btw, when you select an object, by default it will highlight the entire hierarchy as you already know. Now, if you press the down arrow after that, you'll highlight only the parent object. Well, in fact you are selecting the parent shape node, not the transform node. But visually it does the job if that's what you're looking for.
The selection child highlighting option is a 2014 new option afaik. Martin On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Peter Agg <[email protected]> wrote: > *Did you try Preferences \ Display \ Affected highlighting ?* > > > Martin wins himself a virtual beer! That does the job, combined with the > option that Eric shows above: Now when I select something only the thing I > clicked on changes colour. > > One more small step. :) > > >

