From 742cb48651f1c7aadb1cd705564fd93c818e4719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yorik van Havre <yorik@uncreated.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:04:41 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Gui: Fixed regression in getObjectInfo

---
 src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp b/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
index c8722eff59..9721fc5d15 100644
--- a/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
@@ -1179,6 +1179,21 @@ Py::Object View3DInventorPy::getObjectInfo(const Py::Tuple& args)
                 // ok, found the node of interest
                 ret = dict;
             }
+            else {
+                // custom nodes not in a VP: search for a SoFCSelection node
+                SoFCDocumentObjectAction objaction;
+                objaction.apply(Point->getPath());
+                if (objaction.isHandled()) {
+                    dict.setItem("Document",
+                        Py::String(objaction.documentName.getString()));
+                    dict.setItem("Object",
+                        Py::String(objaction.objectName.getString()));
+                    dict.setItem("Component",
+                        Py::String(objaction.componentName.getString()));
+                    // ok, found the node of interest
+                    ret = dict;
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         return ret;