How to get/set tool data but not apply it?

On 25/06/2015 at 22:45, xxxxxxxx wrote:

How is it that you get/set the current tool's(or any tool's) data?

For instance, if I wanted to change say the modeling axis in the live selection or move tools how would I do it?

Or like if you wanted to for instance set the extrude tool's offset to 75, but not APPLY the command, how do you go about setting that?

I can do Get/SetAction, and GetActiveToolData, but you cannot seem to SetActiveToolData.

I'm sure it's something simple, but it's late and I'm missing something.

On 28/06/2015 at 16:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is this not at all possible?

On 29/06/2015 at 09:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

doc.GetActiveToolData() returns the container instance for a tool. Its values can then be modified directly and the changes will be reflected automatically after calling c4d.EventAdd(). This explains why there's no doc.SetActiveToolData().

Here's a simple script to do this:

import c4d
  
data = doc.GetActiveToolData()
action = doc.GetAction()
if data is not None and action==c4d.ID_MODELING_EXTRUDE_TOOL:
    data[c4d.MDATA_EXTRUDE_OFFSET]=75.0
    c4d.EventAdd()

EDIT: Updated script.

On 30/06/2015 at 23:12, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for the script Yannick.

However I still seem to be having troubles.

Using this code doesn't work, and doesn't error either.

data = doc.GetActiveToolData()
  action = doc.GetAction()
  if data is not None and action==c4d.ID_MODELING_MOVE:
      data[c4d.MDATA_AXIS_ROT]=2
      data[c4d.MDATA_AXIS_NORMAL_PSR]=True
      c4d.EventAdd()

Any ideas what is going on? I am trying to be able to toggle the settings of the move tool but I can't seem to access it.

On 01/07/2015 at 01:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

To change the parameters of the Move/Scale/Rotate tools we have to retrieve the tool instance:

import c4d
from c4d import plugins
  
tool = plugins.FindPlugin(c4d.ID_MODELING_MOVE, c4d.PLUGINTYPE_TOOL)
if tool is not None:
    tool[c4d.MDATA_AXIS_ROT] = 5
    tool[c4d.MDATA_AXIS_NORMAL_PSR] = True
    c4d.EventAdd()

On 01/07/2015 at 23:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Yannick, That seems to work.

But one question, what dictates when one must use FindPlugin vs GetActiveToolData? Is there some kind of difference there that one must know of? When should one be used vs the other?

On 02/07/2015 at 01:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

But one question, what dictates when one must use FindPlugin vs GetActiveToolData? Is there some kind of difference there that one must know of? When should one be used vs the other?

In fact BaseDocument.GetActiveToolData() calls GetToolData(doc, doc->GetAction()). And GetToolData() calls FindPlugin(pluginid, PLUGINTYPE_TOOL). So there should not be no difference between FindPlugin() and GetActiveToolData().
But there seems to have an issue with the Move/Rotate/Scale tools data containers returned by GetActiveToolData().