@iluxa7k said in Faster way of checking if dialog has closed?: LP_c_long Long story short it's a pointer http://makble.com/the-story-of-lpclong, and I think the method provided by Zipit is the best one, since as he said there is no way to control the behavior of an external (from your plugin) GeDialog. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi Cayring this is indeed a bug I'm going to report them and fix them (both for BaseMaterial and shader) as soon as possible If you have other cases like that please report them. I set the topic as solved, I will bump this topic once the fix will be available. Cheers, Maxime.

@PluginStudent and @m_adam The plugin from @noseman works. It works for now in my use case, but correct me if I'm wrong it cannot have a priority parameter because it is a generator (?). Regards, Ben

@m_adam Thank you for the confirmation and the reading suggestions. Just for context, this is a general conceptual question and not connected to a specific code issue. I noticed the behavior while doing some test scripts with id() and is. It is worth noting that these Python properties need to be used carefully in concert with C4D objects. (I wouldn't exactly recommend using pointer comparisons in C++ either ) I will include an "advanced" chapter in my Python/C4D book to mention this.

The source code of the C++ version of CompareFloatTolerant() is actually available in the frameworks\cinema.framework\source\ge_ieee.cpp and/or \frameworks\core.framework\source\maxon\general_math.cpp file of the C++ SDK. I assume the Python version just calls the C++ function.

Thanks for the confirmation. I shall treat the extra link directions as nonexistent then

Brah... Third time spent fighting with stupid typos! : @PluginStudent @zipit @r_gigante many thanks! I didn't assume you are using the same system inside the program and had no thought to take a look there! Seems adding the "," helped it. And, as I see, you must enumerate all the elements in your .h file, but though you can leave id blank. Thank you! %\

Hi, @lasselauch as a rule of thumb with Python2.7 always store data as a Unicode string. Control your IO which means, for each, Input make sure you know the encoding in all cases by always calling .decode('utf-8') so you are sure to store a Unicode value and get an error if something went wrong at a loading time. Then output the content according to your need some need ASCII, some can work with unicode, but do the conversion on the fly, don't touch you stored Unicode data. For the francophone people, there is this fabulous article about unicode Encoding in Python for English I guess the best I found on this topic is A Guide to Unicode, UTF-8, and Strings in Python. Cheers, Maxime.

Hi, without further feedback, I'll set this thread as solved tomorrow. Cheers, Maxime

hi, without futher feedback from you i'll set this thread to solved. Cheers, Manuel

Hi, thanks a lot. I've opened a bug entry for that one. It will be fixed in a futur release. Cheers, Manuel

@m_adam I still don't understand how to get the id of parameters? How do I know that this parameter has id 500?

hi, without further feedback i'll set this thread as solved tomorrow. Cheer, Manuel

@m_adam Dear Maxime thanks for everything! But, unfortunally now that I almost finished this part I realized that all this scripting doen't give me the desired procedural result. It just changes the values once but if i change the values of the PARENT object the OBJECT_A (child) is not updated... Anyway I have to approach it in a different way. I think I should tag this thread as "SOLVED" and in case I need again help i create a new one. Please advise me Maxime. And for one more time THANK YOU both , Maxime and Zipit

Hi, without further feedback, we will consider this thread as solved by tomorrow and flag it accordingly. Cheers, Ferdinand

@m_adam Thank you!

Yes, I use the auto way. I thought that using ScrollArea() it would only display that part (no need to draw the other parts). So, fill the virtual UA once and then display parts of it using ScrollArea(). But if "you still need to draw completely the GeUserArea with all the DrawBitmap", there will be no speed benefit. I will try it under R21 and will read "Profiling Python Plugins". Thank you, Pim [image: 1586507628642-24fbc034-a80c-42f0-acb3-77deffeadaec-image.png]

It's actually due to a lower number of bits used to store the floating value.

Thanks! seems to work well! the problem is that apparently it only runs on the tag, if I set the option as a UserData of my object, it doesn't work

While the method provided by Zipit Is fine, it is not 100% reliable. here how to achieve, unfortunately, the ELEMENT_Count value is hardcoded and no way for you to retrieve it. constraintTag = doc.GetActiveTag() targetCount = constraintTag[c4d.ID_CA_CONSTRAINT_TAG_PARENT_TARGET_COUNT] for i in range(targetCount): CONSTRAINT_ELEMENT = 10 # This is hardcoded targetId = c4d.ID_CA_CONSTRAINT_TAG_PARENT_TARGET_COUNT + i * CONSTRAINT_ELEMENT + 1 print(constraintTag[targetId]) Cheers, Maxime.