How To Properly Set Filter For The Mselectionlist

[yunjun]

Hi, if I want to select both nurbsCurves and nurbsSurfaces from the active list, I can do :

CODE
MSelectionList selection;
MGlobal::getActiveSelectionList( selection );

MItSelectionList iter( selection);
iter.setFilter(MFn::kNurbsSurface);
for (iter.reset(); !iter.isDone(); iter.next() )
do something

iter.setFilter(MFn::kNurbsCurve);
for (iter.reset(); !iter.isDone(); iter.next() )
do the same things

you can see I have to use 2 loops to do the same things and it makes my code look horrible especially when the code is long. Is there a way to select both nurbsCurves and nurbsSurfaces at the same time? thanks!

[daniel-faust]

How about
CODE
MSelectionList myList;
MDagPath mdpPath;

MSelectionList selection;
MGlobal::getActiveSelectionList( selection );

MItSelectionList iter( selection);
iter.setFilter(MFn::kNurbsSurface);
for (iter.reset(); !iter.isDone(); iter.next() ) {
  iter.getDagPath(mdpPath);
  myList.add(mdpPath);
}

iter.setFilter(MFn::kNurbsCurve);
for (iter.reset(); !iter.isDone(); iter.next() ) {
  iter.getDagPath(mdpPath);
  myList.add(mdpPath);
}

MItSelectionList myIter(myList);
for (myList.reset(); !myList.isDone(); myList.next() ) {

}

[yunjun]

This looks pretty compact, thanks! I was searching in the documentation to find a straightforward answer, but ignored to think out of a smart way to walk around it! thanks!