Load file/doc and then callcommand

Helper

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On 04/06/2012 at 20:26, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello helpful cafe-ers!

Long time lurker, first time caller, and I'm really sorry if this is a dumb question or posted incorrectly; just let me know if I'm doing something wrong.

Right, so, here's basically what I want to do:

import c4d
from c4d import documents

def main() :
c4d.CallCommand(100004766) ##Select All in Object Manager
c4d.CallCommand(16768) ##Connect and Delete

if __name__=='__main__':
main()

So simple! Right? And, indeed, when I execute it everything works how I expect. All of the objects in the object manager (that I've made polygon objects) are selected, connected, and deleted. Now, when I add this before the two callcommands:

path = '[insert file path here]'
c4d.documents.LoadFile(path)

It'll load the file just fine, but won't run the commands. Furthermore, by way of testing things I would make code like this, for example:

c4d.StopAllThreads()
path = 'C:\\Users\\Dr. Doom\\Desktop\\RBDTestTarget\\RBDST_25.c4d'
target = c4d.documents.BaseDocument()
c4d.documents.LoadFile(path)
target = c4d.documents.GetFirstDocument()

c4d.documents.SetActiveDocument(target)
target.InsertObject(c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Ocube)

And the cube would be inserted. If I traded the insert cube line with the callcommand()'s, however, they wouldn't work : \

What am I not understanding about loading files and callcommands that's got me hung up? I've also tried using LoadDocument with the objects flag, and a few other things, but no joy.

Thanks so much for your help!
Sorry for the post length.

Helper

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On 14/06/2012 at 14:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ok, nevermind, calling the select all in object manager command wasn't working after the script loaded the file, so I just added a walk cycle that made everything active.