Thanks zipit and Maxime, I use the MSG_BASECONTAINER solution now, thanks for the example ! one question here: you always return True from the message() function is that necessary? the docs here https://developers.maxon.net/docs/py/2023_2/manuals/introduction/python_tag.html?highlight=python plugin just says : Return type: bool Returns: Depends on the message type. ... and a bit off topic : is there a message, when a python tag or generator gets enabled / disabled by the (generator) switch in the object manager? can i catch that?

yupyup, BaseSelect has no connection to the original object it actually selects from, not even in the cases where you get a pointer to the BaseSelect returned and change the selection directly through it. That's why we need the max parameter for SelectAll and ToggleAll -- the BaseSelect doesn't know what "all" even is. (Not GetLastElement()!) For GetRange() though, that reasoning does not apply. Now let's see whether I can crash C4D with inconsistent edge selections...

Hi: This is a bit of a hassle, but can still be scripted, who CARES about an extra polygon. import c4d def main(): polygons = op.GetAllPolygons() points = op.GetAllPoints() point = [c4d.Vector(10000, 10000, 10000),c4d.Vector(9999, 10000,10000), c4d.Vector(9999, 10000, 10001),c4d.Vector(10000, 10000, 10001)] point_indexe = [[len(points) + i ,point[i]] for i in range(len(point))] op.ResizeObject(len(points) + len(point),len(polygons) + 1) set_point = [op.SetPoint(k[0], k[1]) for k in point_indexe] op.Message(c4d.MSG_UPDATE) c4d.EventAdd() if __name__=='__main__': main()

@gheyret great to hear! Looking forward to seeing what it is you are creating.

Thank you so much, this works like a charm!!!

@m_magalhaes Thanks, Manuel!

@m_adam Thank you for the update, Maxime!

hi can we considered this thread as resolved ? Cheers, Manuel

@android Here's a thread for reference regarding the limitation of a Generator spline: https://developers.maxon.net/forum/topic/12596/is-it-possible-to-get-a-spline-wrap-object-to-use-a-python-generated-spline

Hi, jeah, that is probably somewhat the reason. Although Python has true statically typed arrays, which also can be used to directly in-place manipulate C arrays (i.e. array.array), from what I understand it is quite cumbersome to achieve such linkage. This is probably the reason why Maxon does not bother in this case and others like for example vertex colors. Including these access points is still a bit puzzling though. Maybe they are somehow used internally? But I cannot think of a case where this would make sense. Cheers, zipit

hi, Group is the key in UI. Simply add a SCALE_H; property for your slider. so for that two columns group, the slider will take all the place minus the button. GROUP { COLUMNS 2; REAL ONEFLOAT { CUSTOMGUI REALSLIDER; SCALE_H;} BITMAPBUTTON BUTTON_ID { SIZE 16; TOGGLE; BUTTON; ICONID1 5160; ICONID2 5159; } } Cheers, Manuel

@m_magalhaes Thanks! It works as expected. So that's what you mean by UniformToNatural. Basically, even if the segment guides are not the same as spline points, it will conform to its overall shape.

hi, everything have been said, nothing to add here Cheers, Manuel

hi, Since R20, arguments have been added, and the problem is coming from the last one def HeaderClick(self, root, userdata, lColID, lChannel, bDblClk, mouseX, mouseY, ua): I've opened a bug report Cheers, Manuel

@ivodow how is your ConsolePrint() different to a simple print() statement? in my test i didn''t get a real time output with ConsolePrint() best, index

Hi, This have been fixe and will be available in a futur update. Cheers, Manuel

hi can we considered this thread as solved ? (even if there's no real right answer) Cheers, Manuel

hi, except what @zipit said, there's nothing outof the box that you can use in our API to do it. You have to come with your own solution. Remotion have create such a tool few years ago: https://bitbucket.org/remotion/code-editor-gui-for-c4d/downloads/ I would say that it's not really hard to do, it's just long and during the path you are walking to build such a tool, you could find some walls that you didn't expect ^^' I would start using the function GetDParameter, check the content and change the color of some words accordingly. Cheers, Manuel

@m_magalhaes said in Change the default name of ID_OBJECTPROPERTIES: DEFAULT 1; Thank you much.

hi, you have to save the document to memory and use the result to merge the document. When you merge, you have to set the flags to what you want to merge, otherwise it will not merge what you want. On this example i'm merging a document with another selected document. import c4d from c4d import gui # Welcome to the world of Python # Main function def main(): obj = doc.GetActiveObject() if obj is None: return # Isolate the active object isolateDoc = c4d.documents.IsolateObjects(doc, [obj]) # Creates the Memory File Strcuture mfs = c4d.storage.MemoryFileStruct() # Sets the mfs to write mode mfs.SetMemoryWriteMode() # save the document to mfs c4d.documents.SaveDocument(isolateDoc, mfs, c4d.SAVEDOCUMENTFLAGS_DONTADDTORECENTLIST, c4d.FORMAT_C4DEXPORT) # retrieve the data data = mfs.GetData() # Set the MFS to read mode mfs.SetMemoryReadMode(data[0], data[1] ) flags = c4d.SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS # Load Document selectedFile = c4d.storage.LoadDialog() if selectedFile is None: return newDoc = c4d.documents.LoadDocument(selectedFile, flags) #Merge the isolated document with the current one. c4d.documents.MergeDocument(newDoc, mfs, flags) c4d.documents.InsertBaseDocument(newDoc) c4d.documents.SetActiveDocument(newDoc) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main() Cheers, Manuel