CustomGui DescID [SOLVED]

On 06/08/2015 at 01:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   R16 
Platform:   Windows  ;   
Language(s) :     C++  ;

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Greetings !

I have created a custom gui and i use it in resource file as:
LONG UPPER_MENU { CUSTOMGUI INTERACTIVE_AREA; }
LONG .... { CUSTOMGUI INTERACTIVE_AREA; }
LONG .... { CUSTOMGUI INTERACTIVE_AREA; }
LONG .... { CUSTOMGUI INTERACTIVE_AREA; }
LONG LOWER_MENU { CUSTOMGUI INTERACTIVE_AREA; }

How can i get the values each menu ID in the constructor of the customgui subclass?
I use many menus that way and i want to handle them differently during creation.

Cosntructor:
MyCustomGui::MyCustomGui(const BaseContainer &settings,CUSTOMGUIPLUGIN *t_plugin)

I need something like String str=settings.GetString(DESC_IDENT); but this one returns the string.
I need the DescID. I looked at the ids i can pass but no one returns what i want.

Thank you very much for your time.

On 06/08/2015 at 01:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

you can do this through a CustomDataType connected to your CustomGui, at least this is what I've done in my case and works fine.

On 06/08/2015 at 02:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello.

The function getCustomDataType needs the id of an element as parameter.

What I need to find is this ID.

I have many elements defined as:
LONG MY_MENU { CUSTOMGUI INTERACTIVE_AREA; }
I need the value of MY_MENU  inside the constructor of interactive area custom gui.

Thank you.

On 07/08/2015 at 02:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

sorry for the late reply.
now I kinda understand what you want to do, you wanna react in your user area depending on the MY_MENU integer value.

check this, done by Niklas, https://github.com/nr-plugins/example-tristate-gui/tree/e090322e5ff3aca795254d74e1021213d7cf39e5

here is the highlighted interesting area, https://github.com/nr-plugins/example-tristate-gui/blob/e090322e5ff3aca795254d74e1021213d7cf39e5/src/TriStateGui.cpp#L195-L233

m_ua is a member, representing your user area, and here it can "see" what the value is, so you can react according to this.

On 07/08/2015 at 03:36, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

I'm not sure, it is a good idea to react on specific description IDs in a CustomGUI. After all the CustomGUI can be used for every description parameter of a given type. So you can't actually know in advance for which IDs the CustomGUI will be used.
Instead I propose to have a CustomProperty on the CustomGUI, where an integer can be specified to choose the desired behavior.

On 07/08/2015 at 04:01, xxxxxxxx wrote:

@Andreas, this is one of the reasons I made my CustomGui hidden "only me can use it" , and used it privately inside my CustomDataType

On 26/08/2015 at 10:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:

@peterakos: Have you been able to get going?

On 26/08/2015 at 13:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Greetings !
Yes i have managed to find a workaround to my problem.
Thank you very much.