Dave Mitchell's DigitalMicrograph™ Scripting Website

// An example script which shows how to deselect a component

// which is selected within an image. A component can be a region

// of interest, text annotation etc.

// D. R. G. Mitchell, adminnospam@dmscripting.com (remove the nospam from this email address to make this work

// v1.0, August 2008

// version:20080817

// Function to return the selected annotation

component selectedAnnotation(imagedocument imgdoc, component parent)

{

number children = parent.ComponentCountChildren()

component selected,dummy

number i

if (parent.ComponentIsSelected()) return parent

else if (children>0)

{

for(i=0;i<children;i++)

{

selected = imgdoc.selectedAnnotation(parent.ComponentGetChild(i))

if (ComponentIsValid(selected)) return selected

}

}

return dummy

}

// Get the frontmost image

image front:=getfrontimage()

imagedocument imgdoc=getfrontimagedocument()

// Get the root component and extract the selected component

component root=imgdoc.imagedocumentgetrootcomponent()

component selected=imgdoc.selectedannotation(root)

// Deselect all selected components

if(componentisvalid(selected))

{

component parent=componentgetparentcomponent(selected)

number count=componentcountchildren(parent)

number i

for(i=0; i<count; i++)

{

component child=parent.componentgetchild(i)

if(componentisselected(child)) componentsetselected(child,0)

}

}