Hi Chris,
Not a dumb question at all... I'm not sure this will be helpful, but if I
understand your question, have you thought of using a callback? i.e. when the
node is created, if input 1 is connected, do this -- if input 2 is also
connected, do that... otherwise do something else. There are a wide range of
callbacks you can choose from -- one will take action only when the node is
created, another will take action when the user does "specified action", etc.
You can add your callback to your menu.py file (since it's GUI related) --
first you define the function your callback will execute, then you define the
callback it... here's a pseudo example:
def mySweetFunction():
n=nuke.thisNode()
if n.Class()=="Read":
print "You have just created a new Read node named %s" %n.name()
### this function will print the Read nodes name every time a new read node is
created -- but only if you put it into action by using it in a callback
nuke.addOnCreate(mySweetFunction, nodeClass = "Read")
### Notice the lack of parentheses after my function "mySweetFunction" when I
pass the function to call in the callback -- you are telling the callback which
function to call, rather than calling it at that time... this something that
can confuse people.
With regard to your question about defining variables for a node upon creation
-- you could set knobs upon creation by sniffing for things but a callback is
easier...
Is there a reason you prefer nuke.createNode("Node") as opposed to
nuke.nodes.Node(name="hello",label="world")?
The second is much easier to define values inline, however both can have knob
values defined after the node creation quite easily, like so:
myNode=nuke.createNode("NoOp")
myNode['name'].setValue("Hello") # I find this shorthand method preferable to
the longhand equivalent: myNode.knob('name').setValue('hello')
Again, if I understand your question, I would use a callback and then tweak the
knob values as I have described above...
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Jep_______________________________________________
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