Is it possible to save and load the group window in a way similar to the l4d files?

Hey @Deyan,

Thank you for reaching out to us. The answer for public users is, no, you cannot do that, and even with a bit deeper access this will be tricky.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Hi @ferdinand ,

Thank you for clarifying. I needed a solution for my tool to determine which track/key is displayed&selected.
But if I can't do that in user mode, I'll make sure my tools don't work when the timeline is in user mode.

Thanks for the response. I'll see if this does what I need it to

John Thomas

Hello @gaschka,

Thank you for reaching out to us. Yes, this is an encoding issue. In general, Unicode is supported by the Python to C++ bindings, as you can see, French, German, and Turkish diacritics are all correctly transported, as well as Chinese characters.

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But all these are part of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) while the emojis are part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) of the Unicode table. It could either be that there is something not implemented or some bits get chopped off while data is sent to the C++ layer. I don't really know, the person who is responsible for the Python bindings, @m_adam, is on vacation. I will ask him once he is back, as I too would be guessing what is happening here exactly.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Hello @momoko,

Thank you for reaching out to us. I understand that especially when getting familiar with a new API that the thirst for knowledge is immeasurable and the questions are uncountable but I must also point out our Support Guidelines here, especially our Support Topic Rules. A support topic should be mono-thematic, i.e., usually have one question only. If you have multiple questions, please open multiple topics.

Please also make sure that your questions are repeatable as outlined in the guidelines. Usually this means complete code. I can guess from the context in this case that you are talking about GeDialog but I might not be able to in a more complex case.

How can I make a static text bold? I tried some common methods in Python but they didn't work!

I am not sure what you mean with common methods in Python, but you can make a static text font bold by a bit counterintuitively setting its border style. There is no italic option and bold emphasis should be used only very selectively.

self.AddStaticText(id=2001, flags=c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, name="Hello World", borderstyle=c4d.BORDER_WITH_TITLE_BOLD)

How can I add an icon to a button without using custom icons? Does Cinema4D provide any default icon like Blender?

I am not 100% sure how this is meant. Buttons with icons and text are a bit atypical in Cinema 4D and usually only appear in palettes. The standard dialog button cannot have an icon. But you can use a CUSTOMGUI_BITMAPBUTTON, but they are not really meant to have a caption. You can find a Python example here.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

@i_mazlov thank you very much

Hi @del,

It's hard to predict future changes. It's likely the c4d.ID_BASELIST_ICON_COLORIZE_MODE_CUSTOM + 1 approach would stay untouched for the compatibility reasons, but who knows if there'd be any change requests that'd break this.

Cheers,
Ilia

@Dunhou @i_mazlov Thank you guys!

Hello @merkvilson,

Thank you for reaching out to us. Please put more effort into making yourself understood. While we prefer short and precise questions we do not want to guess what users mean.

I assume you are talking here about the "Sound group" of the Sound Effector. But it has no "Volume" parameter, neither in this "Sound group", nor somewhere else in the object. The catch is here that "Sound" is not just a foldable group. Because we can select it (see screen below), we know it must be data type.

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Being set is here a c4d.SoundEffectorData instance, with it you can control the details in this sound section.

To discover parameter values, please follow our Python Console: Parameter Drag & Drop manual.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

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About your First Question

Thanks to @Dunhou for providing correct solution!

Cheers,
Ilia

Hi @i_mazlov ,

Sadly the GenerateDragData() not work in python, I had try the c4d.DRAGTYPE_FILENAME_SCENE, but it will return bad without GenerateDragData(),seems nothing we can do here.

Cheers~
DunHou

Hi！@ferdinand
Yes , That's what i want to do!
I never didn't know LV_CHECKBOX_HIDE would work with LV_SLIDER, I simply assumed that it would only work with LV_CHECKBOX and LV_CHECKBOXUSER.
But anyway i test it in my code , and it works perfectly!
Thank you so much for your reply.😁

Cheers~

Hey @Aaron,

thank you for sharing your solution!

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Hi thanks for the detailed report, I fixed the issue it be available in the next non-hotfix release.

As a workaround you can do

dId = c4d.DescID(c4d.ID_LAYER_LINK) allObjects[i][dId] = myLayer

Cheers,
Maxime.

Hey @robpayne that is great to hear, thank you for informing us!

Marvelous @Dunhou, thanks yet again!!

Here's the final script in case someone else has use for it:

from typing import Optional import c4d doc: c4d.documents.BaseDocument # The active document op: Optional[c4d.BaseObject] # The active object, None if unselected def main(): # Retrieves BaseTime of frame 5, 20 start = 0 end = 1 if c4d.CheckIsRunning(c4d.CHECKISRUNNING_ANIMATIONRUNNING) == True: c4d.CallCommand(12412) # Play Forwards # Loops through the frames for frame in range(start, end + 1): # Changes the time of the document doc.SetTime(c4d.BaseTime(frame, doc.GetFps())) # Updates timeline c4d.GeSyncMessage(c4d.EVMSG_TIMECHANGED) # Redraws the viewport and regenerate the cache object c4d.DrawViews(c4d.DRAWFLAGS_ONLY_ACTIVE_VIEW | c4d.DRAWFLAGS_NO_THREAD | c4d.DRAWFLAGS_STATICBREAK) # Pushes an update event to Cinema 4D c4d.EventAdd(c4d.EVENT_ANIMATE) if __name__ == '__main__': main()

Hi Ilia,

I'm on Mac 13.3 and C4D 2024.0.0 at the moment.

Dan

Hi @BretBays,

Sorry for the delayed answer.

Depending on how you picture the final look of your gui and how complex the behavior you'd like to have there, the means can be different.

There's no easy way to achieve the same look as with "Freeze Transform" inside GeDialog. The suggested way would be to implement the logic manually and hide/show content by the button or a bitmap button. Such approach is demonstrated in the following examples:

gedialog_menu_hide_content_r15.py that's pointed out by @Dunhou shows how to hide/show content customgui_quicktab_r19.py shows how to organize switch between your data using tab buttons

If you really want to have the exact same look as foldable groups in the Description context, you could probably try drawing your layout with the DescriptionCustomGui that is capable of that (c++ example). However, I personally don't think this approach is worth the effort.

Cheers,
Ilia