4. Creating Attribute manager controls

Creating Attribute manager controls

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    On 24/05/2011 at 09:21, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Is it possible to create controls in the Attribute manager with Python?
    I have a Python Tag that I would like to show four buttons in the Attribute manager when it is selected.
    But I only seem to find information about creating a GeDialog. Is there anything on creating stuff on the Attribute manager?

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    On 24/05/2011 at 10:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    You need to write Ressource files. Instead of dialog, it's called a description.
    There are examples in the doc.
    Py-RoundedTube or Py-SpherifyModifier for example.

    Cheers, nux

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    On 24/05/2011 at 10:47, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    "Description resource" in the C++ SDK is probably the best source of information about this.

    Here's a very simple tag with a button and some other things on it that might help:https:////sites.google.com/site/scottayersmedia/MyPythonTag.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

    -ScottA

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    On 24/05/2011 at 13:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Scott, by the way:
    You can already use those Parameter-Ids in your Plugin*.
    Like: rot.x = tag[c4d.rotx]
    Do also always write those IDs Upparcase, as this is the standart of C4D.

    *: You may sometimes have to delete the coffeesymbolscache-file.

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    On 24/05/2011 at 13:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Thank you very much. I will dissect them all :-)

    Rui Batista

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    On 24/05/2011 at 14:01, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Nux.
    The reason that file uses numeric ID's is because I use it to remind myself of both ways we can create gizmos. Using Both the .res names method, and the numeric ID method.
    It was just something really simple I could slap a button on to show Rui an example.

    But you're right about the Case.
    If I give it out. I should probably not use lower case names. So I changed that.
    I don't want to promote bad habits. 🙂

    -ScottA

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    On 25/05/2011 at 01:15, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Everything was going fine until the time I needed to check what was the button it was pressed.
    I assume it is done inside the Message procedure.
    The message procedure has the following parameters: Message(self, tag, type, data) :
    I placed in there:

    print type
    print data

    and only the data part seems to return something useful in the form:

    {id: (1001, 8, 100000011)}

    The problem is that it appears in the middle of a whole lot more data that I don't need.
    So, how can I extract the information of what button in being pressed?
    Thank you very much in advance for any reply.

    Rui Batista

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    On 25/05/2011 at 03:26, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Lol, same question one topic down of this one here. 

    I'm not at home, so i cant test it right now.
    It was something like     _
    if not data: return True
    id = data[0]["id"][0]_  
    or so.

    Cheers, Niklas

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    On 25/05/2011 at 04:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    I tried this:

    def Message(self, tag, type, data) :
    if not data: return True
    but=data[0]['id'][0]
    print but
    return True

    But I still get errors in the console:

    Traceback (most recent call last) :
    File "'Origins.pyp'", line 26, in Message
    TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable
    Traceback (most recent call last) :
    File "'Origins.pyp'", line 26, in Message
    KeyError: 0
    Traceback (most recent call last) :
    File "'Origins.pyp'", line 26, in Message
    KeyError: 0
    Traceback (most recent call last) :
    File "'Origins.pyp'", line 26, in Message
    KeyError: 0
    Traceback (most recent call last) :
    File "'Origins.pyp'", line 26, in Message
    KeyError: 0
    Traceback (most recent call last) :
    File "'Origins.pyp'", line 26, in Message
    KeyError: 0

    Line 26 is: but=data[0]['id'][0]

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    On 25/05/2011 at 06:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Did you also tried to change the Keys ? I'm no able to try it today.

    try this to check out what returns what.

      
if not data: return True   
print data   
print data[0]   
print data[0]["id"]   
print data[0][0]   
print data[0]["id"][0]   
print data[0][0]["id"]

    You can then just delete what raises
    an error.

    Cheers

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    On 25/05/2011 at 07:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    None of those worked out. But I'm getting somewhere by trial&error; ;-)
    So, what I have now is:

    def Message(self, tag, type, data) :

    if not type: return True
    if type<>18: return True
    print data.values()[0]

    return True

    And, what I get it something like:

    (1001, 8, 100000011)

    So, now I just need a way to extract the first number (the 1001, in this case).
    Any help?

    Rui Batista

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    On 25/05/2011 at 07:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    I can't even determine the type of the "but" variable :(
    If it is in the format (1001, 8, 100000011), it is not an array, right? It is not a dict either, I believe.
    So, how can I extract the numbers from it?

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    On 25/05/2011 at 07:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Ok, it seems to be a tuple but when I print the first element with print but[0], instead of a number, I get:

    <c4d.DescLevel object at 0x12902c4b0>

    What I want is a number, as in... 1001
    How?!? ;-)

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    On 25/05/2011 at 08:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Hi Rui, you can access this by calling     but[0].id
    Cheers, Sebastian

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    On 25/05/2011 at 08:36, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    YES!!! Thank you soooooo much :-)

    Rui Batista

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    On 25/05/2011 at 08:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Did you get the button to actually work Rui?
    I can get other things to work like check boxes..But not Buttons:

    def Message(self, tag, type, bc) :  
  bc = tag.GetDataInstance();  
    
  if bc.GetLong(c4d.XRAY)== True:  #This works  
    print "CheckBox Enabled"  
      
  if bc.GetLong(c4d.CLICK_ME)== True:  #<-----This does not work!!  
    print "Button Pushed"   

    Maybe I need to get and check the state of the button?

    -ScottA

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    On 25/05/2011 at 09:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Hm I could now look it up and i used this:

    def GetMessageID(data) :  
  try:  
      return data["id"][0].id  
  except:  
      return None

    cheers

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    On 25/05/2011 at 14:09, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    What I have now (and fully working) is something like this:

    def Message(self, tag, type, data) :

    if not type: return True
    if type<>18: return True

    but=data.values()[0]

    if but[0].id==1001:
        # stuff

    if but[0].id==1002:
        # stuff

    return True

    Would this be what you need, Scott?
    Thank you all for the help :-)

    Rui Batista

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    On 25/05/2011 at 15:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Yeah.. That helps a lot Rui.
    But it doesn't seem to work with ID names

      
if but[0].id==1006:     print "button enabled" #<---Works  
  
if but[0].id==CLICK_ME: print "button enabled" #<---Does Not Work!

    I'm sure there's a good reason for why the ID names don't work. But it's not the end of the world to have to use the ID numbers.

    Where did you find this?:type<>18
    I've never seen that before. And I'm wondering what it means.
    Is that a C4D SDK thing. Or is that something that is built into the Python language?

    -ScottA

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    On 25/05/2011 at 15:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Actually I found out by trial&error.;
    I just placed a print type inside the Message procedure. I noted the values. Then I placed a:

    if type==(numbers the I noted, one by one) :
    print data

    And when I compared the type with 18, it printed out:

    (1001, 8, 100000011)

    Not a very elegant way to find out, but it did the trick. However, I don't know what the 18 means ;-)

    Rui Batista

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