Control Cinema through external programm

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On 02/06/2012 at 07:27, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hey guys,

i'm quite new to the topic of c4d-programming and i'm trying to figure out if it is possible to write a plugin/ script that lets me control cinema form a different python and and let these communicate through sockets. So when Cinema starts it should ask the other process why to do. I already saw that its possible to launch code on startup using the startupscript, but cinema doesn't completely start until the script is finished. So I think my code has to be executed as a plugin. Am I right? Is it possible to start a plugin on c4d-startup?? As i said I'm quite new to the topic and this thing is quite trivial. I appreciate your help.

regards
Hanso

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On 02/06/2012 at 07:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:

just to clarify. i think what i want to ask is:
Is it possible to start a plugin on on c4d-startup and let it do stuff in the background??

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On 02/06/2012 at 08:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ok just got it to work using c4d.threading.C4DThread. Is this the way to go here??

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On 02/06/2012 at 11:14, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi JohnnyJumper,

you can either use c4d.threading.C4DThread or use the built-in threading module. Actually, I don't know if there are advantages on using the C4DThread.

Here's what you could do for example:

import socket  
import threading  
  
class MyThread(threading.Thread) :  
  
  def run(self) :  
      client = socket.socket()  
      client.connect(('localhost', 8080))  
  
      # make stuff with the connection  
      pass  
  
def main() :  
  thread = MyThread()  
  thread.start()  
  
if __name__ == "__main__":  
  main()

Note that you can not make GUI operations in Cinema 4D from another thread.

Cheers,
Nik

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On 04/06/2012 at 01:11, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you Nik,

threading is better than C4DThread because it works with R12 too. Thanks for the note on Gui operations.
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regards
Hanso