Combobox in Combobox in python

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On 24/10/2012 at 03:41, xxxxxxxx wrote:

How to define a combobox in a combobox using Python?
See for example the Physical Sky > Time and Location > City GUI.

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On 24/10/2012 at 06:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Are you talking about having a popup menu displayed when we click on the combo?
If you take a look at the description of the Physical Sky ( modules\advanced render\sky\res\description\oskyshader.res ) you can see that the City combo is defined as:

LONG SKY_POS_CITY_COMBO
{
    PARENTCOLLAPSE;
    CUSTOMGUI SKY_II_CITYLIST;
    ANIM OFF;
}

So you can see that it's made with custom gadget; unfortunately it's not possible to develop custom GUIs with the Python SDK, only in C++.

Or are talking about the collapsing of City parameter?
In its declaration you can see PARENTCOLLAPSE flag and Time Zone attribute is declared with PARENTCOLLAPSE SKY_POS_CITY_COMBO to tell CINEMA his collapse parent:

LONG SKY_POS_TIMEZONE
{
    PARENTCOLLAPSE SKY_POS_CITY_COMBO;
    CYCLE
    {
        SKY_POS_TZ_OS;
        SKY_POS_TZ_CUSTOM;
    }
}

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On 24/10/2012 at 06:54, xxxxxxxx wrote:

What I mean is that like the City comboboxx in the Physical Sky, first select the continent, that displays another combobox with all countries on that continent.
Then select a country, that displays all cities in that country.

I'm sorry, I do not understand what you mean with "collapsing of City parameter"?

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On 24/10/2012 at 07:27, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

What I mean is that like the City comboboxx in the Physical Sky, first select the continent, that displays another combobox with all countries on that continent.
Then select a country, that displays all cities in that country.

This is a dynamic popup menu calculated by the custom GUI.

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

I'm sorry, I do not understand what you mean with "collapsing of City parameter"?

I'm referring to the parameters that you can show or hide below City parameter.

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On 24/10/2012 at 12:02, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ok, clear.
Do you have an example of such a popup menu?

Sorry, I see you just told me
"unfortunately it's not possible to develop custom GUIs with the Python SDK, only in C++."

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On 25/10/2012 at 03:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

Ok, clear.
Do you have an example of such a popup menu?

Sorry, I see you just told me
"unfortunately it's not possible to develop custom GUIs with the Python SDK, only in C++."

No, I just said that we can't build custom gadgets in Python but we can of course create dynamic popup menus.
Here's an example of a recursive popup dialog:

import c4d
from c4d import gui
  
def BuildMenuRecursive(menu, level, maxlevel) :
    offset = 10*level
    menu.SetString(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+offset,   'Item '+str(offset+1))
    menu.SetString(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+offset+1, 'Item '+str(offset+2))
    
    level += 1
    if level==maxlevel:
        menu.SetString(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+offset+2, 'Item '+str(offset+3))
    else:
        submenu = c4d.BaseContainer()
        submenu.SetString(1, 'Item '+str(offset+3))
        BuildMenuRecursive(submenu, level, maxlevel)
        menu.SetContainer(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+offset+2, submenu)
    
    menu.SetString(c4d.FIRST_POPUP_ID+offset+3, 'Item '+str(offset+4))
  
# Build main menu recursively
# With a maximum of 5 menus
menu = c4d.BaseContainer()
BuildMenuRecursive(menu, 0, 5)
  
# Show popup dialog
  
result = gui.ShowPopupDialog(cd=None, bc=menu, x=300, y=300)
print result

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On 27/10/2012 at 16:11, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks, I'll give it a try.