How to press the "Apply" button in the DescriptionToolData?

[LingZA]

How to press the "Apply" button in the DescriptionToolData?
For c++ and python.

For python:

import c4d

def main() -> None:

    c4d.CallCommand(450000263) # C++ SDK - Pick Object Tool

    tool = c4d.plugins.FindPlugin(450000263, c4d.PLUGINTYPE_TOOL)
    tool[c4d.MDATA_INTERACTIVE] = True
    c4d.EventAdd()
    if tool is not None:
        c4d.CallButton(tool, c4d.MDATA_APPLY)
        c4d.CallButton(tool, c4d.MDATA_NEWTRANSFORM)
        c4d.EventAdd()

    print("execute")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The python code can excute the settings of the tool. But the "Apply" button isn't pressed and disenabled like the manual pressing action to get the realtime update.

[ferdinand]

Hello @LingZA,

Thank you for reaching out to us. Thank you for posting your solution, much appreciated! I have provided below a variant of your example which without having the C++ Example Pick Object Tool installed.

In case someone is wondering how to find out such a thing, you would have to look into the description of a tool, e.g. the extrude tool ...

toolextrude.res:

CONTAINER xbeveltool
{
  NAME xbeveltool;

  GROUP MDATA_BEVEL_GROUP_OPTION
  {
    DEFAULT 1;
    LONG MDATA_BEVEL_MASTER_MODE
    // ...
  }
  INCLUDE ToolBase; // Includes the gadgets that are common to all description tools.
}

to find out that they all include all ToolBase which then looks like this:

toolbase.res:

CONTAINER ToolBase
{
  NAME ToolBase;

  GROUP MDATA_MAINGROUP
  {
    DEFAULT 1;
  }

  GROUP MDATA_COMMANDGROUP
  {
    DEFAULT 1;
    GROUP
    {
    //	SEPARATOR { LINE; }

      BOOL MDATA_INTERACTIVE { }
      SEPARATOR { }

      GROUP
      {
        COLUMNS 2;
        DEFAULT 1;

        BUTTON MDATA_APPLY { FIT_H; }
        BUTTON MDATA_NEWTRANSFORM	{ FIT_H; }
      }
    }
  }

  SUBCONTAINER ID_SNAPSETTINGS
  {
  }
}

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Code:

"""Actives and runs the extrude tool.
"""

import c4d

ID_EXTRUDE_TOOL: int = 1011183

def main() -> None:

    c4d.CallCommand(ID_EXTRUDE_TOOL)
    tool = c4d.plugins.FindPlugin(ID_EXTRUDE_TOOL, c4d.PLUGINTYPE_TOOL)
    tool[c4d.MDATA_INTERACTIVE] = True
    c4d.EventAdd()
    if tool is not None:
        c4d.CallButton(tool, c4d.MDATA_APPLY)
        c4d.CallButton(tool, c4d.MDATA_NEWTRANSFORM)
        c4d.EventAdd()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()