Get selected art object

[Kenji85]

I am trying to get the user selected art object properties, I tried written the code below and realised this get all the objects in the layer and store all of them in the AIArtHandle instead of what I selected. I only want to print out the one user selected, how??? any help???

AIMatchingArtSuite *aiArtMatch;
sBasic->AcquireSuite( kAIMatchingArtSuite, kAIMatchingArtSuiteVersion, (const void**)&aiArtMatch );
AIArtHandle **artStore = NULL;
long artCount = 0;
aiArtMatch->GetSelectedArt(&artStore, &artCount);

AIArtHandle my_artHandle = (*artStore)[0];

[A. Patterson]

I believe the problem you're having is that selection 'climbs upwards'. That is, if you select some art you also select it's parent, and its parent's parent, etc.

So even if you just select a single path, you're also selecting the group that represents the layer. As such, you might be able to just ask the art if it's a layer group using AIArtSuite::IsArtLayerGroup() and ignore it if it is. I believe the rest will be an accurate depiction of what's selected, be it on art or many.

Oh, and if the art you've selected is a compound path, that call will also include all the sub-component paths. If you don't want them, you can also ask each art in your set if it's part of a compound path by using AIArtSuite::GetArtUserAttr() with kArtPartOfCompound; I believe you can ignore anything that has that, though I'm not sure how it responds when you pass it the container kCompoundPathArt.

Hope that helps!

[Kenji85]

Yes, you are correct, and your proposed solution work well, thanks.

[kundank57145709]

Can you send me the exact code for get selected art object.

Regards

Kundan