Object

The Object is the common base class for all of Silhouette's primary data objects. All objects have a unique id, user-editable label, and contain Properties.

# print the list of property names for the first selected object
object = fx.selection()[0]
print object.properties.keys()

Attributes

Attributes are read-only except where noted.

Name	Description
children	List of child objects or None
color	the object Color - not all objects have a way of changing their color (read/write)
id	the unique id as string
label	the object label (read/write)
locked	True if locked (read/write)
note	the object note (read/write)
parent	the parent Object, or None
properties	the dictionary of Properties
selected	True if selected
type	the object type name
visible	True if visible (read/write)

Methods

Name	Description
property(name)	returns the Property with the property name, or None
clone()	returns a deep clone of the object and children
getTransform(frame)	returns the accumulated transform at the specified time. This is a convenience method only useful for Layers and their children.