While I solve my other problems...

Does the getactivepoint() work with more than one point now?

What I was thinking of doing was actually selecting points on different objects, which I realise can't be done.  Maybe you can already do what I want in 3DC... I want to "lay on" - that is select a point on one object, select a point on a target object, then shift the first object by the difference - so the first object is moved onto the second point.  That seems to me an easy way to get my feet on the ground and hair on my head.  

Any ideas?
George

I've just written something very similar, but it just shifts or moves objects so that their bounding boxes touch.

I mimiced the hierarchy view to select the second object (instead of using the canvas viewer)

As far as I was aware it is only objects you cannot multi-select, faces, edges and points (on the same object) can be multi-selected for plugins.

Paul

aw that's clever (using the heirarchy).  I was using one script to tell me the group number, then using that as input to a second one (before I started using NameIt and writing plugins I can't remember the workings of)

But I still want to select points on different objects.  What I could do is run a script that writes the coordinates to a file, then select my point on the second object, read the coordinates from the file and do the move.

George