I guess I found a workaround... I cannot show the whole code involved but something along those lines:

I have a Treeview that stores an absolute path abs_path of different documents... Now, I just check if one of these filepaths is in my open documents paths via: get_all_docs_paths()

def get_all_docs_paths():

    all_docs_paths = []

    first = c4d.documents.GetFirstDocument()
    while first:
        folder = first.GetDocumentPath()
        abs_path = os.path.join(folder, first.GetDocumentName())
        all_docs_paths.append(abs_path)
        first = first.GetNext()
    
    return all_docs_paths

If yes, the document is open, if not it is closed.

Cheers,
Lasse

Thanks, @mp5gosu ...!

@zipit said in Detect closing of Document:

The easiest way would be to use some kind of plugin node for that. I currently do not see a way to do this in a GeDialog, but I might be wrong. We will discuss that tomorrow in the SDK Team, to see if the others know a clever way to do that. Just wanted to make sure that you do not run down a rabbit hole with no exit ;)

Hehe, yeah that's exactly what I thought when looking at MSG_DOCUMENTINFO. Thanks for the quick answer, Ferdinand. Looking forward to your thoughts and ideas...

Cheers,
Lasse

I basically want to react in my GeDialog if my active document has been closed.
I'm currently looking at MSG_DOCUMENTINFO but there's no flag for a closed document... one other idea would be to listen to a CallCommand for example via c4d.MSG_DESCRIPTION_COMMAND?

What would be the best way to approach this..?

Thanks,
Lasse

@mp5gosu Damn. That's really not the answer I wanted to hear, Robert!

Hey everyone,

I'm currently developing a treeview-plugin for all my scripts/presets etc.. I was wondering if it is possible to drag and drop items of said treeview directly to my layout.

I'm currently thinking along those lines:

In my declared ListItem (obj) I have a property of Instance which can hold the reference to the CommandPlugin for each script.

    @property
    def Instance(self):
        # of course this just a placeholder (but a valid one...)
        return c4d.plugins.FindPlugin(600000174)

In the GenerateDragArray I will create an Array with my said Instance/Reference, also I've tried setting different flags for GetDragType to c4d.DRAGTYPE_COMMAND etc....

    def GenerateDragArray(self, root, userdata, obj):
        if obj.IsSelected:
            return [obj.Instance]
        return None

    def GetDragType(self, root, userdata, obj):
        return c4d.DRAGTYPE_COMMAND

    def SetDragObject(self, root, userdata, obj):
        return obj.Instance

...but, sadly it's NOT working as I would expect... :)

Is this possible with python in general, or a limitation? What am I missing?

Thanks,
Lasse

Had one aswell....

a rather old one... ...haha.

yep, back online... here in hamburg.

Hi there,

https://developers.maxon.net/ appears to be offline? Is this just a short outage..?

Cheers,
Lasse

@zipit said in Rename object by filename:

PS: @lasselauch I know that you meant this in a light-hearted manner, but "let-me-google-that-for-you" can be misconstrued. People have different information needs and things that seem trivial or obvious to you, are not for them. Programming can be a confusing topic and we would like this to be a welcoming place for everyone and subsequently stay away from all "RTFM"-notions.

Yep, definitely meant in a light-hearted manner!!! :)
You're totally right.. that's why I provided the correct answer.

Cheers,
Lasse

Of course there are a lot of ways to spin this, but I guess in most cases this should be enough:

# import os
import c4d

def main():
    if not doc:
        return
    docname = doc.GetDocumentName()

    # docname, _ = os.path.splitext(docname)
    docname = docname.replace('.c4d', '')
    
    null = op.GetMain()
    if not null:
        return

    null.SetName(docname)

Download: null-docname.c4d

Cheers,
Lasse