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Chapter 3. Concepts
Search Results and ACE Selection
The complete results of a search may be added to the current ACE selection set by checking the Add Results
to Selection
checkbox before starting the search. A subset of the search results may be added to the current
ACE selection set by selecting the desired additions in the search ”Results” list and pressing the Add to
Selection
(
) button. Or, a single entry in the ”Results” list can be double-clicked to add it to the current
selection.
Search Highlights
There is typically a tremendous amount of visualization data available in the
(and to a
lesser extent the
). The granular highlighting allowed by the Search view and the Tcl command
is an attempt to help turn this data into useful information, by enabling the user to find and
focus on specific data in their designs.
By highlighting multiple search result sets in the same or different colors, the user can make desired
information more visible in the graphical views. By selectively un-highlighting smaller (more specific) result
sets (which are a subset of already-highlighted objects), the user may focus in on just the objects that most
interest them.
When used in combination with the layering functionality (see the Layers portion of the toolbox for the
and
) and Selection functionality (see the
as well as the Tcl
commands
and
), the user should be able to achieve a graphical visualization at whatever
granularity they desire.
Note:
The Selection color takes precedence over the Highlight color. If design objects are both
highlighted and selected, they will be painted the selection color (bright green by default)
in the
and
. To see the design objects painted in the
Highlight color, the objects must first be removed from the current Selection set (as shown
in the
See also: the Tcl command
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