FWIW,
I just installed them. Indeed the "select lock" issues are gone it seems. The new flashing hourglass is sort of funny looking (you see this now when sketch items are selected and you move w/spaceball). However, at least you can select and move now. I have no idea how well these...
I would like to check to see if an object selected is a component or a sub-asm via the API. I am having no luck. Things I think should work don't seem to. The following is really annoying:
retval = Component2.GetChildren ()
If this assembly component is a part document, SolidWorks returns NULL...