Hello,
is it possible to get the Layer which is currently selected?
LayerManager.current
This just gives me the current active layer.
But i want that layer which i just have selected in the layer manager.
I don’t think it’s currently possible… Annoyingly
it’s possible with extra assembly.
get LayerManager dialog HWND
find SysListView32 child (should be the first)
using SendMessage:
- get total number of items
- go through all of them and find selected
- get text of selected items for first column
so it’s doable. but question is – why do you need to know selected layer?
Thanks.
But I figured it out:
tmp = SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()
layer = tmp.SelectedItems()
layer[1].name
Edit:
@denis
I am currently working on a little renaming tool for our studio.
So it is very handy, to be able to rename a layer and its nodes by selecting it and pressing a button.
Scene Explorer is not the same as Layer Manager. I don’t know how you can get selected layer from using scene explorer selection
Yes very strange indeed.
That’s how i came upon this:
If I rightclick on a layer in the layer manager and click “select child nodes”, following macro will execute:
macros.run "Scene Explorer" "SESelectChildren"
Then I looked up that macro script:
macroScript SESelectChildren
category:~SCENEEXPLORER_GROUP~
internalCategory: "Scene Explorer" --LOC_NOTES: do not localize this
toolTip:~SEQ_SELECT_CHILDREN_TT~ --LOC_NOTES: localize this
ButtonText:~SEQ_SELECT_CHILDREN~ --LOC_NOTES: localize this
(
on isVisible do (
sceneExplorerInstance = SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()
return ( sceneExplorerInstance != undefined )
)
on isEnabled do (
sceneExplorerInstance = SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()
if (sceneExplorerInstance == undefined) then return false
count = (sceneExplorerInstance.SelectedItems()).Count
return ( (sceneExplorerInstance != undefined) and ( count > 0) )
)
on execute do
(
sceneExplorerInstance = SceneExplorerManager.GetActiveExplorer()
sceneExplorerInstance.SelectChildren()
)
)
So it seems like Autodesk is using the SceneExplorer to access the layer manager as well.
Whatever it’s working.
Is this 3dsmax 2015 or before?
Oh, your are right.
It’s just working in Max 2015
Yes they completely re-wrote the Layer Manager system in 2015.
You can check out my Layer Explorer extension.