Selecting the selected...

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Here’s an example:


import bpy

obj = bpy.context.active_object

bpy.ops.object.duplicate()
obj.select=False
#   Do something to currently selected object
bpy.ops.object.delete()
obj.select=True

Even though i’ve reselected the original object, it’s not actually selected. Which can be demonstrated by appending this to the previous.


obj2 = bpy.context.active_object
print("name:",obj2)

Which will print ‘None’!

Q. How to make it the active object again?

Now, this technically works:


obj2=bpy.context.scene.objects[obj.name]
print("name:",obj2.name)

But, it still leaves the object dark orange (not light orange) and a panels poll function won’t recognise it as a singly selected object (of type).

Any solutions?

2

well this works fine


 
 
 # Duplicate object 
 
 bpy.context.scene.objects.active = bpy.context.scene.objects["Fluo1"]
 
 
 print (' object name  being moved =',bpy.context.scene.objects.active.name )
 bpy.ops.object.duplicate_move()
 obj_act = bpy.context.active_object
 obj_act.location.y += -spaceing
 obj_act.name="Fluo2"
 
 
 
 bpy.context.scene.objects.active = bpy.context.scene.objects["Fluo2"]
 print (' object name  being moved =',bpy.context.scene.objects.active.name )
 bpy.ops.object.duplicate_move()
 obj_act = bpy.context.active_object
 obj_act.location.y += -spaceing
 obj_act.name="Fluo3"
 
 bpy.context.scene.objects.active = bpy.context.scene.objects["Fluo3"]
 print (' object name  being moved =',bpy.context.scene.objects.active.name )
 bpy.ops.object.duplicate_move()
 obj_act = bpy.context.active_object
 obj_act.location.y += -spaceing
 obj_act.name="Fluo4"
 
 
 obmat2=bpy.context.scene.objects.active = bpy.context.scene.objects["Fluobox24"]

does it help
happy 2.5

3

It does… many thanks!


import bpy


obj = bpy.context.active_object

name=obj.name

bpy.ops.object.duplicate()
obj.select=False
#   Do something to currently selected object
bpy.ops.object.delete()
obj.select=True

bpy.context.scene.objects.active=obj