Switch to object mode

[brubin]

string $selection[] = `ls -sl`;
changeSelectMode -object;
select -r $selection;



ls -sl also returns components if components is what you have selected, so i believe -coming from a selection of let's say vertices would return a list of vertices for $selection, then you change to objectMode only to going back to selecting those components you remembered before. that doesnot make a lot of sense, if forcing objectMode at all cost is what you want/need.


if (!`selectMode -q -object`)
setSelectMode("object", "Objects") ;


will help you force objectMode where it's not prevailing.
but:
if you're in hilite-mode this will not help.

so it should be like this:

{
string $nodes[] = `selectedNodes` ; // gives you the names of dependency nodes on the active list, so if you if you have vertices of "sphere1" selected it will return "sphere1"
select -d `ls -sl` ; // deselect the vertices
hilite -unHilite $nodes ; // unHilite
select -r $nodes ; // select

// force objectMode
if (!`selectMode -q -object`)
setSelectMode("object", "Objects") ;
}


HIH
s.

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