Best Regards,
Florian

So if you want to have a parameter in your object that stores a float value, just use a REAL parameter. You can display that parameter in the UI using a custom GUI element. See for example customgui_string.cpp.

best wishes,
Sebastian

I edited the customdata_customgui example to fit my needs. (mainly only the drawing).
So I guess I would have to change my customdata to a REAL customgui?

STRING ID_RESULT_TEXT  { CUSTOMGUI MULTISTRING; ANIM OFF; }

The first symbol is the data type (STRING), the second the parameter ID, The custom GUI can be found after the CUSTOMGUI keyword.

So in your case, MY_CUSTOMGUI is NOT a custom GUI. It is a custom data type. Is that correct?

[...]
MY_CUSTOMGUI CUSTOMGUIPARAM { }
[...]

that is what I use.

Best Regards,
Florian

So if we take the C++ example of the String Custom GUI.
You can use it in Python like bellow:

import c4d

ID_CUSTOM_GUI = 1001
ID_BUTTON_DO = 1002

class myCustomGuiDlg(c4d.gui.GeDialog):
    
    def CreateLayout(self):
        
        self._customGui = self.AddCustomGui(ID_CUSTOM_GUI, 1034655, 'my value', c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT, 50, 10)
        self.AddButton(ID_BUTTON_DO,c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT,name = 'Get Data')
        return True
    
    def InitValues(self):
        self._customGui.SetData("Some custom text")
        return True
    
    
    def Command(self, id, msg):
        if id == ID_BUTTON_DO:
            print self._customGui.GetData()
            
        return True
    

if __name__=='__main__':
    dlg = myCustomGuiDlg()
    dlg.Open(c4d.DLG_TYPE_ASYNC)

Cheers,
Maxime.