[Closed] select xref'd scene by parentnode

Hi Equinoxx,

Just had a random play with your idea. I dont know if it is possible to manipulate the selection in the XRef scene dialogue, and unfortunately I dont have time to look into it. So I wrote a little macro that if you run with any selection it will sort through the selection and report back the name of any binding objects, along with their XREF Names and the position that they will appear in the XRef Dialogue UI.

It simply prints this info out into the listener.

macroScript BindObjectInfo category:"XRef Games"
(


--Small Script to Flick through XRefs and Find Binding Box 
local XCount = xrefs.getXRefFileCount()
local XBinds =  getcurrentselection()
local XREFNames = #()


for i = 1 to XCount do 
	(
	CurrXRef = xrefs.getXRefFile i
	append XREFNames CurrXRef.filename
	)

sort XREFNames

for i = 1 to XCount do 
	(
	CurrXRef = xrefs.getXRefFile i
	
	for o in XBinds do
		(
		if o == CurrXRef.parent do
			(
			Print ("BIND OBJECT : " + o.name + "   XREF : " + CurrXRef.filename + "     LIST POSITION : " + (FindItem XREFNames CurrXRef.filename) as string)
			)
		)
	)

)--BindObjectInfo

I apologise if this is entirely useless, but if you can find the command to influence the selection in the XREF Dialog then all the info you will need is here to make that selection…

Hope it helps,

Rich

it helps me somewhat in understanding the relations.
I’m still trying to find out if there’s a way to access the xRef scene dialog with maxscript

in the meanwhile, I just modified your script to set the enabled status

 
for i = 1 to XCount do
(
CurrXRef = xrefs.getXRefFile i
append XREFNames CurrXRef.filename
)
 
sort XREFNames
 
for i = 1 to XCount do
(
CurrXRef = xrefs.getXRefFile i
for o in XBinds do
	(
	if o == CurrXRef.parent do
	 (
	 CurrXRef.disabled = not CurrXRef.disabled -- toggle
	 )
	)
)

I’d still like to know is it’s somehow possible the way I first intended.
By having it bring up the xref scenes dialogue with the correct xrefs preselected.