Get selected occurrence without interaction

[Anonymous]

Hi,

in a separate window I want to show some properties and information of an selected occurrence in an assembly. How can I get the selected occurence from browser or graphical window?

Is there an event that gives me the selected object? I know that there are SelectEvents from Interaction, but I'd like to do this without interaction because I want to run my window in the background. I think that Interaction is not the right way because it means an active selection for a specific command, but not to capture something from the background.

I have in mind to do this with with a timer that looks for the selected object, but I'm not sure if this is a working solution and would prefer working with some kind of event. Is there something I can use?

Thanks

Andreas

[Balaji_Ram]

Hi Andreas,

The selected browser node can be identified using the following code snippet 

BrowserPane oPane = assyDoc.BrowserPanes["Model"];
            BrowserNode oTopNode = oPane.TopNode;
            foreach (BrowserNode node in oTopNode.BrowserNodes)
            {
                if (node.Selected)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(String.Format("Selected browser node : {0}", node.BrowserNodeDefinition.Label));
                }
            }

For an event, please try using the BrowserPanesEvents. 

You can get hold of it using the Document.BrowserPanes.BrowserPanesEvents.OnBrowserNodeActivate.

Regards,

Balaji

[Anonymous]

Hi Balaji,

thanks for your support. I got the example running and capture the selection with a timer although I would prefer an event.

Unfortunately I don't get the BrowserPaneEvents with the EventWatcher. Whatever I click it seems that the OnBrowserNodeActivate event is not fired.

Regards,

Andreas

[ekinsb · Accepted solution]

You don't need to go through the browser but instead can use the Document.SelectSet property.  This returns a SelectSet object which will contain whatever is currently selected in the document.  There is also an OnChangeSelectSet event that is fired whenever the contents of the selection changes.

[Anonymous]

Hi Brian,

thanks a lot for your assistance. I checked the DocumentEvents.OnChangeSelectSet-Event and this is obviously exactly what I was looking for. Really crazy that I dindn't see the wood for the trees.

Regards,

Andreas