Get Selected Item(s) in Project Panel

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

Going through the examples and documentation, I couldn't find a function or value to tell if a folder or footage item is selected or access that item in the Project Panel of Premiere Pro. Closest thing I found was .select() which only selects the item you have coded. Has anyone had any success with this? Thanks!

[Bruce Bullis]

There is no API around project selections, in current versions of PPro. It's a highly-requested feature.

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

Any updates on this feature implementation? Thanks!

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

While PProPanel now shows how to get a message (and all selected projectItems) every time the project selection changes, getting and setting selection are not yet available.

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

Thanks Bruce Bullis​ this definitely helps! Just to confirm, the app.bind("onSourceClipSelectedInProjectPanel", function()) event is only available in PPRO CC 2018 yea?

[Bruce Bullis]

Correct.

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

And from what I can tell, there's no way to know if nothing is selected in the project panel correct?

I'm basically assigning selected values to a variable to access them whenever I need to, but it seems that the "onSourceClipSelectedInProjectPanel" event doesn't update if everything is deselected. Thanks!

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

Also, I'm only getting up to 2 project item (arguments) at a time from app.bind("onSourceClipSelectedInProjectPanel", function()). Is that a bug, or am I missing something?

[sberic]

The TrackItem type has an isSelected field. You could easily search the timeline when you receive your callbacks for all items where that field returns true to build your own selection set...

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

sberic​ I haven't used TrackItems before. Do they correlate to objects selected in the Project Panel or Timeline? I'm trying to get objects selected in the Project Panel.

[Bruce Bullis]

trackItems = things on a track, in a sequence.

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

That's what I assumed. I'm noticing there's a selected metadata column in the project panel now, but the metadata doesn't seem to update when an item is selected. Is this a way I can access selected items? Bruce Bullis​

[Bruce Bullis]

Not intentionally, no.

We're Working On It™.

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

Okay good to know, thanks for the heads up!

[sberic]

justin2taylor  wrote

sberic  I haven't used TrackItems before. Do they correlate to objects selected in the Project Panel or Timeline? I'm trying to get objects selected in the Project Panel.

Whoops! Right, my bad. Those are Timeline APIs, not Project library.

justin2taylor  wrote

Also, I'm only getting up to 2 project item (arguments) at a time from app.bind("onSourceClipSelectedInProjectPanel", function()). Is that a bug, or am I missing something?

This sounds like it's either a bug or an implementation detail. Perhaps it's related to "itemDeselected" and "itemSelected" parameters? If you select multiple at once (select one and then hold shift while clicking one several items lower), do you get multiple callbacks?

Bruce Bullis​, I checked the What's New in 12.0? list of changes but did not see this API mentioned. Bug? Missed addition?

[asd21ewads]

Almost 6 years later... Are you still working on it? How to select a project item?

[AM-S]

In terms of getting items selected in the project window you can use:

app.getCurrentProjectViewSelection()

In terms of setting, as far as I can see you can only select one project item at a time via:

projectItem.select()​

this selects the projectItem but also deselects any other currently selected items.  The documentation suggests this method is designed for used in conjunction with importing assets into a project.