Add state tree params to `addLabel` about molstar HOT 4 OPEN

Hi, more customization options, including deleting the group when it's empty, could definitely be added. If I understand it correctly, you just want the ability to hide the measurements group completely from the state tree?

As for the ability to select the labels after creation: this could be done either by you manually keeping the refs/selectors, or using the tag option on transforms. I think additional options would need to be added to support the latter as well.

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If I understand it correctly, you just want the ability to hide the measurements group completely from the state tree?

Yes, that's right. That would make it so we don't have to manage nodes in the state tree by hand

As for the ability to select the labels after creation: this could be done either by you manually keeping the refs/selectors, or using the tag option on transforms. I think additional options would need to be added to support the latter as well.

My issue is that I don't know how to keep track of the refs, since I don't get a ref returned from addLabel, and if I have multiple, similar labels already in my state tree, then it's hard to distinguish any one of them.

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Ideally, in my case though, we would have the ability to hide Measurements, but not the subsequent Label. That way, when a structure is deleted, the labels get deleted, and there's no leftover nodes in the state tree.

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Maybe you can make a PR which adds the ability to create the measurements group as a ghost cell (perhaps via an option in PluginConfig.Structure) and also returns the corresponding refs from the add label/distance/etc. functions? (Just get the .selector from each of the apply calls there).

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