BitmapButtonCustomGui.SetImage was just extended in R21 to support c4d.IconData as well, but the behavior didn't changed. I guess the issue is more related to R21 What is News - Fixes Fixed a memory leak in bitmaps.InitResourceBitmap(). So basically previously c4d.bitmaps.InitResourceBitmap produced a memory leak where the allocated BaseBitmap was never released, so that's why previously without copying it, it was working. But you should pass True to copyBmp to copy the BaseBitmap now since the BaseBitmap will be released at the destruction of icon variable by the Python Garbage Collection, but if you don't copy it, the BitmapButtonCustomGui will still use the previous BaseBitmap pointer, which will produce a crash since it will be dead. Glad you found the issue. Cheers, Maxime.

HI R. I already used the BitmapButtonCustomGui for my dialog. Just i got some Gui corruption problems so I tried to switch to standard button... but the corruption of gui was not caused by it. Thanks for your answer. Renato T.

@m_magalhaes Hello, Thank you so much.

@r_gigante Maybe a little late, but thanks for the info anyway. Always useful, and much appreciated! I went with a custom implementation using a BaseArray to store the information, and from there used the specific index in the array as the value in an HashMap Instead of the wanted: maxon::HashMap<Int32, DataStruct> mymap; I went with: class MyHashMap { ... maxon::BaseArray<DataStruct> mArray; maxon::HashMap<Int32, Int32> mArrayIndexMap; }; This is more or less what you have described. The only drawback here is that I still haven't found out how to implement range-based loop support ... but I went with using the old-fashioned indexed loop usage. Good enough for its purpose.

@jcooper said in How to set completely custom render output filename?: How do I control how much zero-padding is used for the $frame token? We typically use 4-digit, zero-padded frame tokens, but what if a situation called for, say, 6 digits? Hi John, with regard to the $frametoken the zero-padding is hardcoded but as stated by @zipit you can workaround it by registering your token (see here) . How do I get at the RenderData for a specific renderer such as Redshift? For instance, it has its own "filename" attribute, but I don't know how to access/modify it from the python API. You need to retrieve the RedShift BaseVideoPost and retrieve the corresponding data from its BaseContainer. Check the code below # Get the active RenderData renderData = doc.GetActiveRenderData() if renderData is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to retrieve the render data.") # Get the active render settings renderSettings = renderData.GetData() if renderSettings is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to retrieve the render settings.") # Get the first video post videopost = renderData.GetFirstVideoPost() if videopost is None: raise RuntimeError("Failed to retrieve the videopost associated with the render data.") # Search for the RedShift videopost while videopost is not None and videopost.GetType() != 1036219: print "RedShift is not set as renderer in the active RenderData, check next" videopost = videopost.GetNext() rsAOV = None # Retrieve the AOV -> Filname param value if videopost is not None and videopost.GetType() == 1036219: rsAOV = videopost[c4d.REDSHIFT_RENDERER_AOV_PATH] # Reads the path stored in the render setting path = renderSettings[c4d.RDATA_PATH] # Add token to the path path = path + rsAOV # Tokenizes the path from the render engine rpd = {'_doc': doc, '_rData': renderData, '_rBc': renderSettings, '_frame': 1} exclude = [] finalFilename = c4d.modules.tokensystem.FilenameConvertTokensFilter(path, rpd, exclude)+".png" print finalFilename

Just FYI: you find that information regarding ./res/libs/win64 in the documentation: Development for Microsoft Window

Hey, I understand your frustration unfortunately here Python is not to blame but Cinema 4D API in general since Python is only a subset of the C++ API and you have the same limitation (in your case) in C++. But yes we try to improve. Cheers, Maxime.

It could be. I never got around to investigating it any further. But if/when I do I will have a look at that flag for sure. Since in my tests there was definitely something going on with the polygon indices. Thanks for investigating this further and also for reporting your findings. Really helpful.

@Cairyn Ah youre right, the Return was the cause of the errors, not the triple quotes. Got it all working now! (after taking a few tries to get the "indents" with the strings right) Thanks a ton!

@esan said in OperatorSetData for "Lists"?: Another quick question. is there still a bug on c4d.GV_OBJECT_OPERATOR_OBJECT_OUT? Yes it's still there and being R20 maintenance ended it's likely to remain. Best, R

You are right. self.width = c4d.gui.SizePix(w) self.height = c4d.gui.SizePix(h) self.color = color wasn't actually used. Will close this thread now and crawl to my little cave of shame. lol

@m_adam said in How to create splitted dialog window: But in any case, here it's how it works. Thank you very much, Maxime! Great example!

Hi @blastframe this is also the behavior of AutoKey in the Editor, so I would say is not an API issue. But you can use BaseDocument.Record to simulate the click of AddKeyFrame (but of course correct parameter have to be checked). Cheers, Maxime.

@m_adam Thanks for the response. For some reason, the return value is not accepted by the SetFont. It does not error out. It just uses the default font. In addition, how were you able to determine that the [508] is for the font name? I can't seem to see such reference in the documentation. You can check the working code here: import c4d from c4d import gui # Welcome to the world of Python def GetSegoeUiBoldFont(): bcFonts = c4d.bitmaps.GeClipMap.EnumerateFonts(c4d.GE_CM_FONTSORT_HIERARCHICAL) for familyId, familyBc in bcFonts: for fontDescriptionId, fontDescription in familyBc: if fontDescription[508] == "SegoeUI-Bold": return fontDescription print fontDescription def main(): w = 50 h = 50 image_with_text = c4d.bitmaps.GeClipMap() image_with_text.Init(w=w,h=h,bits=32) image_with_text.BeginDraw() image_with_text.SetColor(125,255,255) image_with_text.FillRect(x1=0,y1=0,x2=50,y2=50) image_with_text.SetColor(0,0,0) font_bc = GetSegoeUiBoldFont() print font_bc font_size = 15 image_with_text.SetFont(font_bc,font_size) image_with_text.TextAt(x=10,y=15,txt='head') image_with_text.EndDraw() bmp = image_with_text.GetBitmap() c4d.bitmaps.ShowBitmap(bmp) # Execute main() if __name__=='__main__': main()

I found the problem this is not the issue.

Just for future reference ... The topic's tag indicates this to be "solved" when it definitely isn't. But as this is a R16 issue only I guess no further time will be taken to figure out why this issue exists in R16 and not in newer releases. Also, there is currently no workaround as far as I know. The only thing one can do is check for the current C4D version running and avoid writing to a MultipassBitmap.

Thanks @m_adam. First time using the c4d.DrawViews(). It works as expected. Thanks for the introduction.

Hello, as Riccardo has pointed out, AdditionalIncludeDirectories has nothing to do with DLLs. It is used to define search paths for header files. See Additional include directories. It was never valid. Also, looking at the error, the plugin was installed into the C:/Program Files folder. In R21, there is no reason to install plugins there; one can install plugins at any location and just tell Cinema 4D the plugin path. best wishes, Sebastian

Hi Maxime, thanks a lot! Both are valid solutions for me. Very helpful. Cheers

@blastframe @m_magalhaes Thanks for the response and the confirmation that Undo is not included in the GeDialog(GUI). That said the supplied code works on my use case. Thanks again!