* 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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/include/BIF_poseobject.h b/source/blender/include/BIF_poseobject.h
index 58c67ff102a..ab96f7ec03e 100644
--- a/source/blender/include/BIF_poseobject.h
+++ b/source/blender/include/BIF_poseobject.h
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ void pose_assign_to_posegroup(short active);
 void pose_remove_from_posegroups(void);
 void pgroup_operation_with_menu(void);
 
+void pose_select_hierarchy(short direction, short add_to_sel);
+
 void pose_select_grouped(short nr);
 void pose_select_grouped_menu(void);