…and definitely not getting there.
I’m still completely confused by the UI of the “Match Text Filter” component.
Given a filter criteria, I’m never quite sure what Key/Value combo to select, and to make matters worse, the “Value” doesn’t remain highlighted, so if you don’t check “Show expression”, you have no idea what the filter is.
Frankly, this is a very confusing and poorly executed UI …
Anyways, here’s an example ; can someone help me filter the objects inside my blocks by layer name ?
Still not sure what I’m doing as I don’t get the difference between the “Contains text” and the “Match text” filters.
Also, please point me out to some explanations about the Key/Value scheme of these UIs.
It confuses the heck out of me, and the fact there is no hint of the currently selected value doesn’t help !
I think it’s good to be as precise with the filtering. So when you know the full layer name, you don’t use a wildcard filter because the equality filter is more specific and doesn’t let through anything else but the exact match. Not sure how to explain any better.
No. I don’t feel I need to know this to perform such a simple task as filtering objects by layers.
If I do, then maybe McNeel just made a mess of a simple thing.
The concatenated full layer name is not stored anywhere. Content information outputs parent and Layer.Name and that’s what I use to filter an exact layer match.
Layer.Path would work as a single equality filter.