* Armature hierarchy selection tools

These are for use in pose mode or armature edit mode, to let you quickly traverse up and down a chain of bones. 
It's quite useful for bones that are in hard-to-click places.

The tools are:
*Select parent/child ( [ and ] )
selects the parent or child of the active bone, deselecting the original active bone

* Extend select parent/child (shift [ and shift ] )
selects the parent or child of the active bone, adding to the selection

Thanks to Joshua for reviewing this so promptly!

PS. I'd like to use these [ and ] keys more widely in blender as consistent 'select next / previous' tools. I can imagine it being very useful for a lot of things like keyframes, nodes, mesh edges, etc.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/include/BIF_editarmature.h b/source/blender/include/BIF_editarmature.h
index da98eb3d4f1..13c16749612 100644
--- a/source/blender/include/BIF_editarmature.h
+++ b/source/blender/include/BIF_editarmature.h
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ void	mouse_armature(void);
 void	remake_editArmature(void);
 void	selectconnected_armature(void);
 void	selectconnected_posearmature(void);
-void	select_bone_parent(void);
+void	armature_select_hierarchy(short direction, short add_to_sel);
+
 void	setflag_armature(short mode);
 void    unique_editbone_name (struct ListBase *ebones, char *name);
 
@@ -143,6 +144,10 @@ void	set_locks_armature_bones(short lock);
 
 #define BONESEL_NOSEL	0x80000000	/* Indicates a negative number */
 
+/* used in bone_select_hierachy() */
+#define BONE_SELECT_PARENT	0
+#define BONE_SELECT_CHILD	1
+
 #endif