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Temporary highlight

Is there a way to find out the dbid of an object that's temporary highlighted? If yes, how - thanks!

Silver John over 14 years ago

Get all objects, check theirs with axlIsHighlighted() function, then check for color is used for temporary highlighting (how get temporary highlight color I don't know).
Or may be highlighted objects are in the select set? Try getting select set.
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Khurana over 14 years ago

I invoked axlIsHighlighted() on highlighted symbols and it returned nil...same for symbols that were assigned a color using Display > Assign Color command - any other ideas?
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Randy R over 14 years ago

Try what Silver John said at the end, get the select set; axlGetSelSet().
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Silver John over 14 years ago

Yes, my mistake.

axlIsHighlighted

Description
If the object is permanently highlighted returns the highlight color; otherwise nil.
And this work for permanently highlighted objects.
<code>

; permanent highlight any symbol using Display > Assign Color (I use yellow)
axlSetFindFilter(?enabled '(GROUPS SYMBOLS PINS VIAS TEXT NAMEFORM ) ?onButtons '(SYMBOLS)) ; filter
axlSelect(?groupMode nil ?prompt nil)
; now select symbol
_selectedObjects = axlGetSelSet() ;
; now _selectedObjects contains LIST of objects
axlIsHighlighted(_selectedObjects)
; -> nil
axlIsHighlighted(car(_selectedObjects))
; -> 8
; now we have object id in _selectedObjects. Exit from any commands, deselect any objects
axlIsHighlighted(car(_selectedObjects))
; -> 8
</code>
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Silver John over 14 years ago

2 Randy
In idle state we can select any objects, and they are be highlighted but not in the select set.
2 Khurana
What is your final goal?
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