Here's a complete picking working example:
https://github.com/philogb/philogl/tree/master/examples/picking
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Nicolas Garcia Belmonte - http://philogb.github.com/
The example seems to be working fine to me. I tested Chrome and FF4 on
a Max OSX. What browser/OS are you using? Also, are you trying the
example with the official 1.1.0 version or you downloaded the master
branch to test the example?
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