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RE: C++ and Python Sections

Hi Kent,

thanks for your feedback.

Actually merging C++ and Python categories was an outcome of our beta phase, where some were of the opinion too many categories would not be desirable. But there's another reason we did so: Our C++ and Python APIs are actually so similar, that many answers hold for both languages.
And lastly, if it were just for the C++ and Python tags, we probably wouldn't even ask for the tags. It's rather tags about version or API in use, we are interested in most.
Oh, and by the way, although I have to admit it was less frequent in the old forum, but instead of asking for tags we were asking to post into the right category. Which by the way still happens with just the four we have here.
Oh, oh... Kent, can you please consider using tags? See About This Forum. Thanks!
Just kidding.

But anyway, these are our reasons, maybe others have different ones and agree with yours. Then please, provide us with your arguments and opinions. It's not that we wouldn't care. We have taken notes of all feedback we received so far and will evaluate this hopefully during November. So, it's actually a good time to provide such feedback.

Maybe we can also address your aversion of "oversized" text. We'll look into providing themes. But we also need to see, what we can actually achieve and maintain in a certain amount of time. After all we think, support work is more important than induldging in web design.
One thing I can say for sure, though. It's not your age. Because with my age increasing I definitely need larger and larger text...

Now, for the community aspect. I'm really sorry to hear this. I can only say, no, it was not our intention to kill the community in Plugin Café. Believe me, quite the opposite. I'd be really interested in more opinions and suggestions on this topic.
Here's how I see it:

It's always risky to replace a forum, moving the site. And I'm not sure everybody has already joined us here. We had very good reasons for this move and I really hope, everybody will follow.
With us answering in a day or two on most questions, there's often no more reason for the community to contribute. Looking into the old Plugin Café you will find many thready which took days if not weeks to get an answer from the community. So, I guess, we could revive some community aspects by simply postponing our answers, but I'm not sure that's desirable either.

For example @mp5gosu told us, how much he likes working in this new forum. And we can see him actively discussing and contributing.

Please, everybody, come in, join this thread and provide us with your feedback. Tell us what you want and need. Kent mentioned some good points here. One especially worries me. Help us make this forum the place you want to be supported in. Help us to make this the place you want to discuss your plugin development related topics in.

Cheers,
Andreas

posted in Maxon Announcements •

RE: Simple Box Gui Creation

Hi,

thanks for the additional information and setting the tags.

The BitmapButton needs to be added to the dialog via AddCustomGui().
For example like so:

        # Prepare a red bitmap for the button.
        w = 50
        h = 50
        bmpRed = c4d.bitmaps.BaseBitmap()
        bmpRed.Init(w, h)
        for y in xrange(w):
            for x in xrange(h):
                bmpRed.SetPixel(x, y, 255, 0, 0)
        # BitmapButton configuration
        bcBitmapButton = c4d.BaseContainer()
        bcBitmapButton[c4d.BITMAPBUTTON_BUTTON] = True

        # Add a BitmapButton to the dialog.
        # _bitmapButton is a member variable of the dialog class
        buttonId = 2000
        _bitmapButton = self.AddCustomGui(buttonId, c4d.CUSTOMGUI_BITMAPBUTTON, "", c4d.BFH_CENTER|c4d.BFV_CENTER, w, h, bcBitmapButton)
        if _bitmapButton is None:
            print "Handle this error!"
        # Assign the image to the button.
        # Note: Let it create an internal copy as the created bitmap will be free'd, when scope is left.
        _bitmapButton.SetImage(bmpRed, True)

Cheers,
Andreas