Get info of most recelty created object

[charles-fernandez]

Hi, I'm working on a script that will bring reference objects into a scene, and then manipulate those reference objects. The trick is, I want it to apply to a variety of reference objects, so their names will have to be a variable. Is there a way to get the info of an object, specifically it's name, based on whatever was most recently created?

[joojaa]

Newest object is last in the list. Anyway you can easily do a different trick too make a set and add all nodes to it, then make a new set once you add stuff and take a difference between them. Tough just counting the indexes is enough, and newer mayas have hooks for reference imports but yeah. Sure no problem heres a script form a few years back or so:

global proc makeSetOnImport(){
  $size=size(ls());
  Import;
  $nulist=ls();
  string $return[];
  for ($i=$size;$i<size(ls());$i+=1)
    $return[size($return)]=$nulist[$i];
  sets -n "newItems" $return;
}
 
menuItem -e -c "makeSetOnImport" MayaWindow|mainFileMenu|importFileItem;

It changes the behaviour of import file menuitem so that it makes a set callen newItems that contains all the newly imported items... use to your benefit.

Doesnet seem to work wery well in mayas after 2011 tough so try following instead:

global proc makeSetOnImport(){
  $size=size(ls());
  Import;
  $nulist=ls();
  string $set = `sets -n "newItems" {}`;
  for ($i=$size;$i<size(ls());$i+=1){
      sets  -e -forceElement $set $nulist[$i];
  }
}
 
menuItem -e -c "makeSetOnImport" MayaWindow|mainFileMenu|importFileItem;