Read-only strings in descriptions

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On 06/09/2010 at 09:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   11.5
Platform:   Windows ;
Language(s) :     C++ ;

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I'm not sure if this is possible, but here's what I want to do. I have a description resource (not a dialog) in which I'd like to display what could be quite a long string of text. I can do this in a MULTISTRING element, but then the user can edit it, which I don't want - I just want it readable. I can disable it, but then it's all greyed out, which doesn't look good. I then tried in GetDDescription() setting DESC_EDITABLE to false, but it doesn't seem to make any difference - the text is still editable.

I can do this in a dialog with a GeUserArea, but those aren't possible in descriptions. Does anyone have any suggestions about how this could be done? Are there any custom GUIs which I'm missing which could be included in a description?

Thanks,

Steve

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On 06/09/2010 at 12:15, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I think we fixed a couple things for R12 (take a look e.g. in the document settings at the edit field under "Input Color Profile") - the text can only be selected, but not modified anymore

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On 07/09/2010 at 01:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks, I'll take a look. Thing is, I want to support versions from R10 onwards, so that isn't going to work in earlier versions. But I appreciate the response, thank you.

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On 07/09/2010 at 05:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:

As Philip pointed out some things have changed with R12 in this regard.

For instance there is an READONLY flags for multiline string descriptions.

Example:

STRING DOCUMENT_COLORINFO { PARENTCOLLAPSE DOCUMENT_COLORPROFILE; ANIM OFF; CUSTOMGUI MULTISTRING; READONLY; }

As for pre R12 version I am afraid you have to write your own multiline custom GUI.

cheers,
Matthias

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On 07/09/2010 at 05:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you, that will be very useful for R12 up. For other versions I can find a workaround.

One thing, I can't find that READONLY flag documented in the SDK, and is the PARENTCOLLAPSE flag new as well? I can't find that one either. And while on the subject, one small point - opening the R12 SDK docs in a browser, you get the page title of Cinema 4D R11 SDK - confusing if you have more than one set of docs open at the same time for comparison! (I'm not complaining, I know these are preliminary docs - just pointing out a correction.)

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On 07/09/2010 at 06:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:

These additional flags are not documented yet. I will try to gather a list of new description flags. Also thanks for pointing out the wrong title of the docu but it has been reported already Anyways don't hesitate to report these kind of errors.

cheers,
Matthias