Hi Ferdinand, Thanks a lot for your in-depth answer! I was assuming it was possible, but now I know for sure! Cheers, Casimir Smets

@ferdinand Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Will close this thread now.

@ferdinand Thanks for that solution. It's happy to hear that , I do try to make win-win clear post as I can to don't waste our time , hope it's a worthy work I tested the new GetUpdatedInexcludeData function , it worked well , The "click twice" thing never happen again . It's the None condition I didn't realize before . It does happend when no or single object in the list . And for the "odd place" and the "exception ", it is a test to make sure all the things above work well( after that are all the settings ) . I forgot move to the right place . sorry to that Thanks for the caring code for c4d.utils.DegToRad(360) , I haven't notice this before and just stupid import radians

Hi @Dunhou you can't control the Make Preview plugin, you have to rewrite the function yourself with all the tips previously shared in this topic. Cheers, Maxime.

I want to finish with this in case someone reads it. Years ago, I asked about the outdated methods when using these techniques. I tried to adjust the depth of the IK spline controls with the actual length of the spline itself. Today, I understand my mistake, as I was trying something that didn’t make logical sense. At the time, I thought it was the best option for what I was looking for. In short, this was never a problem, and the low response time is normal because the length depends on the depth of the controls. I thought there would be a solution, but choosing this path was not useful. In conclusion, what eventually satisfied my requirements was directly referencing the angles of the controls, meaning identifying how oriented each control is to another. I took this angle and used it as a factor to multiply by the depth. This model is much more logical and doesn’t have any flaws. At the time, I couldn’t think of a direct solution, but I didn’t want to leave this post like that. Thanks anyway, Ferdinand, for trying to help me. Cheers JH

Hi @ferdinand , Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I was looking for ! flags: c4d.BaseContainer = c4d.BaseContainer() flags[c4d.FILENAME_DIRECTORY] = True # Add a CUSTOMGUI_FILENAME with our flags settings. self.AddCustomGui(id=MyDialog.ID_FILENAME, pluginid=c4d.CUSTOMGUI_FILENAME, name="Path", flags=c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, minw=0, minh=0, customdata=flags)

No worries, everything is fine, that is what we are here for, to clear up things. When you have questions I encourage you to open a new thread so that we can see what we can do. And this is also an open forum, so you can ask questions to the community if you want to. But unless pointed out specifically otherwise, we assume things to be support requests. Cheers, Ferdinand

@ferdinand Wow~ Thank you so much bro

@Manuel Ah gotcha. It's only available R26 onwards. That's why I can't see something related in my R25 documentation.

@Manuel Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the trouble. Works as expected. Will close this thread now.

Got it. Thank you.

@ferdinand Uhm. It's not as complicated as that. I mean it is complicated per se but there are already existing solutions. Check "Sphinx Search Extension". There are several. Pip install it and just insert it into the conf.py file. Also, it's not really as spicing it up per se. I mean it is but not really. It's just adding a sub paragraph section. The maxon redshift documentation is already doing it. And even if you are using sphinx implementation, it's also existing. Blender documentation is built using sphinx. [image: 1666619696194-8579cd6b-d0a4-4844-9563-5ee4d390a1e3-image.png]

Thanks! Sorry, I am so careless that I ignore the message "Needs to be called before the change.". No worries, you are not the first one who trips over Undo call order, including myself at some point

@ferdinand thx very much! ill save this

@manuel ah gotcha. the node kinda. thanks. will close this thread for now.

@ferdinand Thanks a lot Ferdinand for this detailed and complete answer! This is exactly what I hoped to do! I tested the code and it works great! Since a few of the fixes you use are not recommended, i will solve it in another way for now, until it gets fixed for python, or i switch to C++. I got my plugin doing what i want, for the moment. Pretty sure this will also help someone else in the future. Have a nice day!

hi, There are no particular reasons. Muting a connection is less intuitive than connect two nodes. If there was a function like Connect to mute the connexion, we would not have created that example neither. Cheers, Manuel

@fwilleke80 Gotcha thanks for the confirmation. So I guess they don't host it online? But man they are already using sphinx. They can easily have a button to switch to previous versions. But oh well.

Thank you for the elaborate reply, it worked! (And helped me to better understand the desc id system)

Hello @lingza, Thank you for reaching out to us. In short, what you want to do is unfortunately not possible. To unpack things a bit, I understood your question as such that you have multiple view panels in your layout and each view panel contains multiple views. The screen below shows two view panels with four views each for example. [image: 1665048050441-screenshot-2022-10-06-at-11.20.38.png] You then want to toggle a view panel from showing all its views (depending on the panel layout) to singular one, e.g., "minimize and maximize" the Perspective view in the second panel. For that you wanted to use c4d.CallCommand(13640) and therefore need to set the active view (the view with the grey border). Internally, there is a non-public method called BaseDocument::SetActiveView which handles setting the selected viewport and one has more or less all tools in the Python SDK to replicate it (you more or less just have to set BIT_ACTIVE and send some messages). And while doing this will have some effect on the selection state of viewports, it will not be identical to what you can achieve with mouse interactions, and running then your CallCommand(13640) on such 'semi-selected' viewport will not have the desired effect. In the end, the viewport selection state is bound to a very specific call chain in our internal API. Which is probably the reason why the method BaseDocument::SetActiveView remains non-public. FYI: This is not a Python issue, the same applies to C++, I tried it there too, to the same effect. Cheers, Ferdinand