how to get all active sources (sources selected on pipeline) in python

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hello,

how can i get all the selected sources currently in the pipeline?
i mean if i select box and hold ctr and select sphere, how can i get the two objects on python?
currectly i found GetActiveSource() but this will only return me the last object i clicked, so sphere. is it possible to also get box object? (in the pipeline at least visually it is selected…)

thanks in advance

2

There is only one active source, the last one that was clicked.

The “selected sources” are not a python concept and cannot be recovered, but you can recover any source by name using GetSources()

3

and from GetSources() it is not possible to get the ones that are highlighed?no?

4

I’m afraid not yet, no.

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okey, for anyone that might come in the future looking for a solution to this. as it is not currently implemented and I want to use this for giving two filters selected to python function without having the python objects,

one can use two times GetActiveSource():

#select filter 0 on pipeline
filter0=GetActiveSource()
#select filter 1 on pipeline
filter1=GetActiveSource()
functionRequiringFilters(filter0,filter1)

another way i found easier is to make the functionRequiringFilters to accept strings for each input object and then use FindSource

def functionRequiringFilters(filter0, filter1):

    if isinstance(filter0,str):

        filter0=FindSource(filter0)

    if isinstance(filter1,str):

        filter1=FindSource(filter1)

this at least helps a littlebit more, one can then call the function using the name of the filters