MEL is it possible to select face ring based on one user selected face?

malcolm

I thought this would be easy, but I was totally wrong. Is there a way to get a ring of faces in mel, I figured out how to get an edge ring, but not a face ring. Pickwalk can do it, but that requires the user to select two faces where I only want the user to have to select one.

onionhead_o

i would imagine something along the lines of

select edge ring > convert to face selection in the code?

malcolm

Damn, yeah I tried that, but I want the user to start with selecting a single face. If I start with face, then convert to edge, then edge ring, then faces again it will create a cross shaped selection rather than a single ring selection.