Best guess at active user selection
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Hey all thanks for taking the time to read my post.
I'm making a renaming tool and we'd like it to change context based on the user's last selection. The three modes would be: object manager, takes manager, material manager.
Ideally I'd like the mode to change if the user is hovering over one of these three managers but from what I've been told that isn't possible. So my thought for now is to poll c4d for changes in selections at regular intervals. Is this the best way to go about something like this?
Thanks again for reading,
Cheers,
Andy -
Apologies for the terrible title.
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Hi @muckymouse ,
See wonderful answer from @ferdinand : Can I get active things order with python?
Hope this can helps.
Cheers~
DunHou -
Hi Andy,
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About your First Question
Yes, unfortunately it's not possible to catch the "hover" event as there's no such event. So yes, you're right, you can somehow emulate the desired behavior.
The suggestion for that would be to work with Core Messages, namely do your stuff (i.e. change the mode) as a reaction on catching the EVMSG_CHANGE message.
For checking the selections part, you can refer to the DunHou's pointer to the Ferdinand's script.
Cheers,
Ilia
