New! When weight-painting a Mesh, and select a Bone, you can use transform

options on the Bone (G, R, S). The manipulator doesn't show btw.
Is usful to get immediate feedback on how painted weights behave with Bones.

Martin; I had to change the T_POSE behaviour in code a bit... it now
stores in TransInfo the actual posed armature being transformed. Maybe,
some day, we'll get mixed posechannel/object transform? Not much required
at the moment though. :)

source/blender/src/editview.c

@@ -1266,10 +1266,14 @@ void mouse_select(void)
 			}
 			
 			if(has_bones && basact) {
-				if( do_pose_selectbuffer(basact, buffer, hits) ) {	// bone found
+				if( do_pose_selectbuffer(basact, buffer, hits) ) {	// then bone is found
 				
 					/* in weightpaint, we use selected bone to select vertexgroup, so no switch to new active object */
 					if(G.f & G_WEIGHTPAINT) {
+						/* we make the armature selected */
+						basact->flag|= SELECT;
+						basact->object->flag= basact->flag;
+						/* prevent activating */
 						basact= NULL;
 					}
 				}