User Data - Get Button Name When Pressed

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On 11/05/2018 at 22:15, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I have been using the following function to handle user data button presses:

def message(id, data) :
    if id == c4d.MSG_DESCRIPTION_COMMAND:
        messageDataId = data["id"][0].id
        if messageDataId == c4d.ID_USERDATA:
            userDataId = data["id"][1].id
            if userDataId == 1:
                print "button 1 pressed"
            elif userDataId == 2:
                print "button 2 pressed"

Is there a way to get the button's name or short name from the message data or id?

[Helper]

On 14/05/2018 at 07:01, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

welcome to the Plugin Café forums 

I assume you are implementing this inside of a Python generator or tag, right?

In general parameters of objects (or tags, materials,...) are specified in so called Descriptions (also here). With User Data it's a bit special, as you first need to obtain the User Data containers, which store the Descriptions, via GetUserDataContainer().

One more thing you need to know: In Python Generator and Tag there's a predefined global variable op, referencing the actual object (or tag).

For example code could look like so:

def message(id, data) :
    if id == c4d.MSG_DESCRIPTION_COMMAND:
        ud = op.GetUserDataContainer()
        for did, bc in ud:
            if did == data["id"]:
                print bc[c4d.DESC_NAME] + " pressed"

[Helper]

On 14/05/2018 at 22:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Andreas,

Thanks! That worked perfectly. 

Thanks for the explanation. I made several attempts to drill down into the User Data Container but couldn't figure it out.

Thanks,
Mike