GeDialog Timer Always Printing to Console?

kvb

Hey Folks,
Getting some odd behavior from a GeDialog's Timer and I've been troubleshooting this all day with no success. I thought it was due to a lot of different things, including some python libraries I had been using, but when I boiled it down to the most basic example and tried testing in a c4d without those libraries installed, I still get this very odd behavior of "(null)" being printed to the console over and over again if my Timer is active.

If I uncomment the print("Timer") line it just prints "(null)Timer". The "(null)" calls always show up on the same line, unless I print from Timer(), then the print statement adds a new line break.

Issues are the same in 2023 and S26, whether I have the 3rd party python libraries installed or not. The following example is pure vanilla. No libs, just a boilerplate dialog that runs a timer and has 4 static text fields.

Thanks for your help!

import c4d
from c4d import gui

PLUGIN_ID = 1234567  # Replace with your unique plugin ID from PluginCafe

class MyDialog(gui.GeDialog):

    ID_GROUP1 = 1000
    ID_GROUP2 = 2000
    ID_STATIC_TEXT1 = 1001
    ID_STATIC_TEXT2 = 1002
    ID_STATIC_TEXT3 = 2001
    ID_STATIC_TEXT4 = 2002

    def CreateLayout(self):
        self.SetTitle("My Custom GeDialog")

        # Group 1
        if self.GroupBegin(self.ID_GROUP1, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, 2, 1, "Group 1"):
            self.AddStaticText(self.ID_STATIC_TEXT1, c4d.BFH_LEFT, name="Static Text 1")
            self.AddStaticText(self.ID_STATIC_TEXT2, c4d.BFH_LEFT, name="Static Text 2")
        self.GroupEnd()

        # Group 2
        if self.GroupBegin(self.ID_GROUP2, c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, 2, 1, "Group 2"):
            self.AddStaticText(self.ID_STATIC_TEXT3, c4d.BFH_LEFT, name="Static Text 3")
            self.AddStaticText(self.ID_STATIC_TEXT4, c4d.BFH_LEFT, name="Static Text 4")
        self.GroupEnd()

        return True
    
    def Timer(self, msg):
        print("Timer")
        return True
    
    def InitValues(self):
        self.SetTimer(100)
        print("InitValues")
        return True


class MyCommandData(c4d.plugins.CommandData):

    dialog = None

    def Execute(self, doc):
        if self.dialog is None:
            self.dialog = MyDialog()

        return self.dialog.Open(dlgtype=c4d.DLG_TYPE_ASYNC, pluginid=PLUGIN_ID, defaultw=300, defaulth=150)

    def RestoreLayout(self, sec_ref):
        if self.dialog is None:
            self.dialog = MyDialog()

        return self.dialog.Restore(pluginid=PLUGIN_ID, secret=sec_ref)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    c4d.plugins.RegisterCommandPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, "My Custom GeDialog", 0, None, "A custom GeDialog example", MyCommandData())

kvb

Well, that was a fast solution... couldn't it have emerged BEFORE I hit submit?!? Haha, the solution was easy... I was returning True on the Timer function. Took a look at the python memory viewer example and noticed they don't return a value on it. Removed the return from my Timer() function and all is working as expected.

def Timer(self, msg):
    print("Timer")

That's it:)