how to limit the type of files we can import?
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hello,
I'm new here. I'm trying to create an import button to import only tiff files. but it still shows all types of files when the file browser gets opened. any help? Is there a thing to import multiple files?
c4d.storage.LoadDialog(c4d.FILESELECTTYPE_IMAGES, "Select Images", c4d.FILESELECT_LOAD, force_suffix=["tiff"]) -
Hello @sydney_ko!
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About your First Question
The documentation for the c4d.storage.LoadDialog() function explicitly tells that the force_suffix argument is not used, hence providing any value to it doesn't make any effect on the behviour of your selection dialog. The reason why it is still there is due to c4d.storage.LoadDialog() and c4d.storage.SaveDialog() both being based on the same FileSelect() function, that uses "force_suffix" argument only in FILESELECT::SAVE mode.
If you were on C++ plugin development side, you could easily make use of the FileSelectMultiple() function, which allows you to control files extension filters via "filterStrings" argument. However, this function is not exposed to our Python SDK, so the only way for you to make use of it is by switching to C++ development.
Cheers,
Ilia -
@i_mazlov Thanks for your response! I learnt a lot!
