GEORGE : Layer selection Topic is solved

[schwarzgrau]

It would be pretty nice, if you could get the information which layers are selected in George. Also it could be pretty handy if you could select multiple layers in it.

[Gary]

Bumping this request because some tools artists here have requested are entirely impossible without being able to detect multiple selected layers with George.

[NathanOtano]

Can't you just run on all the layers with tv_layerinfo to check which are selected and put that in a list of variables to interact with? It's less handy that the command you want but such a command would be weird to use. How much variables would you get? How do you code that on your scripts?

[Gary]

I didn't realise LayerInfo had that info (in fact I didn't realise it could be called on a layer that wasn't the current layer). Thanks for the tip!

I suppose you have a point about how it'd be represented. I forget that George commands can only return simple data structures even though you can make tables/arrays yourself.

[NathanOtano]

Nice

You can also create a function for the whole process in one command and share it here hehe

[Gary]

I have!

I'm sure there's improvements that could be made (like a better way to iterate over layers) but this does the job for me. Here's the function:

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FUNCTION get_selected()
    select_count = 0
    FOR id = 1 to 10000
        tv_LayerInfo id
        PARSE result layerDisplay layerPosition layerOpacity layerName layerType layerStart layerEnd layerPrelighttable layerPostlighttable selected x
        IF (CMP(selected,'1') == 1)
            select_count = select_count + 1
            selected[select_count] = id
        END
    END
    return selected
END

Also some sample usage:

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get_selected()
selected = result

FOR x = 1 to select_count
    tv_warn "ID"selected[x]
END

[Hironori Takagi]

The layerselection item in tv_layerinfo is not listed on tvpaintwiki, but it is described in the TVPaint 11 Documentation published last year.

https://www.tvpaint.com/doc/tvpaint-ani ... _layerinfo

[NathanOtano]

Nice thanks