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Hi @orestiskon,

From what I learnt recently, if you have more than one data to store, you can create a sub container of the base container identified by the pluginID.

I can't remember where I read that... just be careful I'm not an advanced C4D developer

In a class for a BaseTag I use this like that,

        self.bcDATAS = c4d.BaseContainer()
        self.bcDATAS[ myData ] = "A string for example"
        # Be sure to use a unique ID obtained at https://developers.maxon.net/forum/pid
        myPLUGIN_ID = 0123456789 

        # Get the Document Settings BaseContainer
        self.bcDoc = doc.GetDocumentData( c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT )
        self.bcDoc[ myPLUGIN_ID ] = self.bcDATAS # Store plugin container inside the document container

        # Save the updated Document BC
        op.SetData( self.bcDoc )
        
        # To retrieve a data
        print ( op.GetData()[ myPLUGIN_ID ][ myData ] )

Cheers,

Christophe

@orestiskon, self is used because the example is an extract of a class. In my case, those variables are defined in the def __init__ (self):, and belongs to the class object. They are not globals. Have a look there, https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html you will understand it with a much better explanation than mine.

If you plan to do not use that inside a class, you can get rid of self of course. Just be careful of doc and op used here below as they are arguments of def Execute(self, tag, doc, op, bt, priority, flags): used in my BaseTag plugin.

Knowing this, I assume you can easily transpose this to your purpose as the following example won't work as it is

bcDATAS = c4d.BaseContainer()
bcDATAS[ myData ] = "A string for example"
# Be sure to use a unique ID obtained at https://developers.maxon.net/forum/pid
myPLUGIN_ID = 0123456789 

# Get the Document Settings BaseContainer
bcDoc = doc.GetDocumentData( c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT )
bcDoc[ myPLUGIN_ID ] = bcDATAS # Store plugin container inside the document container

# Save the updated Document BC
op.SetData( bcDoc )
        
# To retrieve a data
print ( op.GetData()[ myPLUGIN_ID ][ myData ] )

I noticed by having a look on other .res files that there is a STATICTEXT { JOINEND; } that exists and can be applied on LAYERGROUP as well as STATICTEXT { NEWLINE; } but I didn't got the use of the last one as that does not create the "\r" or "\r\n" it should.

Didn't found any informations in the SDK (C++ nor Python) about JOINEND and JOINENDSCALE... those tags looks like to be undocumented.