[Bf-committers] access selection order via Python

[Martin Pyka]

hi everybody,

thx for the suggestions. Yes, all available ways are right now, somehow 
a workaround for this missing feature.

Here is a summary of the current debate:
Two tools use workarounds to make this feature available [1, 2], I could 
need it for my own addon [3], there are vivid discussions about that 
issue [4, 5] and even somebody submitted this as a bug report years ago [6].

I think this shows, that there *is* a general need for these information 
and a generic applicability. Now, I am wondering, how difficult is it to 
implement it and what must happen in order to get this feature request 
approved for one of the next releases?!

Thanks a lot already for the many nice responses,
Best,
Martin

Links:
[1] 
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?221213-Tools-for-curves&highlight=mackraken
[2] 
https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation-nodes/blob/master/utils/mn_selection_utils.py
[3] https://bitbucket.org/rub-hippo/parametric-anatomical-modeling
[4] 
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?241524-respect-selection-order
[5] 
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?363745-How-to-get-selection-order
[6] https://developer.blender.org/T21703





Am 27.02.2015 12:00, schrieb bf-committers-request at blender.org:
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] access selection order via Python (Ton
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> Just an idea: perhaps you can get this selection order information if
> you analyze the contents of the undo buffer.
>
> Bests,
> Fazek