Prevent selection
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Is it possible to prevent object/tag plugins from getting selected when clicking on them?
Currently, If I click on let's say object generator plugin, it gets highlighted in the viewport, highlighted in the objects manager and its attributes manager shows on.
I want to change the behavior, so if I have selected another non-plugin object and its attributes managers are visible I want to keep it even if I click the plugin object in the scene or the objects manager. -
Hi @merkvilson ,
If I understand your goal correctly, you would like to have your object/tag plugin being "unselectable" in the object manager, such that any previously selected objects would stay selected. Unfortunately, this is not directly possible. What you would like to have is the same behavior of your plugin like it was on a locked layer. There was already an adjacent discussion about this: How to hide object local coordinates.
However, you can theoretically emulate such behavior by tracking current selection in cinema and catching the event of your plugin being selected. At this point you could "undo" the selection by unselecting your plugin and selecting back what was selected before. However, for that you would need a SceneHook, which is only available in the C++ SDK. What is more, such approach does not sound like something robust and reliable, especially when used with some 3rd party plugins that you're not aware of beforehand.
Cheers,
Ilia
