Mouse Select

I'm planning to write s script like this one, but with ability to select almost all max objects. But, I never use Rhino, so I wander... what is the point of placing mouse pointer over a object and then start the script instead of clickin with LMB to select object under mouse?
Can someone explain me in more details.
Thanks!
:)

The selection in rhino is like this :
when you have many object under mouse pointer and (run the script) it will show a menu with all names of this objects and when you move the pointer over any name in this menu it will select this object without clicking (just hovering the pointer , no need to click), and when you find the right object then you can click on its name and the object will be selected .

Rhino Selection Method .

http://www.fastswf.com/8D51cFo

this script is very important (like selection in Rhino) .
but the difference is, in rhino it select the object when mouse just over the name (no need to click on the name to select object).
The Question is : how to make this script act like in rhino ?
thank you ....

<p>Here is another script to   Here's the markup:            Test new suggest</p>
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.autocomplete.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="suggest-test.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<form method="post"> <label for="artisttext">Artist</label><br>
<p><input id="artisttext" class="auto" name="artist" type="text"><!-- p--></p>
<p><input name="submitform" value="Submit" type="submit"></p>
</form>
<p>And the script: $(document).ready(function() {         $('#artisttext').autocomplete('suggest-test.php', {extraParams: {p1: 'as'} });         $('.auto').setOptions({minChars: 2, delay: 200, max: 50}); });  

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Hi John! Firstly thank you for this script.

I found some workaround to select all kind of objects with your script - instead of using InteresectRay try to use fencePickNode with two point array and crossing parameter set to true - this will select all objects under the picked point.

Yes, it selects objects only if you pick on a wireframe since this little "fence" should cross some line of the object, just if you select with Fence selection in wireframe viewport mode.

Also, if you don't mind, I would like to make some modification to your code to have objects selected not by clicking on a menuitems but just hovering over them (if it is possible at all) - the way the Rhino modeler lets you select objects in the viewports.

Here's the chunk of code to select objects by fencePickNode:

pickedPoint = #escape

tool pickOnePoint
(
	on mousePoint click_no do
	(
		if click_no == 1 then
			pickedPoint = viewPoint
	)
)

point_1 = [0,0]
point_2 = [0,0]

print "pick a point"
pick_result = startTool pickOnePoint numPoints:1
if pick_result != undefined and pick_result != #abort and pick_result != #escape then
(

	point_1 = pickedPoint + 2		--this makes little diagonal streak out of picked point
	point_2 = pickedPoint - 2

	fencePickNode #(point_1, point_2) crossing:true
)

In reply to Sergos' post.

Are you still planning on making the amendments to this script as you have described?

Also, could you please tell me how I can incorporate the chunk of code to select objects by fencePickNode into this script?

Thanks

Really cool, but a bit slow on big scenes , so bad it is when I use it :-)
Hope we can select one day all object types ! Thanks.

This is great for Rhino3D users...same type of selector dialog.

got to bump this excellent script which makes up for max's appalling selection tool