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Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

Hmm..

Why do you want to edit in both Layout and Sequencer? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

I dont necessarily want to. My scene relies on having group names have numbers numbers in a specific order (based on data that comes in each game), I have a script that renames the groups but it only works in Layout mode AND with the scene being the focused scene, so that is why I switch to Layout mode, have the script run and then back to Sequencer when done. I am open to doing it another way that works, this was my solution after realizing the groups do not get renames if the script runs in Sequencer mode.

Hmm..

Why do you want to edit in both Layout and Sequencer? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

Bumping this hoping someone has a suggestion that could help me. 

I dont necessarily want to. My scene relies on having group names have numbers numbers in a specific order (based on data that comes in each game), I have a script that renames the groups but it only works in Layout mode AND with the scene being the focused scene, so that is why I switch to Layout mode, have the script run and then back to Sequencer when done. I am open to doing it another way that works, this was my solution after realizing the groups do not get renames if the script runs in Sequencer mode.

Hmm..

Why do you want to edit in both Layout and Sequencer? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

I'm kinda curious of what the whole workflow is that requires renaming things within the scene itself (which is meant to be more a template for other things to change from there, not something that itself should be changing all the time per se). It might be possible to not deal with this and still get the same end result.

All that said: what is the trigger for your script to run? It may also be possible to have your original script run on the scene that has been taken online instead of the scene that's in layout. If it's from a Script command in a Keyboard shortcut, you may just need to get the Scene object from the xpOutputFramebuffer object instead of the Engine.GetScene.

Bumping this hoping someone has a suggestion that could help me. 

I dont necessarily want to. My scene relies on having group names have numbers numbers in a specific order (based on data that comes in each game), I have a script that renames the groups but it only works in Layout mode AND with the scene being the focused scene, so that is why I switch to Layout mode, have the script run and then back to Sequencer when done. I am open to doing it another way that works, this was my solution after realizing the groups do not get renames if the script runs in Sequencer mode.

Hmm..

Why do you want to edit in both Layout and Sequencer? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

I'm kinda curious of what the whole workflow is that requires renaming things within the scene itself (which is meant to be more a template for other things to change from there, not something that itself should be changing all the time per se). It might be possible to not deal with this and still get the same end result.

All that said: what is the trigger for your script to run? It may also be possible to have your original script run on the scene that has been taken online instead of the scene that's in layout. If it's from a Script command in a Keyboard shortcut, you may just need to get the Scene object from the xpOutputFramebuffer object instead of the Engine.GetScene.

Bumping this hoping someone has a suggestion that could help me. 

I dont necessarily want to. My scene relies on having group names have numbers numbers in a specific order (based on data that comes in each game), I have a script that renames the groups but it only works in Layout mode AND with the scene being the focused scene, so that is why I switch to Layout mode, have the script run and then back to Sequencer when done. I am open to doing it another way that works, this was my solution after realizing the groups do not get renames if the script runs in Sequencer mode.

Hmm..

Why do you want to edit in both Layout and Sequencer? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression? 

What user action does the highlighting? Is it just releasing pauses in a scene director and the scene director has a script block?

The way that I would tackle this is, instead of renaming the groups, have all of the groups named for player 1, 2, 3, 4, and instead use a script (or even Visual Logic) to adjust the position of the groups. That way, animation wise and logic wise, it's very easy, just 1>2>3>4, but position wise the objects have shifted position.

I'm kinda curious of what the whole workflow is that requires renaming things within the scene itself (which is meant to be more a template for other things to change from there, not something that itself should be changing all the time per se). It might be possible to not deal with this and still get the same end result.

All that said: what is the trigger for your script to run? It may also be possible to have your original script run on the scene that has been taken online instead of the scene that's in layout. If it's from a Script command in a Keyboard shortcut, you may just need to get the Scene object from the xpOutputFramebuffer object instead of the Engine.GetScene.

Bumping this hoping someone has a suggestion that could help me. 

I dont necessarily want to. My scene relies on having group names have numbers numbers in a specific order (based on data that comes in each game), I have a script that renames the groups but it only works in Layout mode AND with the scene being the focused scene, so that is why I switch to Layout mode, have the script run and then back to Sequencer when done. I am open to doing it another way that works, this was my solution after realizing the groups do not get renames if the script runs in Sequencer mode.

Hmm..

Why do you want to edit in both Layout and Sequencer? 

Doing this in Xpression with Dashboard as a control for some items. 

Are you making an C#/C++/Visual Basic API app or doing all of this directly inside of XPression?