Soft Selection to BaseSelect?

Helper

On 12/02/2013 at 19:27, xxxxxxxx wrote:

In C++, I'm doing this:

Whatever ActiveSelectionCheckMethod()  
{  
  ...  
  BaseSelect*    bs =        NULL;  
  BaseTag*    vtag =        obj->GetTag(Tsoftselection);  
  if (vtag)                bs =    SoftToHardSelection(static_cast<VariableTag*>(vtag));  
  else                    bs =    obj->GetEdgeS();  
  if (!bs)  
  {  
      if (notify)            return MessageSystem::Throw(GeLoadString(KDZERR_GENERAL), "No Edges Selected!");  
      return FALSE;  
  }  
  ...  
}  
// SymMorphyTag.SoftToHardSelection  
// -    Convert a Soft Selection (Tsoftselection) into a hard selection (BaseSelect)  
//*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*  
BaseSelect*    SymMorphyTag::SoftToHardSelection(VariableTag* vtag)  
//*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*  
{  
  LONG    dataCount =            vtag->GetDataCount();  
  if (!dataCount)                return (BaseSelect* )ErrPrtV("SymMorphyTag.SoftToHardSelection.dataCount");  
  const    SReal*    data =        static_cast<const SReal*>(vtag->GetLowlevelDataAddressR());  
  if (!data)                    return (BaseSelect* )ErrPrtV("SymMorphyTag.SoftToHardSelection.data");  
  BaseSelect*        bs =        BaseSelect::Alloc();  
  if (!bs)                    return (BaseSelect* )ErrPrtV("SymMorphyTag.SoftToHardSelection.bs");  
  
  for (LONG i = 0L; i != dataCount; ++i)  
  {  
      if (data[i])    bs->Select(i);  
  }  
  
  return bs;  
}

Not even getting to the data. The first check is for the data count and it is balking.

Helper

On 12/02/2013 at 19:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

well,
are you sure, that you meet the conditions for correct soft selection data ? as i said before,
you have to select the the object, activate a soft selection tool and have a selection of
course.

python is just a wrapper for cpp, so it has to work.

and i managed to unpack the data into something meaningful, the bytesequence seems to be
single.

import c4d, struct
from c4d import gui
  
def main() :
    taglist = doc.GetActiveObject().GetTags()
    
    for tag in taglist:
        if tag.GetType() == c4d.Tsoftselection:
            data = tag.GetLowlevelDataAddressR()
            
            count = 0
            for i in xrange(0, len(data)-4,4) :
                fdata = struct.unpack('f', data[i:i+4])
                count += 1
                print fdata
            
            print count
            print data.GetDataCount()
  
if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

edit: after posting this, i realized, that you already knew this (unpacking/casting the byte
sequence). my cpp is really bad, so please excuse me but i'll leave the code fragment
if you do not mind, so that people who might search for a python example could use it.

Helper

On 12/02/2013 at 19:48, xxxxxxxx wrote:

As far as I know, the polygon object is selected, the tool is the tool with soft selection and there should be a selection (or the changes are in my head). I do need to switch to my plugin tag which might upset something but that is about it.

Helper

On 12/02/2013 at 20:08, xxxxxxxx wrote:

it could be a 'benefit' of the python wrapper that it provides GetDataCount(). maybe the
element count is in cpp not exposed when you only have access to the lowleveldata.
there are some rare examples where the python sdk provides more features than the cpp.

i am not so sure about cpp, but shouldn't be the datacount in cpp also length(bytestring)/4
like i did it in my script ?

Helper

On 13/02/2013 at 05:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Unfortunately, pointer array sizes can't be known in C++. You have to store the size separately from the array. The return from GetLowLevelData() is a void* - so you can't even get the type - you have to know what it should be. So, without dataCount, it can't be done. Hopefully Yannick will be able to clarify.

Helper

On 13/02/2013 at 08:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Robert,

From the C++ TTagType section:

Tsoftselection
Soft selection SReal.

You probably can cast the void* value to SReal* and assume the pointed data has as many
elements as points are in the object. This is just a guess, no garuantee.

Helper

On 13/02/2013 at 09:03, xxxxxxxx wrote:

If you looked at the code I posted, I'm way beyond that. What I don't have is a valid datacount. It is always 0 (though I'm still in the same edit mode and using the same tool).

Helper

On 13/02/2013 at 09:16, xxxxxxxx wrote:

i think what nikklas meant is : you can assume datacount == host_object.pointcount, due to
the nature of variable tags (to bypass the missing datacount in cpp).

Helper

On 13/02/2013 at 09:28, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Oh, I see. Maybe. Let me see if I get a valid data* and the assumption may work. I don't know. There is only one other thread on this entire forum about soft selection and it basically shows the same idea as my code.

User error. Having not used soft selection before, I see that once I select my plugin tag to do the operation, the soft selection is not shown anymore. The soft selection tag is still there but it has no data. I have to select the polygon object in the edtior to show the soft selection, maintain the tag display in the AM, and then it actually works. Something to mention in my documentation. This behavior is not happening in R10 but in R13. R10 maintains the soft selection display while I select my tag and do the operation.

Thanks!

Helper

On 13/02/2013 at 12:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

i think what nikklas meant is : you can assume datacount == host_object.pointcount, due to
the nature of variable tags (to bypass the missing datacount in cpp).

Yes, I wanted to say this. But Robert is also right, I didn't read the code he posted, sorry for that.