I do not think that DRAW_ALPHA_FROM_IMAGE should not work. I just picked DRAW_ALPHA_NORMAL because it is the "most default one" out of the DRAW_ALPHA flags. I will have a look later. But you can for now probably just use DRAW_ALPHA_NORMAL.

You very likely have not unpacked your resources. The resource folder found in an installation only contains a part of the application resources (we are doing this since release 2023 if I remember correctly). A good portion of the resources sits inside resource.zip for performance reasons and is unpacked on demand. You can just unpack the resource.zip into you resource folder without an performance or stability issues. [image: 1779175199591-b8e8db94-ae20-42b4-9a5d-e92ac928e89d-image.png] You as an MRD can also look at the Bugslife client, as it is probably the better example, as it uses more features of the quick tab GUI. But my answer above was targeted at a general audience who can see the resources for Bugslife but not Bugslife itself, and it therefore is not a good example for them. Just grep the resource folder as I did in my screen for files that match the path dialogs/*.res (i.e., are res files for dialogs) and contain the word QUICKTAB. Cheers, Ferdinand

Another small tip: you can simply use a single <br> for line breaks — there’s no need to use <b> or </b>. Also, just like in the script example, scripts can support localized language strings as well: """ Name-US:Example Name-CN:示例 Description-US:Example line 1.<br>Example line 2.<br>Example line 3. Description-CN:示例第 1 行。<br>示例第 2 行。<br>示例第 3 行。 """

Hey @Dunhou, Thank you for reaching out to us. We agree that this would be desirable. These methods are actually already wrapped but we hide them for now in the Python SDK. Find the reasons below. ExecuteJavascript: I just did remove the bindings of the Python API for that method in the current beta and also switched the C++ method to internal. The reason for that decision was is that we have security concerns about attackers being able to execute arbitrary JS in a web browser opened in Cinema 4D. SetWebMessageCallback: This is intended solution, i.e., the JS you want to execute must be already embedded into the HTML which is running in the HtmlView. On Windows/WebView2 it uses web messages, on MacOS/WebKit a custom solution emulating them. And SetURLCallback is then the way to get data back from the JS VM. For 2026.1 I already wrote examples for these methods, but on the last meters we discovered that something not only broke the Python bindings but the whole "execute JS" in the WebView2/WebKit bindings. My last info is that something broke there due to a project update, and that the two devs involved in it will have a look. I'll give them another bump and report here if there are any updates. Cheers, Ferdinand

Thanks for @ferdinand awesome answer! I found DescLevel and DescId always confused to me, but them do can access more than simple set item, time to dive deeper to the DescLevel part Cheers~ DunHou

Hey @Dunhou, I have edited your posting. It is fine to mention the beta forum, but we would rather not see its name written here. When you are talking about 'C++', I assume you are talking here about the Windows SDK/API, as for example GetGUIThreadInfo. I would doubt that you get very far with that here. Cinema 4D is very OS agnostic and we have our whole GUI decoupled from the OS. The little rename window in our tree view control is not an OS rename dialog. I am not even sure if this is something with an HWND handle which you could address so that you could intercept keyboard events to it, or if this is just a virtual window within our API. For this IMM thing to work, we would have to use the IME API in Cinema 4D, so that our text edit gadgets support it. I also do not quite understand what you are trying to do. The missing piece is here probably that our text edit gadget does not send its current content to the IME API (at a glance, via ImmSetCompositionStringW as shown here). And as a third party, you cannot really fix that. Because you (a) do not own the implementation and you (b) are not informed about an edit event, so you cannot just write a plugin which sends the object name to the IME API. Cheers, Ferdinand

Thanks @ferdinand for your great solution! Cheers~ DunHou

Hey @ferdinand , thanks for details. Cheers~ DunHou About forum, I can get notification about my own topic, And I clear all the cache, but nothing changed. After I tried to reset my account settings manually, then it worked as expected.

Hm, interesting, It works now, either you did something or the solution is to post a comment to trigger it. Anyway Thanks. Cheers mogh

FYI: This has been fixed and will be shipped in a future version of Cinema 4D.

It sounds worth a try, but there may be latency issues when it comes to changes, or data changes can be manually processed during the changes Perhaps for my needs, I can force the database to be use GetSceneRepository, anyway, it's worth a try. Thank you for your guidance

@ferdinand said in How to simulate a drag behavior with UA?: All it it does when the users starts to drag, according to Maxime, is inject the asset object into the document, make sure there is no object selected and then enable the place tool (and probably set the mouse cursor) This is my solution in my mind, definitely take a try after work.

I use this to Thank You Ferdinand. This is how I imagine an SDK example should look like .... a simplest version , an altered simple version and a complex touching the boundaries of the subject. I am thankful and praise your work .... ! cheers mogh

Hi @m_adam , Thanks for your reply, it worked well. But I still have some doubts about the usage of Node Path, such as how to calculate the port through NodePath instead of concatenating strings (which can easily lead to misoperation). There are few examples and answers for NodePath on the forum, and it seems that people rarely use it. Do you have any insights on this, or in other words, what usage scenarios do you think NodePath is more suitable for. Cheers~ DunHou

Wow @m_adam , thanks for that, I'll check this after work!

Hi just to let you know that the bug has been fixed, this will be available in one of the next releases. I will post on this topic once the fix is available. Cheers, Maxime.

PS: I would test this on heavy scenes with a lot of animations, to see if you get at least one data point for each frame (or whatever value you would consider acceptable).

Hey @ferdinand , oops, I have an impression of this topic and tried to recall it, but I couldn't find any keywords in my mind at the time. I must have gone crazy. And the key is the GetData(), I have no concept of file composition and did not realize that what is returned here is the data required for an image file. Thank you very much. Cheers~ DunHou

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