Hi there,

I created this script where I delete every third-party-tag from the current document.

However I was wondering if it's not even simpler to just delete tags with a certain "id-threshold".

What's the first/smallest ID that third-party-tags or plugin-ids can have?

So one can basically: Delete Tag if tag-id is bigger than threshold

Thanks,
Lasse

@mp5gosu Whooop! Thanks, Robert!

You have to return a tuple so return (c4d.NOTOK, False) does the trick for me.

Thank you!!!

Cheers,
Lasse

Hi @m_adam, thanks for the link!
While this is an interesting discussion, I think I mainly want to know if there is a way to prevent C4D from opening the dragged .c4d file?

This wasn't really discussed in that thread and I'm not really sure if there's anything we can do about it...

Any ideas?
Much appreciated.

Thanks,
Lasse

Hey there,

I'm currently working on a treeview where I want to act on c4d files that are dragged into the treeview.

Everything works expected using AcceptDragObject but I'm not quite sure I can stop C4D from opening the c4d file itself. I can of course close the document right away, but with bigger files the loading process can take a while and I just want to have the path to that file essentially.

    def AcceptDragObject(self, root, userdata, obj, dragtype, dragobject):
        if dragtype == c4d.DRAGTYPE_FILENAME_SCENE:
            #get me the path without ever opening the file...

Hope it makes sense, and there might be a way to prevent this from happening.

Thanks,
Lasse

@kbar said in Python Source Protector: Can it be called via CLI?:

I am going to bump this also.This function should be able to be called by command line. I would like to do this via my build system. By calling the cinema4d.exe, or c4dpy, with the python plugin path.

Okay, it seems I just need to use dragobject = dragobject.decode('utf-8') then.
Sorry for all the confusion and thanks for the help @Cairyn !

Cheers,
Lasse

The path from AcceptDragObject's dragobject is NOT working with os.path.isdir(). That is on Windows when using unicode characters e.g. äöü in your filepath... That's my main problem here...

Yeah, the problem lies in the escaping characters...

Sadly the function only returns simple backward slashes C:\Users\lasse\Desktop\test_with_äüö so \t will become a tab character.

There wouldn't be a problem if the returned path would be with two backward slashes \\ or even forward slashes / ... That might be worth a bug report!?

Thankfully someone on stackoverflow had the same issue and came up with a function to convert this "bad" path...

backslash_map = { '\a': r'\a', '\b': r'\b', '\f': r'\f',
                  '\n': r'\n', '\r': r'\r', '\t': r'\t', '\v': r'\v' }
def reconstruct_broken_string(s):
    for key, value in backslash_map.items():
        s = s.replace(key, value)
    return s

So in my example I can do:

    dragobject = "C:\Users\lasse\Desktop\test_with_äüö"
    s = reconstruct_broken_string(dragobject).decode('utf-8')
    print os.path.isdir(s) # returns True

That is overly complicated and somewhat convoluted, but I haven't found any other way.

Cheers,
Lasse

Hi there,

I'm currently having issues converting unicode characters on Windows...

I'm utilizing the AcceptDragObject in a c4d.gui.TreeViewFunctions.

I want to act on a given folder that is dragged into my treeview.
if dragtype == c4d.DRAGTYPE_FILENAME_OTHER gives me the direct filepath.

For example I'm having a folder called test_with_äüö on my Desktop.

My main issue is, that I need to work with the variable coming in from the dragtype called dragobject and can't convert the direct result!

Here's a simple test-script to play around with:

import c4d
import os

def _direct_conversion():
    return r"C:\Users\lasse\Desktop\test_with_äüö".decode('utf-8')

def _from_variable():
    dragobject = "C:\Users\lasse\Desktop\test_with_äüö"
    s = r"%s" % (dragobject)
    s = s.decode('utf-8')
    return s

def main():
    s = _direct_conversion()
    s = _from_variable()
    
    print "os.path.isdir:", os.path.isdir(s)

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

The bad thing is that the _direct_conversion() gives me the correct result while _from_variable() does not.

I'm probably totally overthinking this, but any ideas how to solve that "simple" problem are welcome!!! :)

Cheers,
Lasse

Thanks @m_adam for the insights!

Works like a charm!!

Cheers,
Lasse