Getting/Setting Custom GUI elements
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On 16/03/2011 at 22:48, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I don't know how to add or initialise CustomGui elements, so I'm very interested, too.
I'm not sure, but there's a difference in Descriprions and Dialogs, so that you may can only use the constant in "c4d.MYCONSTANT" format in descriptions, else without "c4d."
Cheers, nux
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On 17/03/2011 at 03:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Originally posted by xxxxxxxx
Follow up question:
So I've properly flushed the group, so now I'm stuck on trying to add the link slot to the group.
So I tried:
linkslot=self.AddCustomGui(9999, PLUGIN_ID, "Shot Cam Slot", c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, 0, 0)
Now, the two questions I have are:1. it does ask for a plugin id, do they mean the group's id or my actual plugin ID?
Custom GUI elements are also registered plugin elements in CINEMA 4D so if you want to create a custom GUI element you need to pass the ID of the control ( e.g: c4d.CUSTOMGUI_LINKBOX)
Originally posted by xxxxxxxx
2. It also optionally asks for a basecontainer. I'm assuming this BaseContainer is where I specify that I'm using a link slot, but I don't really understand how I do that.
The container can be used to pass parameters to the custom GUI element (e.g: LINKBOX_HIDE_ICON(Bool), LINKBOX_LAYERMODE(Bool),...)
As nux95 and ScottA already wrote, Descriptions!=GeDialog. AddCustomGui is a member of GeDialog and cannot be used to create descriptions for your tag, object, ... plugin.
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On 17/03/2011 at 08:05, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Just out of curiosity.
Is there some special reason why you need to use a LINKBOX?
In all of the dialog based examples I've seen. They use a text box to produce the same drag&drop behavior as the Description based LINK type of GUI.There's an example of this in the Coffee SDK called "GUIdemo.cof" that sounds like what you're trying to do.
It's in the general_docs_plugins/Example Files section.-ScottA
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On 17/03/2011 at 15:15, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I still don't understand how to add a custom gui element. I knoe the functionAddCustomGui(), but where do I define what kind of custom gui ?
Thanks, Niklas
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On 17/03/2011 at 15:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:
The second argument in AddCustomGui(...) is used to define the type of the customgui.
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On 17/03/2011 at 15:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:
But that's the plugin id ? Or is it just wrong documented ?
What Id's to overload here?Thanks, Niklas
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On 30/03/2011 at 07:23, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I've read through all posts but I still don't understand how to GET the object that's dragged into the link box.
I am using
msg.GetLink(ID_OF_CUSTOM_GUI_LINKBOX)in my dialog's
Command(id, msg=None)method but it always results in returning None even though I just dragged a cube object into the link.
EDIT:
Error message is:
AttributeError: 'Py2dSnapDialog' object has no attribute 'GetLink'if I use
self.GetLink(...)instead.
And what's the deal with class c4d.gui.LinkBoxGui?
So GetLink is defined both on that class and on BaseContainer?This is getting abit frustrating... it was for a plugin that I wanted to put up as open source example
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On 30/03/2011 at 08:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I would like to see a simple working example of this too.
-ScottA
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On 30/03/2011 at 09:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Even just a little confirmation if its working only for object and tag plugins or for dialog (menu command) plugins as well would be super sweet. Then I could stop putting time in it (and start looking for an alternative).
As of now I have only seen object and tag based .pype plugins with a working link field and I know Python itself rather well (if I do say so myself). I went through the complete inheritance diagram and searched every nook and cranny.
Hm, or maybe its only working with some form of drag data? In other languages and APIs it is often done like that.
EDIT: I'm giving up for now. It's just not possible at the moment. Pity, the pick whip select would have made it far superior.
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On 31/03/2011 at 22:21, xxxxxxxx wrote:
A couple things I have learned(and just made it back to here) :
The CUSTOMGUI pluginids I think can be found in the coffeesymbols.h file. You should see stuff like
CUSTOMGUI_LINKBOX=1009415,
CUSTOMGUI_INLINE=300001044,Ok, so as for a working linkbox example: I can only provide based off of what I did with ResEdit.
So like Rick said, because FindCustomGui doesn't exist, I have to manually create a linkbox.
So first I had to flush the group containing the linkbox via ``GeDialog.LayoutFlushGroup().
So I did the followiing:self.LayoutFlushGroup(10042)
self.linkslot=self.AddCustomGui(9999, c4d.CUSTOMGUI_LINKBOX, "Shot Cam Slot", c4d.BFH_SCALEFIT | c4d.BFV_SCALEFIT, 0, 0)
self.LayoutChanged(10042)``This gave me a variable that was c4d.gui.LinkBoxCustomGui. This gave me the ability to do this in my Command function:
if id==10044:
Cam=CreateShotCam()
print "Cam is: " + str(Cam)
self.linkslot.SetLink(Cam)Hope this helps.
``
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On 03/04/2011 at 14:12, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Yes, this helps a lot. Thanks.
I'm not there yet, but this is definately worth trying.