Cinema 4D Set New Selection 1.2

Thanks for uploading Daniel!

Fantastic this has been annoying me so much  it should be like this in c4d by default. Thanks a lot

Hello,

Is this compatible with R23? I get errors I think and script is greyed out!

Cheers

15 minutes ago, thanulee said:

Hello,

Is this compatible with R23? I get errors I think and script is greyed out!

Cheers

Please check the details. It mentions:

"Does probably work with R16 - R21, not sure about S22, will definitely not work with R23. "

Oh sorry I got confused cause I was looking at another script.
Is there a possibility to update it for R23?
Its a great addition!

Many thanks!

Oh now i know why i got confused about versions, i was also checking the ringloop!
U have 2 amazing utilitie plugins  cheers

21 hours ago, thanulee said:

Oh now i know why i got confused about versions, i was also checking the ringloop!
U have 2 amazing utilitie plugins  cheers

2 ... and all the other ones!

This script has now been updated to be compatible with Python 3.7, which is used in R23.

Note that next time you have a problem, it would be handy to copy the error from the console and paste it here.

This would allow to investigate the issue. It seems this was a quick fix, as the "print" command in Python 3.7 requires parenthesis.

No other changes required.

Enjoy the update!

Wow you are a beast mate!! Many thanks!!

ps. I ll take a look on the rest of ur plugins/scripts probably i am not aware of these. 

yet another great functionality, thank you dast.

Small update for this script, as I kept hitting a wall when using this.

In previous versions the behaviour was such that the currently selected selection tags were left as is, and the newly created selection tag was not selected. This in order to mimick the original "set selection" behaviour.

However, in recent times I found that behaviour working against me. So, I have now updated the script to deselect all previous selection tags and select the newly created one.

But I have made sure a user can simply revert to the old behaviour by opening the script in the editor, and replacing a single piece of text.

For the new behaviour, leave line 10 as is:

gSelectNewTag = True

For the old behaviour, simply replace "True" by "False":

gSelectNewTag = False

New version 1.1 uploaded !

Man! This is so embarrassing ...

I never realized I hadn't completed the functionality for points and edges.

Up to now I only needed the script for polygon selections, and all was fine.

The other day I needed to create edge and point selection ... and nothing worked. Whaaat !?

Uploaded version 1.2 with completed functionality for polygons, edges, points. There you go!

Sorry for the inconvenience. Soooo embarrassing!

This script is great. I'm using c4d r21, everything is fine but when I set this tool as a icon in my viewport, my render view does not work. I'm using the script v1.2.

9 hours ago, cashmember said:

... when I set this tool as a icon in my viewport, my render view does not work. I'm using the script v1.2.

Sorry, cannot reproduce the problem.

Tried with R21.207, render view works fine using Ctrl-R shortcut, or pressing the icon.

I have captured a video about this, maybe a bug, I don't know 

I still don't know what is difference with orginal one ? It has exactly the same behavior

15 hours ago, Smolak said:

I still don't know what is difference with orginal one ? It has exactly the same behavior

(as mentioned in the details-tab)

When a selection tag is active the native "Set Selection" command will store the selection in that active selection tag.

The "Set New Selection" presented here will ALWAYS create a new selection tag before storing the selection.

This prevents from accidentally overwriting your selected tag.

The native "Store Selection" command ALWAYS create new seletion tag even if it is selected. To overwrite current seletion tag you must hold Shift.

This behaviour was introduced with S24

2 minutes ago, bezo said:

This behaviour was introduced with S24

And probably the old one "Set Selection" was gone because I can't find it in R25. For my workflow the old one behavior was better. Is there way to simulate "holding shift" key in script ?

13 hours ago, Smolak said:

Is there way to simulate "holding shift" key in script ?

You could open the script log and check what command is performed when using the "Store Selection" with and without holding shift key.

You can then create a script that checks for the shift key being pressed, and call one or the other by copying the line of code that the script log shows you.

I don't have S24 or above, so cannot test this out for you.

Following script tests the shift key:

import c4d

def main():
    # check for shift-key being pressed
    result = c4d.BaseContainer()
    if c4d.gui.GetInputState(c4d.BFM_INPUT_KEYBOARD, c4d.KEY_SHIFT, result):
        if result.GetBool(c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE):
            print("shift was pressed")
        else:
            print("shift was not pressed")

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

5 hours ago, dast said:

You could open the script log and check what command is performed when using the "Store Selection" with and without holding shift key.

 

 

 

Thank you for information. I tried this before and unfortunately it has the same command with shift pressed or not :

On 5/31/2021 at 8:58 AM, cashmember said:

... when I set this tool as a icon in my viewport, my render view does not work. I'm using the script v1.2.

The problem is related to the "def state():" part in the script.

MAXON confirmed there is a bug in their Python script handling, this will be fixed in an upcoming update of Cinema4D. Most certainly R25 and above only, I am afraid.

One workaround is to remove the whole "def state():" function from the script ... or not dock the script icon into your layout.

On 11/6/2021 at 8:30 PM, Smolak said:

And probably the old one "Set Selection" was gone because I can't find it in R25. For my workflow the old one behavior was better. Is there way to simulate "holding shift" key in script ?

The new "Store Selection" uses the same command ID as the old "Set Selection".

My guess is that MAXON has simply renamed and reimplemented the old command with the new behaviour.

I have provided here a script which mimics the old behaviour.

Have not tested on S24 or above.

Enjoy!

Set Selection (legacy).zip

It works as overwriting only, doesn't create new selection tag.

Thank you very much !

Is there way to have dialog box opened in new window to set name of newly created selection tag ?