Selecting components in 16.0+ with SKILL

 Hi all,

Part 1:

 I needed to allow the user to select a component from the PCB and I elected to use:

 comp = car(axlGetSelSet(axlSingleSelectPoint()))

I see from this post www.cadence.com/.../7432.aspx that Dave used

axlSelect( ?groupMode nil ?prompt "Please Select Component" )
component_dbid = axlGetSelSet() 

Both would seem to get the job done, so what are the tradeoffs for these different methods? Is there an even more prefered method for user selection of components? Or are the above six to one, half a dozen to the other?

Now to part 2:

 Although both of these methods work, it almost 'feels' like you're doing something wrong since you don't get the pre-selection highlight, which is default in 16.0+ and seems natural when the cursor is over an element. Is there some way to make the elements (in this case components) highlight temporarily as I hover over the element while running a SKILL program? Everything I can find will highlight after the component is selected, and searching for "preselect" and "pre-select" in the forums didn't turn up any answers.