Learning to Script

[Diurno]

Hi all, i want to learn a little bit of scripting (i'm triyng VB) and for the first try i want to do a little script that takes the Selected Object and Extract all his polygon in separated object; so i've wrote this:

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i = 1
Do
SelectPolygonFilter
SelectGeometryComponents "sphere.poly[1]"
ExtractFromComponents "ExtractPolygonsOp", , "polymsh_detached", True, siImmediateOperation, siKeepGenOpInputs
i = i + 1
Loop Until i = 100

[/b] (here i can increase the number as i wish)

now the problem is: the script works only if the object name is "sphere", so i ask if you know what is the command for "get the name of the selected object".

edit: I placed the code inbetween

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[origin]

application.selection

see manual: c# and scripting reference->objects->S->Selection

or

http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/ind ... :Scripting

or videos about scripting from Letterbox viewtopic.php?f=5&p=993#p993

[septopus]

slow on large objs.....

mad slow

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var oSel = selection(0);
var oPoly = oSel.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.facets;
SetSelFilter("Polygon");
for (var i = 0; i<oPoly.count; i++){
SelectGeometryComponents(oPoly(i));
ExtractFromComponents("ExtractPolygonsOp")
}

[Hirazi Blue]

@septopus - Just a friendly suggestion: when dealing with scripting newbies,
it might be helpful to add the scripting language your code snippet is written in...
In the above case it seems to be javascript, if I am not horribly mistaken...
;)