arff, that's really strange, I'll send you a simple example and see if the error still happen on your system.

@m_adam MODELINGCOMMANDFLAGS::NONE works! Thanks again for helping me out!

Thanks for confirming that this approach looks correct! "never use NULL to check your pointers against to or to assign it to your pointers: rather prefer using nullptr cause while the first comes from a define the second is a built-in pointer type." -Thanks, noted! "with regard to the last implementation, why not using:" -Because we only want to check the next object (obj=obj->GetNext()) if "inCache" is true. Otherwise, the function would not only check the object passed to the function and its cache, but also all subsequent objects on the same level of the hierarchy.

Hi Manuel and @rb_rodrigo, Many thanks for the tips about the Python console and help with the code. I'm a beginner (not even that!) in scripting, so much appreciated. It works as expected now! Cheers, Frederik

Hello everyone. Will be ever C4D for Linux with GUI from Maxon? Not wine emulation. Sometimes want to switch linux.

hi, without feedback, i'll set this thread to solved tomorrow. Cheers, Manuel

@m_magalhaes said in Trigger Tag: I though you were using a hidden BaseLink parameter on your tag to point to the other tag. Ah, didn't think about that. Clever.

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.

Thanks, Paul! I'll try that out Cheers, Frank

Hi Frank sorry for the delay needed for this issue, I get the time to look at it, and this is the thing I should have checked first, but either in a GeDialog with a Layout created in a script, I'm not able to hide a tab. Since you said it was working previously, could you confirm you don't want to hide only the content (in your case the 3 StaticText) but also the tab in the tab entry, isn't? If yes could you provide a code sample because I would say even in a normal case I'm not able to reproduce. import c4d class Dlg(c4d.gui.GeDialog): def CreateLayout(self): if self.TabGroupBegin(10001, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, tabtype=c4d.TAB_TABS): if self.GroupBegin(10010, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, 0, title="First Tab"): self.AddStaticText(10011, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, name="Text01") self.GroupEnd() if self.GroupBegin(10020, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, 0, title="Second Tab"): self.AddStaticText(10021, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, name="Text02") self.GroupEnd() self.GroupEnd() self.AddButton(10030, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, name="Remove First Tab") return True def Command(self, id, msg): if id == 10030: print self.HideElement(10010, True) print self.LayoutChanged(10001) return True def main(): global dlg dlg = Dlg() dlg.Open(c4d.DLG_TYPE_ASYNC) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main() To me, the only way to remove a tab is to flush the complete group master of the TabGroup and re-add tabs except for the one you don't want. Cheers, Maxime.

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

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

@m_magalhaes Thanks for the example. I am sure this will be helpful in future, however for now I am still stuck with the classic API to remain backwards compatible. While there isn't a readily available solution to the problem, a few options have been mentioned how to handle this. As such I will set the topic as solved.

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