Better method for getting actively selected items in and out of edit contexts?

[Juliensv]

Hello all, 

 

For a couple years I've been having to make my own functions for returning the handles of actively selected objects, regardless of the current edit context the user is in.

 

It involves creating a waldo (which I hate) to find out whether the user is just in a layer or editing a group, or symbol or plug-in. Then either using FSObject, FinGroup, FinSymDef, or Fin3D to run through the items in that container and find which are selected.

 

This feels so clunky to me, and it is surprising to me that there is not a built-in function to accomplish this, especially as this is something that many built-in commands do (Edit or transform only objects which are selected).

 

I guess my ask is hopefully I've just been blind and haven't found the all-in-one function that does this? And in the case one doesn't exist, I'm begging, pleading, crying for someone to have a more elegant solution to this than I do 😅