I want to use and edittext box for the user to type an object’s prefix in and feed the output to a collection.
In the following I use – Objs = for o in $Zip_L* collect o – to collect object with a predefined name.
Any help would be gratefully received
simplified version of the script is below
rollout RLT_selectTest “Select and move an object set”
(
group “Set Up”
(
edittext prefixMyObjs “Name prefix:” fieldWidth:50 text: “Zip_L_”
)
button BTN_moveUs “Move Us”
on BTN_moveUs pressed do
(
Objs = for o in $Zip_L* collect o
for o in Objs do
(
FirstFrame = 1
SecndFrame = 10
addnewkey o.pos.controller FirstFrame
addnewkey o.pos.controller SecndFrame
o.pos.controller.Z_Position.controller.keys[1].value = (random 0 500)
)
)
)
createDialog RLT_selectTest width:250 height:75
Change “Objs = for o in $Zip_L* collect o” to “Objs = for o in objects where matchPattern o.name pattern:(prefixMyObjs.text + “*”) collect o”.
That should get the objects whose names start with whatever is typed in the editText field, if I understand what you’re trying to do correctly.
(execute (“$’” + prefixMyObjs.text + “’*”)) as array
for large scenes it’s much faster then do it through a loop…
Took this newby a few seconds to realise I had to arrange it like this –
Objs = (execute (“$’” + prefixMyObjs.text + “’*”)) as array
for o in Objs do ()
But now it looks obvious.
Thanks again
thanks denisT
I’ve tried JHaywood’s solution and it works just fine.
But I’ll give your version a try anyway just for good practice
Cheers