Highlighter tool on nodes in model

[Seadna]

I'm trying something different. I certainly cannot figure out how to get the highlighter to highlight sub-nodes (so far).

Can I use the pick function instead? How can I use pick() when wearing an Oculus Rift? I can use it with my mouse on screen in the tutorial but when combined with my vizconnect configuration on Oculus I do not have a mouse pointer. Can i do this with an arrow similar to the laser pointer tool? How can this be implemented is there any example code?

As usual any help is much appreciated!

[Erikvdb]

Highlighter works, you just need to declare the sub-nodes as objects.

gallery = viz.addChild('gallery.ive')
nodes = {}

for name in gallery.getNodeNames():
    node = gallery.getChild(name) #create child object
    nodes[node] = name #store in dict with its name

from tools import highlighter
tool = highlighter.Highlighter()
tool.setItems(nodes.keys())

def onHighlight(e):
    if e.new in nodes:
        print '{} is highlighted'.format(nodes[e.new])

viz.callback(highlighter.HIGHLIGHT_EVENT,onHighlight)

There might be an easier way to get the node name from the selected object so you don't need to store it in a dictionary, but hey.