How to select and highlight a SMProxy in paraview?

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Dear ParaView community,

I am implementing a feature to select the whole polydata. In this example, an actor is highlighted by vtkPolyDataSilhouette by left click. I would like to do the same thing in Paraview.

I already implemented the the UI part in pqStandardViewFrameActionsImplementation

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I have a toolbar button inside ViewFrame. If togged, it enters interaction mode and allows me to pick the whole polydata where my cursor location belongs.

My understanding is that in pqRenderViewSelectionReaction.cxx, I need to call status = rmp->SelectActors(region, selectedRepresentations, selectionSources);, where SelectActors() is my own implementation in vtkSMRenderViewProxy which returns selectedRepresentations and selectionSources. But I don’t really understand how to use vtkClientServerStream stream; to return

this->SelectInternal(stream, selectedRepresentations, selectionSources,
    multiple_selections, modifier, select_blocks);

I was hoping that using

vtkNew<vtkPropPicker> picker;
int isPicked = picker->Pick(region[0], region[1], 0, this->GetRenderer());
picker->GetActor();

to get the actor where my cursor location belongs. But I am not sure how to convert this to selectedRepresentations and selectionSources as requested in the pqRenderViewSelectionReaction workflow.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Cam

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