Constellation: any way to get equivalent of the selectedObject?

Jerry Daniels jerry at daniels-mara.com
Thu Oct 20 13:39:12 EDT 2005


David,

First of all, the feature "no-click" inspection is a feature of  
Inspection Gadget which works with either Constellation OR the Rev  
script/prop editors.

We USED TO select the object during no-click inspection--if the  
pointer was chosen.

However: that became problematic because the user didn't explicitly  
select the object and sometimes said user took subsequent actions to  
do something to the selected object they hadn't intended--like delete  
it with an accidental backspace or something!

SO...now we don't select the object during no-click inspection, but  
there are three clear indications as to the identity of the current  
object you're working IF you're using Constellation:

1. The TITLE of Constellation's window has the full name of the  
object you're editing.
2. The TAB that is dedicated to that object has the name of the object
3. The PREVIEW (or copy) of the object is shown

We figured after all that, it wasn't necessary to select the object  
during no-click inspection and risk the user forgetting that the  
object WAS selected.

Hope that helps.

Jerry

http://www.daniels-mara.com/products/constellation.htm
Scripts and properties in a tabbed editor!

On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:30 PM, David Bovill wrote:

> Like the fact you can work with objects without actually selecting  
> themn.... but how can you determine which object is "selected" from  
> constellation from a script? In a bit of a consternation over this?
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