Run Marionette on selected objects

[halfcoupler]

I have made a small Marionette that extrudes several path objectes:

 

I have wrapped this and created a plugin symbol for this.

My default criterium is  (SEL=TRUE) , so I want to select several objects and run the Marionette on these objets. This does not work: As soon as I select the Marionete, the selection of the objects is gone and vice versa... ( of course...)

Converting to a marionette Menu Command works fine, but I then I lose the ability to configure the criteria and circle raduis.

Choosing other criteria like pen forecolor or class works fine too.

 

Did I oversee something ?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 1, 2020 by halfcouple

[halfcoupler]

Just found that I can run the Marionette from another design Layer, but the ojects will then be moved to that layer ...

[SBarrettWalker]

Hi @halfcouple - you are correct in that you have to use a Menu Command to run a network on selected objects, you cannot do it with a regular network or a Marionette object. You can give yourself access to options in a menu command by using the nodes in the User Interaction folder in the Resource Selector. If you replace the regular input nodes with these dialog nodes, when you run the command, dialogs will pop up for each node asking what you want the parameters to be.

[halfcoupler]

Great ! Works perfect. Thank You !

[Michael Siggers]

On 6/2/2020 at 2:57 PM, SBarrettWalker said:

User Interaction folder in the Resource Selector. If you replace the regular input nodes with these dialog nodes

Hi @SBarrettWalker

 

Joining this thread as this is exactly what I'm trying to do, but there does not appear to be a node to prompt the user to enter an Object Name.

 

There is only one for 'String', but I don't know how to convert this to Object Name.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Kind regards

 

Mike

[SBarrettWalker]

Hello @Michael Siggers 

 

For some reason, there isn't a specific node that does this. I have created a custom node that I adapted from the Name input node. (All I did was change the OIP control to a Port.)

Here is the node in both a 2026 and 2025 version.

Custom Get Object Node.vwx Custom Get Object Node v2025.vwx

[Michael Siggers]

Hi @SBarrettWalker

 

That's brilliant, thank you. Worked perfectly.

 

You are what is commonly known as a genius.

 

How would I add that new Node to my Library?

 

Kind regards

 

Mike

[SBarrettWalker]

I saved the node as a resource, so you can make a favorites file and have access to it that way. 

[Pat Stanford]

@SBarrettWalker Could you not also just put a VW file with the node into the User (or Workgroup) folder in Libraries:Defaults:Marionette:"whatever subgroup folder you want it to show up in"?

 

You can look up the folder names in that path in the Application folder.

 

And you probably need to restart VW after adding a file to any of those folders to have it be seen.