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On 25/05/2011 at 07:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:

None of those worked out. But I'm getting somewhere by trial&error;
So, what I have now is:

def Message(self, tag, type, data) :

if not type: return True
if type<>18: return True
print data.values()[0]

return True

And, what I get it something like:

(1001, 8, 100000011)

So, now I just need a way to extract the first number (the 1001, in this case).
Any help?

Rui Batista

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On 25/05/2011 at 07:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I can't even determine the type of the "but" variable
If it is in the format (1001, 8, 100000011), it is not an array, right? It is not a dict either, I believe.
So, how can I extract the numbers from it?

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On 25/05/2011 at 07:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ok, it seems to be a tuple but when I print the first element with print but[0], instead of a number, I get:

<c4d.DescLevel object at 0x12902c4b0>

What I want is a number, as in... 1001
How?!?

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On 25/05/2011 at 08:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Rui, you can access this by calling but[0].id
Cheers, Sebastian

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On 25/05/2011 at 08:36, xxxxxxxx wrote:

YES!!! Thank you soooooo much

Rui Batista

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On 25/05/2011 at 08:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Did you get the button to actually work Rui?
I can get other things to work like check boxes..But not Buttons:

def Message(self, tag, type, bc) :  
  bc = tag.GetDataInstance();  
    
  if bc.GetLong(c4d.XRAY)== True:  #This works  
    print "CheckBox Enabled"  
      
  if bc.GetLong(c4d.CLICK_ME)== True:  #<-----This does not work!!  
    print "Button Pushed"

Maybe I need to get and check the state of the button?

-ScottA

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On 25/05/2011 at 09:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hm I could now look it up and i used this:

def GetMessageID(data) :  
  try:  
      return data["id"][0].id  
  except:  
      return None

cheers

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On 25/05/2011 at 14:09, xxxxxxxx wrote:

What I have now (and fully working) is something like this:

def Message(self, tag, type, data) :

if not type: return True
if type<>18: return True

but=data.values()[0]

if but[0].id==1001:
# stuff

if but[0].id==1002:
# stuff

return True

Would this be what you need, Scott?
Thank you all for the help

Rui Batista

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On 25/05/2011 at 15:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Yeah.. That helps a lot Rui.
But it doesn't seem to work with ID names

  
if but[0].id==1006:     print "button enabled" #<---Works  
  
if but[0].id==CLICK_ME: print "button enabled" #<---Does Not Work!

I'm sure there's a good reason for why the ID names don't work. But it's not the end of the world to have to use the ID numbers.

Where did you find this?:type<>18
I've never seen that before. And I'm wondering what it means.
Is that a C4D SDK thing. Or is that something that is built into the Python language?

-ScottA

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On 25/05/2011 at 15:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Actually I found out by trial&error.;
I just placed a print type inside the Message procedure. I noted the values. Then I placed a:

if type==(numbers the I noted, one by one) :
print data

And when I compared the type with 18, it printed out:

(1001, 8, 100000011)

Not a very elegant way to find out, but it did the trick. However, I don't know what the 18 means

Rui Batista

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On 25/05/2011 at 16:49, xxxxxxxx wrote:

LOL. Whatever it takes.
You don't want to know what goes through my head in order for me to use pointers in C++

The main reason I was curious about it is because your code doesn't work when I try to use it on something other than a button. Like say a checkbox for example.
I thought that maybe the "if type<>18: " meant "if the type is a button".
So I was curious if there were other numbers that would allow things like checkboxes to work in a similar manner.

I guess I'll have to try them out too. And see if anything happens.

Thanks for the information.
-ScottA

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On 25/05/2011 at 21:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Your ID is not wokring because of the missing prefix.

c4d.CLICK_ME

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On 26/05/2011 at 02:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

With this simple example of what happened to me I realized once more that the documentation for python in Cinema4D is still very sparcely arranged, lacking a lot of stuff and not very clean in general
One has to do lots of questions, lots of digging in and a whole lot of trial&error; attempts to get even the simplest results

Rui Batista

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On 26/05/2011 at 05:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I donÄt understand what you want to do with type != 18.. ?!
The GetMessageID function works fine for me. It returns the pressed GUI Element's ID, i.e. a button's id.

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On 26/05/2011 at 07:21, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

Your ID is not wokring because of the missing prefix.

c4d.CLICK_ME

Son of a @#@$#@$#@#@!!!.
I swear to God. That frakin' c4d. prefix is out to get me.
I thought I had finally squashed that prefix demon...Guess not.

Instead of going round and round. And telling us it works for you in two threads nux.
Why not take that plugin example I posted. And add the button code to it and show us?
You have my permission to do that.

-ScottA

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On 26/05/2011 at 08:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

And where is the GetMessageID information?
I typed it in the search field of the python documentation and nothing appeared

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On 26/05/2011 at 10:52, xxxxxxxx wrote:

@Rui:
The function is self-made.

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

Hm I could now look it up and i used this:
def GetMessageID(data) :  
  try:  
      return data["id"][0].id  
  except:  
      return None
cheers

@Scott:
So it's still not working for you ? (my english is too bad -.-)
I will tomorrow post you an absolutely fully working example !

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On 26/05/2011 at 12:38, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

So it's still not working for you ? (my english is too bad -.-)
I will tomorrow post you an absolutely fully working example !

Yes. Using the .c4d prefix works.
I was just yelling at myself for making such a stupid mistake. That I thought I had stopped myself from making anymore.

Please do post a working example with your button code in it.
Feel free to use the plugin I posted. Or one of your own if you prefer.
Whatever is easier.

-ScottA

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On 26/05/2011 at 14:36, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I changed my plug-in tag to use the GetMessageID(data) function and the id names.
I guess that the type check for 18 allow the procedure to terminate sooner if no button is being pressed but I also removed that check.
It is working just fine, now
Thank you all, once again.

Rui Batista

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On 27/05/2011 at 07:10, xxxxxxxx wrote:

So, here it is. A fully working example of a TagData Plugin demonstrating the use of descriptions.

http://www.file-upload.net/download-3462169/PyTag-Example.rar.html

Cheers,
Niklas