Solved Loading in a framesequence to the pictureviewer (EXRs)

Hello,

I've managed to get a framesequence loaded into the pictureviewer via python but they're all loaded in as individual frames and not as an actual sequence so the timeline controls are not visible and you can't play the sequence. I can't seem to find any options of this in the documentation, but perhaps I'm just don't know the term of the function to do it. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Hello @GillesKontrol,

Thank you for reaching out to us. What you want to do is unfortunately not possible to do, even in the app itself.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Oh? I was talking about when going to the PV and opening an EXR file as part of a sequence (via File > Open Image) you get this dialog:

https://i.imgur.com/RWWOsSJ.jpg

That's what I'm trying to replicate.

Hello @GillesKontrol,

Thank you for your clarification. I understood what you meant and I was probably a bit misleading in my answer here. The Picture Viewer (PV) is of course able to display multiple images as an image sequence.

What I meant was, that the C++ backend of the C++ interface ShowBitmap (i.e., what you are likely using) is not even allowing for this. This is a hard coded-functionality of the PV. There is a semi-public interface for the PV in the C++ API, but it is intentionally undocumented, and we therefore also have no plans to expose it in Python.

We might add a similar functionality at some point in the future, but it currently is simply not possible.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Loud and clear! Thankyou!