(Unsolvable?) Detect Pre-Selected Objects

[ThisPOT]

Howdy again everyone!

Is there a simple way to detect the pre-selected units/items for each player?

And if not, what would be a not too intensive work around?

 

[Pyrogasm]

What do you mean by ‘preselected’? You can always get “units currently selected by <player>” at any time.

If you mean “units in a drag select box before the lmb is released and they are actually selected” the only way you’re gonna get that is by tracking mouse position and button presses.

 

[ThisPOT]

You can't select or drag select in my map (you're stuck on your hero forever).

Basically, when you hover over a unit the pre-selection circle appears, that's what I need to get.

The problem with mouse position is that flying units can be stacked :/ ... but only one is actually pre-selected (has the circle around it).

 

[Pyrogasm]

I don't think you have any other option than checking coords and getting a unit beneath them. Maybe on an older patch that allows memhack you could grab this info but nothing actually happens that the game can detect when you do this.

 

[ThisPOT]

Hmmm that's too bad there must be some hidden action though or the pre-selection circles wouldn't appear.

 

[Pyrogasm]

It's part of the game engine, not the scripting language.

 

[ThisPOT]

Hopefully they add some sort of detection for that for reforged ;o

 

[Pyrogasm]

I would not expect so. Why do you want this functionality?

 

[ThisPOT]

It's hard to explain, but I'm using the right and left click functions for my new system.
Right click attacks, and right now it attacks when you pick up items as well, there's also other reasons why I wanted it (for more left click functionality without being too intensive).