Hi @orestiskon,

From what I learnt recently, if you have more than one data to store, you can create a sub container of the base container identified by the pluginID.

I can't remember where I read that... just be careful I'm not an advanced C4D developer

In a class for a BaseTag I use this like that,

        self.bcDATAS = c4d.BaseContainer()
        self.bcDATAS[ myData ] = "A string for example"
        # Be sure to use a unique ID obtained at https://plugincafe.maxon.net/c4dpluginid_cp
        myPLUGIN_ID = 0123456789 

        # Get the Document Settings BaseContainer
        self.bcDoc = doc.GetDocumentData( c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT )
        self.bcDoc[ myPLUGIN_ID ] = self.bcDATAS # Store plugin container inside the document container

        # Save the updated Document BC
        op.SetData( self.bcDoc )
        
        # To retrieve a data
        print ( op.GetData()[ myPLUGIN_ID ][ myData ] )

Cheers,

Christophe

@orestiskon, self is used because the example is an extract of a class. In my case, those variables are defined in the def __init__ (self):, and belongs to the class object. They are not globals. Have a look there, https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html you will understand it with a much better explanation than mine.

If you plan to do not use that inside a class, you can get rid of self of course. Just be careful of doc and op used here below as they are arguments of def Execute(self, tag, doc, op, bt, priority, flags): used in my BaseTag plugin.

Knowing this, I assume you can easily transpose this to your purpose as the following example won't work as it is

bcDATAS = c4d.BaseContainer()
bcDATAS[ myData ] = "A string for example"
# Be sure to use a unique ID obtained at https://plugincafe.maxon.net/c4dpluginid_cp
myPLUGIN_ID = 0123456789 

# Get the Document Settings BaseContainer
bcDoc = doc.GetDocumentData( c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT )
bcDoc[ myPLUGIN_ID ] = bcDATAS # Store plugin container inside the document container

# Save the updated Document BC
op.SetData( bcDoc )
        
# To retrieve a data
print ( op.GetData()[ myPLUGIN_ID ][ myData ] )

I noticed by having a look on other .res files that there is a STATICTEXT { JOINEND; } that exists and can be applied on LAYERGROUP as well as STATICTEXT { NEWLINE; } but I didn't got the use of the last one as that does not create the "\r" or "\r\n" it should.

Didn't found any informations in the SDK (C++ nor Python) about JOINEND and JOINENDSCALE... those tags looks like to be undocumented.

Thanks a lot @cairyn for your answer. Yes, that's a super old thread, but it's the one talking about CollieMouse
Do you have a link to get / buy it? The only link I found is about a v1.2 free, which is not working under R23.

Thanks a lot!
Christophe

Hello @Cairyn, do you have now a working version of CollieMouse working for R23 and higher? If yes, could we have a short talk about it?
Thanks a lot,
Christophe

I noticed by having a look on other .res files that there is a STATICTEXT { JOINEND; } that exists and can be applied on LAYERGROUP as well as STATICTEXT { NEWLINE; } but I didn't got the use of the last one as that does not create the "\r" or "\r\n" it should.

Didn't found any informations in the SDK (C++ nor Python) about JOINEND and JOINENDSCALE... those tags looks like to be undocumented.

Hi there,

I finally end up to format all the elements the way I wand thanks to @ferdinand's link. Indeed STATICTEXT { JOINENDSCALE; } is the trick to proper format your elements when you want to use COLUMNS in GROUP.

Here the result in picture,

And the code extract from the .str for whom are interested,

GROUP mGRPAXIS {
    DEFAULT 1;

    SEPARATOR { SCALE_H; }

    GROUP {
        DEFAULT 1;
        COLUMNS 4;

        STATICTEXT mPOSITION    { SCALE_H; }
        STATICTEXT mENPOS       {  }
        STATICTEXT mROTATION    { SCALE_H; }
        STATICTEXT mENROT       {  }
        STATICTEXT              { JOINENDSCALE; }
    }

    GROUP {
        DEFAULT 1;
        COLUMNS 4;

        REAL mTX                { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
        BOOL mEN_TX             { ANIM OFF;}
        REAL mRX                { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
        BOOL mEN_RX             { ANIM OFF; }
        STATICTEXT              { JOINENDSCALE; }

        REAL mTY                { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
        BOOL mEN_TY             { ANIM OFF; }
        REAL mRY                { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
        BOOL mEN_RY             { ANIM OFF; }
        STATICTEXT              { JOINENDSCALE; }
        
        REAL mTZ                { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
        BOOL mEN_TZ             { ANIM OFF; }
        REAL mRZ                { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
        BOOL mEN_RZ             { ANIM OFF; }
        STATICTEXT              { JOINENDSCALE; }
    }

    SEPARATOR                   { LINE; SCALE_H; }
    BUTTON mREMOVE_MOTION       { ANIM OFF; }
}

Thanks again to the community and plugincafe!
Cheers,

Christophe.

Oh! I missed this thread... did thought about searching LAYOUTGROUP, thanks a lot @ferdinand; I going to try this right away and keep you in touch!

Why all those tricks do not appears in SDK? maybe with a bunch of examples it will shorten the learning curve for a lot of people

Cheer,
Christophe

@orestiskon, self is used because the example is an extract of a class. In my case, those variables are defined in the def __init__ (self):, and belongs to the class object. They are not globals. Have a look there, https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html you will understand it with a much better explanation than mine.

If you plan to do not use that inside a class, you can get rid of self of course. Just be careful of doc and op used here below as they are arguments of def Execute(self, tag, doc, op, bt, priority, flags): used in my BaseTag plugin.

Knowing this, I assume you can easily transpose this to your purpose as the following example won't work as it is

bcDATAS = c4d.BaseContainer()
bcDATAS[ myData ] = "A string for example"
# Be sure to use a unique ID obtained at https://plugincafe.maxon.net/c4dpluginid_cp
myPLUGIN_ID = 0123456789 

# Get the Document Settings BaseContainer
bcDoc = doc.GetDocumentData( c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT )
bcDoc[ myPLUGIN_ID ] = bcDATAS # Store plugin container inside the document container

# Save the updated Document BC
op.SetData( bcDoc )
        
# To retrieve a data
print ( op.GetData()[ myPLUGIN_ID ][ myData ] )

Hi @orestiskon,

From what I learnt recently, if you have more than one data to store, you can create a sub container of the base container identified by the pluginID.

I can't remember where I read that... just be careful I'm not an advanced C4D developer

In a class for a BaseTag I use this like that,

        self.bcDATAS = c4d.BaseContainer()
        self.bcDATAS[ myData ] = "A string for example"
        # Be sure to use a unique ID obtained at https://plugincafe.maxon.net/c4dpluginid_cp
        myPLUGIN_ID = 0123456789 

        # Get the Document Settings BaseContainer
        self.bcDoc = doc.GetDocumentData( c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT )
        self.bcDoc[ myPLUGIN_ID ] = self.bcDATAS # Store plugin container inside the document container

        # Save the updated Document BC
        op.SetData( self.bcDoc )
        
        # To retrieve a data
        print ( op.GetData()[ myPLUGIN_ID ][ myData ] )

Cheers,

Christophe

Hi @m_adam,

Good point, here the content for the both files.
This .res is for a BaseList2D so SCALEFIT do not apply there.

I hope it will helps...
Thanks,

Christophe

TmotionLab.res

STRINGTABLE TmotionLab
{

    TmotionLab                  "Plugin";
    mPLUGIN_DEF                 "";
    
    mGRPSCENE                   "Scene informations";
    mGRPAXIS                    "Axis";

    mPROJECT                    "Project";
    mSCENE                      "Scene  ";
    mTAKE                       "Take   ";

    mAXIS_EN                    "Enabling";
    mAXIS_MOTION                "Motion";
    
    mENPOS                      "Translation";
    mTRANSLATION                "XYZ Translation";
    mEN_TX                      "tX";
    mEN_TY                      "tY";
    mEN_TZ                      "tZ";
    mROTATION                   "XYZ Rotation    ";
    mENROT                      "Rotation    ";
    mEN_RX                      "rX";
    mEN_RY                      "rY";
    mEN_RZ                      "rZ";

    mTX                         "tX";
    mTY                         "tY";
    mTZ                         "tZ";
    mRX                         "rX";
    mRY                         "rY";
    mRZ                         "rZ";

    mREMOVE_MOTION              "Remove motion";
}

And the TmotionLab.h,

#pragma once

enum
{
    TmotionLab = 1000,
    mPLUGIN_DEF,

    mGRPSCENE = 1100,
    mGRPAXIS,

    mPROJECT = 1200,
    mSCENE,
    mTAKE,

    mSEP_GRP_A = 1300,
    mSEP_GRP_B,

    mTRANSLATION = 1400,
    mENPOS,
    mROTATION = 1450,
    mENROT,

    mEN_TX = 1500,
    mEN_TY,
    mEN_TZ,

    mEN_RX = 1600,
    mEN_RY,
    mEN_RZ,

    mTX = 2000,
    mTY,
    mTZ,

    mRX = 2200,
    mRY,
    mRZ,

    mREMOVE_MOTION = 5000,
};

Dear community,

I getting on fight with my .res file and I still don't get the result I want.
I would like to use 2 columns formatting and get the elements spreads on those columns, but for an unknown reason, the space filled by the columns are not as wide as the dialog itself.

I really tried many options on the GROUP mGRPAXIS, with SCALE_H; on REALSLIDER elements or on the subgroups without success. Is that a limitation of the .RES / SDK in Python or is there a trick?
In the meantime, all the elements of GROUP mGRPSCENE are properly formatted.

Here the code of the .res file and the result I'm getting as a screenshoot. It's a work in progress dialog, but I would really like to understand if there is a way to get this or not? Can the sliders columns be as wide as the dialog?

CONTAINER TmotionLab {
    
    NAME TmotionLab;

    GROUP {

        SEPARATOR { }
        STATICTEXT mPLUGIN_DEF                  {  }
        SEPARATOR { }
        
        GROUP mGRPSCENE {
            DEFAULT 1;

            GROUP {
                STRING mPROJECT                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
            }
            GROUP {
                COLUMNS 2;

                STRING mSCENE                   { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                LONG mTAKE                      { MIN 1; MAX 200; STEP 1; ANIM OFF; }
            }
        }

        GROUP mGRPAXIS {
            DEFAULT 1;
            SEPARATOR mSEP_GRP_A                { NAME mAXIS_EN; LINE; SCALE_H; FIT_H; }

            GROUP {
                COLUMNS 2;
                LAYOUTGROUP;
                
                GROUP {
                    STATICTEXT mENPOS           { SCALE_H; }
                    BOOL mEN_TX                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                    BOOL mEN_TY                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                    BOOL mEN_TZ                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                }
                GROUP {
                    STATICTEXT mENROT           { SCALE_H; }
                    BOOL mEN_RX                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                    BOOL mEN_RY                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                    BOOL mEN_RZ                 { ANIM OFF; SCALE_H; }
                }
            }
        
            SEPARATOR mSEP_GRP_B                { NAME mAXIS_MOTION; LINE; SCALE_H; FIT_H; }   

            GROUP {
                COLUMNS 2;
                LAYOUTGROUP;

                GROUP {
                    STATICTEXT mTRANSLATION     { SCALE_H; }
                    REAL mTX                    { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
                    REAL mTY                    { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
                    REAL mTZ                    { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H; }
                }

                GROUP {
                    STATICTEXT mROTATION        { SCALE_H; }
                    REAL mRX                    { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; }
                    REAL mRY                    { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; }
                    REAL mRZ                    { MIN -100.0; MAX 100.0; UNIT PERCENT; CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; }
                }
            }

            SEPARATOR                           { LINE; SCALE_H; }
            BUTTON mREMOVE_MOTION               { ANIM OFF; }
        }
    }
}

Thanks a lot,
Christophe

Hello @ferdinand, thanks a lot for your time and reply.
I indeed discovered that the code was for Python 2 when I went I bit further in the code analysis.
I thought it was a c4d library, and that's was my mistake and indeed it was totally out of the scope to place it here; sorry.
In the meantime, I got rid of that class and made my own iterator method - not a class itself like you did to update the old one (but that's also a good idea).

It was quite easy to iterate all the tags by simply use GetTags() which gives the following,

          tags = obj.GetTags()
                if tags is not None:
                    for tag in tags:
                        print (tag.GetTypeName() + " found") 
                        self.tagList.append(tag)

Thanks for your time!
Christophe