MergeDocument()

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On 06/05/2006 at 05:47, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   9.5 
Platform:   Windows  ; Mac  ;  
Language(s) :     C++  ;

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Hi,

I tried to merge a scene into the currently active document and MergeDocument returns TRUE, but nothing is merged into the scene. :-/

Anybody knows how to use MergeDocument() or why it´s not workign?

BaseDocument *doc=GetActiveDocument();     if (!doc) return FALSE;  
               MergeDocument(doc,this->file,SCENEFILTER_MERGESCENE,NULL);

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On 16/05/2006 at 00:47, xxxxxxxx wrote:

So, doesn´t it work or am I doing sth wrong?
How is one supposed to develop when you need to beg for an answer?

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On 16/05/2006 at 06:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

MergeDocument() is new to the R9.5 SDK, so I've never used it. You're probably one of the first to do so. :)

What you're doing looks proper from reading the documentation. Does the loaded document show anywhere (unmerged, for instance) or does it just not load at all?

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On 16/05/2006 at 06:41, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Kuro,

it simply doesn´t load at all. I don´t get any memory leaks but the function returns TRUE! It really seems to do nothing! :-(

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On 16/05/2006 at 08:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:

What kind of document is it? A .c4d I would suppose. Have you tried other files and file types, .obj for instance?

Looking at 'c4d_basedocument.cpp', it appears that SCENEFILTER_MERGESCENE is already OR'd into the flags. Try it without any flags (0L), if you haven't already.

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On 16/05/2006 at 08:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:

yep, it is c4d. Also tried other formats. And I of course already tried any kind of FLAG combination already. :) No difference though. :-(

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On 16/05/2006 at 13:29, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm sorry, the docs are a bit misleading. In my experiments I need to have SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS|SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS in order to make both LoadDocument() and MergeDocument() actually do anything. This is the code I used:

    
    
    Filename fn1;  
    fn1.FileSelect();  
    BaseDocument* doc1 = LoadDocument(fn1, SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS|SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS, NULL);  
    Filename fn2;  
    fn2.FileSelect();  
    MergeDocument(doc1,fn2, SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS|SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS,NULL);  
    InsertBaseDocument(doc1);  
    EventAdd();

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On 16/05/2006 at 13:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Mikael! Now I see what LoadDocument has to do with it! Great, will try that. Thanks finally!

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On 14/06/2009 at 11:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Just found this solution, but i'd like to understand why i need to use LoadDocument and cant use the current ActiveDocument as the base?

cheers,
Ello