How to get currently selected item (1 Viewer)

[Shukuyen]

Hi,

I want to get the label string of the item currently selected in the GUI in my process plugin. I suppose there is a way to do it (MiniDisplay does it I guess), but I couldn't figure out how.

Any hints?

Thanks,
Shukuyen.

 

[catavolt]

AW: How to get currently selected item

Try #selecteditem

 

[Shukuyen]

AW: How to get currently selected item

Thanks for the answer catavolt, but that doesn't seem to be it. When navigating around in Basic Home and logging GUIPropertyManager.GetProperty("#selecteditem") it always is an empty string ...

edit: ok, did some more testing ... #selecteditem is filled sometimes, an alternative seems to be #highlightedbutton. But both don't seem to be consistent :-S

 

[pilehave]

The screen you are navigating has to set #selecteditem for you to catch it. Take a look at how MiniDisplay is working. #selecteditem should really only be filled when navigating a facadeview, like a list or thumbnails (IMHO anyways).

 

[Shukuyen]

AW: How to get currently selected item

I tried to figure out how MiniDisplay does it yesterday, but to be honest I can't even find the method in the code where it is done ... this is way beyond me. In my plugin I am now checking #selecteditem, if this is empty I take #highlightedbutton. Not the best way I guess, but I will see how this works.