Hi,

Are you using the Spline GUI inside a dialog? It looks like so if there's no arrow.
If that's the case you can call SetLayoutMode(c4d.LAYOUTMODE_MINIMIZED) on the Spline custom GUI to change its layout to the minimized/spline element only.

@ello said in debugging question:

when i hover for example RNDOFFSET in visual studio i get enum <unnamed>::RNDOFFSET = 1029

does this unnamed part cause something?

No, it doesn't cause anything. It just means the symbol is defined in an unnamed enum. We avoid such nowadays (improved error checking, easier to debug), but they don't do any harm.

furthermore, since this is a plugin collection the name RNDOFFSET is indeed used with another id in another plugin. does this play a role? i thought that only included files are taken into account?

Well, I doubt so, but it may. The point is using unique IDs per BaseContainer. And to access a certain ID always with the same type (you could change the type, but let's leave this aside for now). So for a single BaseContainer Is try to make sure and check, that one ID (I mean the symbol or name like RNDOFFSET) is always accessed with the same type, and that no two symbols have identical ID values, so you do not access the same BaseContainer entry with two different names (lets say RNDOFFSET_INT and RNDOFFSET_VEC) but maybe different types.

here is a screenshot for the actual issue

From briefly looking at the screenshot on my mobile, it does not give me an additional clue. I recommend to add the debugger console to your layout. Usually we print some extra info there, when we run into a Critical Stop.

Bye,
Andreas

Hi,

As I turned this discussion into a Q&A topic, if you're satisfied with my last post's solution then you can mark it as the correct answer or mark the topic as solved.
For more information see Q&A New Functionality.

@s_bach, thank you, I'll start to do some hard reading!

@s_bach said in Which message do I receive when a command plugin dialog is closed?:

DestroyWindow

Thanks.
By the way, compliments on the latest R20 C++ manual. It is great!

Thanks @r_gigante that's what I thought.

In our case it was a bit more complex but we managed to bypass the issue using load delay dlls.

Thank you all!

Sorry 🙂

@a_block

No inconvenience at all, just happy to hear it's not only me! 😄

Hi @eZioPan
thank you for this example very clear 😉

Hi,

yes, you are right, this is currently not supported. I have filed an "idea" for our development.

Cheers,
Andreas

Hi,

in general your approach looks correct to us.

Somehow I'm starting to regret we have a thoughtful and attentive community here. We can not hide a single change/omission in the docs without any one of you finding out about it... sigh! 😉

Yes, indeed the "Move/Copy Constructors" manual has been removed from the R20 docs, as it needed thorough review and at least partly rewriting we did not find the time for, yet. But it wasn't removed without at least partial replacement. Especially for your case the BaseArray manual contains a section on implementing classes for use with BaseArray.

Thanks for the idea of a "documentation issue" tag.

Cheers,
Andreas

@y_puech said in ParseTupleAndKeywords in R20:

Hi Victor,

There's a logic error in the code you posted from the first post. The condition for R20 if (str.IsEmpty()!=false) returns false if the string has content.
It makes more sense to call IsPopulated() for the R20 code instead of IsEmpty().

You are right, thank you!!!

One last note. I just tried this on OSX and it works fine. So it is just an issue for Windows machines and whatever version of IE the widget is using.

Awesome! Thanks.

Regards
Bonsak

Hi Rage,

Unfortunately several importers and exporters do not have a constant for their ID. This is the case for FBX.
The ID for the FBX exporter is 1026370.

To find the ID of a specific exporter you can use the following code:

import c4d saverPlugs = c4d.plugins.FilterPluginList(c4d.PLUGINTYPE_SCENESAVER, True) for plug in saverPlugs: print('{} : {}'.format(plug.GetName(), plug.GetID()))

I turned the topic into a Q&A. Please remind to use this feature of the forum.

@m_adam thanks so much for all your help on this!

Ah! So event_data['msg_data']['id'] is the id of the userdata.
Didnt read your code comments 🙂
Thanks alot!

Regards
Bonsak

Hi,

A string with format "PLUGIN_CMD_123456" is meant to be used with MENURESOURCE_COMMAND, not RegisterCommandPlugin().
It tells Cinema the command ID and name for the menu item to be added.
Note the sub-IDs returned from GetSubContainer() are specific to a command and aren't global to Cinema.

Maybe CommandData isn't what you really need. Scripts from the user folder are automatically loaded and can be added to any menu using Customize Menus dialog.

Hi,

first of all thanks to @Cairyn for nice explanations and helping in solving this.

I'd just like to add a link to one of our examples, pretty much demonstrating this workflow: mengersponge.py (plus the scene file).

@Jvos : I hope you don't mind, may I ask you to please open a new topic for unrelated topics/questions.
I have also moved this thread into the Cinema 4D Development category, added some tags and turned the thread into a question.

Cheers,
Andreas