Selection Info Help

[MitchPflederer]

Correct me if I'm wrong, PowerMill has a list of entities that are selected in the window, I'm not talking about the explorer, but in the window. there must be an object with lists of what is actively selected. line segments, toolpath segments, boundary segments, model surfaces, ect. otherwise how would it know what to delete when you "delete selected entities".

how do i access these objects or lists in a macro? 

for example; I want to know the index numbers of the selected boundary segments on my screen and do work with and to it like find its length and then delete lengths that differ.

[TK.421]

Excellent question!

[icse]

not a very nice solution but anyway:

this gives you an array of the 'components', selected parts '1' not selected parts '0'

FORM TPLIST
bool array $selectedParts[] = selected_list_rows('TPList.TPListView')

then you can select / delete / reorder them with commands like:

EDIT TPSELECT ; TPLIST UPDATE\r 3 NEW
EDIT TPSELECT ; TPLIST UPDATE\r 9 TOGGLE
EDIT TOOLPATH REORDER MOVE_DOWN
DELETE TOOLPATH ; SELECTED

you also can read the values from the columns and rows:

FORM TPLIST
string $value = list_cell_value('TPList.TPListView', 1, 1)

You can finde more in the documentaion: Functions / Widget Functions

[MitchPflederer]

that's very helpful. but not exactly what I'm looking for I'm looking for the one level above that. but now I'm wondering if there is no separate objects list of things that are selected.