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Hi,
DISCLAIMER: This might be a trivial matter but I hope you'll hear me out.
I'm trying to add a userdata with a dropdown list. Much like this interface in Maya (https://www.dropbox.com/s/8d7n77nb7imtnuh/c4d087_enum_list_attribute.jpg?dl=0)
I managed to do that with the help of this blog. I modified it and it works as expected but my concern is it is using a "SetString" type rather than "Brackets" type. See illustration below.
So instead of bc[c4d.DESC_NAME] = "Name" It uses bc.SetString(c4d.DESC_NAME, "Name")
bc[c4d.DESC_NAME] = "Name"
bc.SetString(c4d.DESC_NAME, "Name")
I would prefer the former as my previous codes are written like that.
In the code below, I inserted a # comment line for the things that I'd like to be revised.
# comment
con = c4d.BaseObject(5181) doc.InsertObject(con) bc = c4d.GetCustomDataTypeDefault(c4d.DTYPE_LONG) bc[c4d.DESC_NAME] = "spaceSwitch" bc[c4d.DESC_CUSTOMGUI]=c4d.CUSTOMGUI_CYCLE # how to change to bracket type test = c4d.BaseContainer() test.SetString(1, "head") test.SetString(2, "chest") bc.SetContainer(c4d.DESC_CYCLE, test) # how to change to bracket type descID = con.AddUserData(bc) con[c4d.ID_USERDATA, descID[1].id]=1 c4d.EventAdd()
Thank you for looking at my problem.
Hi @bentraje,
[] bracket operator in a case of a BaseList2D is an alias for Set/GetParameter. [] bracket operator in a case of BaseContainer is an alias for SetData / GetData, see __setitem__ and __getitem__.
So you can use them directly.
test = c4d.BaseContainer() test[1] = "head" test[2] = "chest" bc[c4d.DESC_CYCLE] = test
Hope it make sense. Cheers, Maxime.
@m_adam
Interesting. I never knew about the bracket operator being different on a BaseList2D and the BaseContainer.
Thank you for the response. Works as expected. Have a great day ahead!
Hi @m_adam
Sorry for reviving the thread.
But I just want to clarify how do I use the Set methods for an existing UserData. Basically, a reverse from the question above.
Set
UserData
Currently, I have this bracket type code:
space_switch_obj[c4d.ID_USERDATA,3] = 0
I want to change it to a Set method with this one:
space_switch_obj.GetUserDataContainer()[2][1].SetInt32(3,0)
It does not error out but also it doesn't set the parameter to zero. My logic for the [2] is because it is the third user data with zero being the first For the [1] is because it is the base container. For the [3] is because it matches with the [c4d.ID_USERDATA,3] .
[2]
[1]
[3]
[c4d.ID_USERDATA,3]
Is there a way around this?
P.S. I'd like to provide you screenshot on the result of the GetUserDataContainer but it's hard to represent since the console do not wrap its result. So the result is a bit long
GetUserDataContainer
GetUserDataContainer() returns the BaseContainer that stores the user data description. This BaseContainer does not store the user data values.
The user data values are stored with the host object and must be accessed using a DescID with c4d.ID_USERDATA. See the DescID Manual.
DescID
c4d.ID_USERDATA
@PluginStudent
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, the C++ manual is all foreign to me. The Python documentation doesn't have as many examples compared to the C++.
Anyway, on the page you referred on the section "User data parameters are stored in a sub-container with the ID ID_USERDATA."
It doesn't have any examples to change parameters but only to get them which is GetParameter. So I guess the proper method would be SetParameter instead of SetFloat?
GetParameter
SetParameter
SetFloat
If so, how do I use the SetParameter? It requires parameters of (id, param, groupid).
(id, param, groupid)
@bentraje The access for userdata is indeed through Get/SetParameter. The needed DescID is constructed by two DescLevels, the first being a (constant) DescLevel for UserData, the second being the ID and type of the specific userdata entry that you look for:
import c4d from c4d import gui def main(): print "---------------------------" userdata_entry = 1 # your ID of the userdata # construct a DescID for user data dId = c4d.DescID(c4d.DescLevel(c4d.ID_USERDATA, c4d.DTYPE_SUBCONTAINER), c4d.DescLevel(userdata_entry,c4d.DTYPE_LONG)) # read the user data value print op.GetParameter(dId, c4d.DESCFLAGS_GET_NONE) # write user data value userdata_new_value = 42 op.SetParameter(dId,userdata_new_value,c4d.DESCFLAGS_SET_NONE) c4d.EventAdd() # list all user data definitions (not values) for id, bc in op.GetUserDataContainer(): print id, bc # pry apart bc for the exact definition (types, min, max...) if __name__=='__main__': main()
This script assumes that your op has a userdata element with the ID 1 which is an integer. I didn't add the third value for the DescLevels which is 0 in both cases.
@bentraje You find also some information in this discussion: Miscellaneous questions about "BaseContainer","DescID" etc
@Cairyn
Thanks for the code. It works as expected.
@s_bach
Thanks for the reference. Reading it at the moment and the whole base container is much more complicated than I thought it would be.