object pairing in and out of families

if one picks BoxA (member of BoxFam) and pairs it with CircleA

one should be able to say

for each paired BoxFam, pick CircleA

or

for each paired BoxFam, pick CircleFam

or

for each paired BoxA, pick CircleFam

etc

Yes!

I actually tried one of those thinking that it would work.

Don't Containers already do this?

Containers are permanent, quite often we want to change pairs.

use the pairer plugin.

Which lucid is talking about in his post. You see, the pairer plugin isn't polished just yet.

really. well now, it would be nice to get official comment on this. not good to be in the dark, makes users not use it even tho it could work if done a certain way or things are avoided when using it. its what i believe anyway.

Unless you use a pv or something, how would the pairer know know which object in the family to pick?

this is a really old post

but

it would pick the paired objects in the family,

red, blue, and green, are all in family color

pair red with hello

for each hello, pick paired color

so it would pick red

I'm not sure if I read this topic right but if you mean containers should be able to work with families then yes, I agree. I can see the challenges to implementing that of course. The code would work differently or break entirely if 1 member of the family didn't have the corresponding contained object.

Edit: would probably be better to just use an ID value like I've been doing.