How to highlight single selected entities?

[DavidGraham]

I'm picking three line entities and then drawing something. I'm using a single selection set multiple times. 

(setq s (ssget "_+.:S:E" '((0 . "LINE"))))

If I were to use a normal selection set the picked lines are redrawn as dashed so you can see your progress.

With multiple single selections apart from the prompts the user will forget how many lines they have picked.

 

Is there a simple way to recreate the highlighting of the entities as they are picked then at the end to remove all the highlights?    

[rlx]

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(redraw [ename [mode]])

ename

Type: ads_name

The name of the entity name to be redrawn.

mode

Type: Integer

Value that controls the visibility and highlighting of the entity. The mode can be one of the following values:

1 -- Show entity

2 -- Hide entity (blank it out)

3 -- Highlight entity

4 -- Unhighlight entity

The use of entity highlighting (mode 3) must be balanced with entity unhighlighting (mode 4).

[dlanorh]

25 minutes ago, DavidGraham said:

I'm picking three line entities and then drawing something. I'm using a single selection set multiple times. 

(setq s (ssget "_+.:S:E" '((0 . "LINE"))))

If I were to use a normal selection set the picked lines are redrawn as dashed so you can see your progress.

With multiple single selections apart from the prompts the user will forget how many lines they have picked.

 

Is there a simple way to recreate the highlighting of the entities as they are picked then at the end to remove all the highlights?    

 

(redraw (ssname ss 0) 3)

 

[DavidGraham]

Thank you, that's just what I wanted.