Can An Object Know About Itself?

[Phil Davis]

Scott,

'the selectedObjects' function returns a list of all objects selected at a given 
time. I suppose an object could poll it (send in time) and do an action when it 
finds it's long ID is no longer listed.

That's probably the hard way, but food for thought.

Phil Davis



On 3/1/12 10:48 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> Is there any way for an object to know when it is unselected using only
> scripts within the object itself?
>
> The selectedObjectChanged is sent to an object when it is selected, but when
> the object is deselected, the object will only get the selectedObjectChanged
> message if the selection is changed to nothing.  Is there some way for the
> object to know it is no longer selected without resorting to an external
> script? (no front, back, card or stack).
>
> I have a group of objects that needs to reorganize itself when it is
> deselected, but I'd like to avoid using external scripts to do this so the
> object is easily portable.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
>
>
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