Creating bitmaps in descriptions

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On 04/11/2012 at 19:04, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is it possible to have bitmaps in descriptions?
I believe it is possible using a USERAREA but there is nothing documented in the SDK. The elements that the SDK talks about are:

LINK
VECTOR
REAL
LONG
BOOL
IN_EXCLUDE
DATETIME
FONT
PRIORITY
MATRIX
STRING
STATICTEXT
FILENAME
TEXTURE
BUTTON
BASETIME
DYNAMIC
SEPARATOR
SPLINE
COLOR
GRADIENT
HYPERLINK
SHADERLINK

Nothing about USERAREA

Rui Batista

Helper

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On 05/11/2012 at 00:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Use a BITMAPBUTTON custom gui. You'll need to implement Message() and respond to MSG_DESCRIPTION_GETBIMAP to load the bitmap into the button.

In C++ it would look like this:

  
// In the .res file for the object:   
     BITMAPBUTTON MY_BMBUTTON { }   
  
// In Message() :   
case MSG_DESCRIPTION_GETBITMAP:   
     DescriptionGetBitmap *dgb;   
        dgb = static_cast<DescriptionGetBitmap*>(data);   
     if(dgb->id[0].id == MY_BMBUTTON)   
     {   
          Filename bg = GeGetPluginPath() + Filename("res") + Filename("my_bmbutton.tif");   
          if(!GeFExist(bg))   
               return TRUE;   
          AutoAlloc<BaseBitmap>bm;   
          bm->Init(bg);   
          dgb->bmp = bm.Release();   
     }   
break;

Helper

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On 06/11/2012 at 18:47, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I tried it, spedler, but It didn't work

My Message method starts like this:
**
def Message(self, node, type, data) :
     print "In Message"
     if type==c4d.MSG_DESCRIPTION_GETBITMAP:
          print "MSG_DESCRIPTION_GETBITMAP"
          if data['id'][0].id==AB_PIC_HEADER:
**
And in the console I only get "In Message". It never passes the
**
if type==c4d.MSG_DESCRIPTION_GETBITMAP:
**
And, even if it passed, I don't know how to actually insert the bitmap in the button.
I'm loading the bitmap with:
**
dir, file = os.path.split(__file__)
banner = bitmaps.BaseBitmap()
banner.InitWith(os.path.join(dir, "res", "banner01.tif"))
**
But then, I don't know what to do with the bitmap.

Helper

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On 06/11/2012 at 23:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm not sure if it's possible in Python, because I haven't yet tried it, but: You can (theoretically) create a SubDialog element, and in the SubDialog, you have a BitmapButton customgui or a UserArea.

-Nik

Helper

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On 07/11/2012 at 01:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

How do I create a SubDialog or a UserArea?
I'm creating my dialolg with a .res file.

Rui Batista

Helper

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On 07/11/2012 at 04:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Rui,

You can register your button's bitmap with RegisterIcon(id, bmp) before registering the plugin. In the description resource you can then set the icon, assuming the id is 123456789:

BITMAPBUTTON MY_BMBUTTON { ICONID1 123456789; }

In the description you have to put the number value, not the identifier value - because the resource parser cannot find them.

Helper

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On 07/11/2012 at 09:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:

YES! Great... It works like a charm
Thank you Yannick.

By the way, if I want to have an area in the description that shows a bitmap that I want to change and update, what would be the method?

Helper

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On 07/11/2012 at 14:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there any way I can make the BITMAPBUTTON scale to the width of the palette?
If I add the parameter ALIGN_LEFT, it simply flushes left.
If I add the parameter SCALE_H, it centers.
If I add the parameter FIT_H, it simply flushes left.

Rui Batista