[Bf-python] Ask for: link/append/import returns object(s) instance(s)

[Martin Poirier]

The link and append operators set the selection to the objects that were added. (the active object isn't changed though, careful with that.)

A complete solution (a low level api call) should return all the added datablocks (dependencies and all, not just top level objects) so you can detect all new items.

Martin

--- On Tue, 5/24/11, Pierrick Koch <pierrick.koch at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Pierrick Koch <pierrick.koch at gmail.com>
Subject: [Bf-python] Ask for: link/append/import returns object(s) instance(s)
To: robotics at blender.org, bf-python at blender.org
Received: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 12:52 AM

Hi everyone, 
I am looking for a Python method to link/append/import objects in Blender that would give me back some info about what has been appended (in the best case a list of the imported objects instances)... 


For instance: let say that in a .blend file I have a car made of the main structure which contain 4 wheels. Code:bpy.ops.wm.link_append(directory="/home/pierrick/atrv.blend/Object", link=False, 

  files=[{'name': 'ATRV'}, {'name': 'Wheel.4'}, {'name': 'Wheel.3'}, {'name': 'Wheel.2'}, {'name': 'Wheel.1'}])


if there was already an object called ATRV, my car will be renamed ATRV.001, it would be nice to get an instance of the objects, to avoid pasing by bpy.data.object 
Same with collada: it would be amazing if: 

Code:bpy.ops.wm.collada_import(filepath="/home/pierrick/atrv.dae")
could return something like: Code:you_just_imported = {   'ATRV': [ 

    'Wheel1',     'Wheel2',     'Wheel3',     'Wheel4'   ] }

Where the string are the real-name of the object in the Blender instance. 

With .001 if there was already another object with the same name in the scene. 
... In fact, I'm working on Robotics http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Robotics:Contents 

https://github.com/pierriko/morse/blob/master/src/morse/builder/morsebuilder.py#L61 https://github.com/pierriko/morse/blob/master/examples/morse/scenarii/ros_example.py 

http://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse ... 
Any idea? shall I open an issue for that? Cheers,


Pierrick
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