...All right - going on the theory that there is no way to get the list of all 
the views *before* my registered panel is restored - I have made a workaround. 
My panel actually already had a “Clear Filters” button that, amongst other 
things, gets a new list of filtered view names when it’s pressed. So,... I put 
a default string message in my type-in knobs that says, 'PRESS THE “Clear 
Filters” BUTTON TO INITIALIZE.’  Hahaha!  So, it’s kludgey.  ;^)   Anyway, my 
panel is restoring properly - and I just have to tell the user to hit a button 
to get started. No big deal - just a little ugly… But, it works.

Thanks for the help! And, if someone does think of a way to get the list of all 
of the views before the panel is restored, so I can populate the pulldowns, 
please let me know!  8^)

Thanks,
Rich


On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am now successfully restoring the panel with the script, but I only get the 
> hero view in my pulldown menu - even though I am using nuke.views() to 
> initialize the pulldown. If I close the panel and reopen it, I get all of the 
> listed views. Any way to find those views when restoring the panel on the 
> script loading? Or, is it just an order of operation problem that I won’t be 
> able to workaround??
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
> 
> On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Viewers don’t remember what view they were set to when the script is saved; 
>>> they will always open to the script’s hero view, so you can just check 
>>> nuke.root()['hero_view'].value() for your initial value.
>> 
>> Hmm… I see.   Thinking about some other approaches…   I’m trying to populate 
>> some pulldowns with the list of views, but when the panel and knobs get 
>> created - as the script loads - the views aren’t available! Hmm… maybe I 
>> just won’t be able to register this panel. Maybe it will always have to be 
>> created *after* the script is opened…??  (8^\
>> 
>> Rich
>> 
>>>  
>>> -Nathan
>>> 
>>>  
>>> From: Richard Bobo
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:24 AM
>>> To: Nuke Python discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-python] Registered PythonPanel not appearing when knobs 
>>> areassigned initial values...
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Ivan Busquets <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Rich,
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at the code above, my guess is that an active Viewer Window can't 
>>>> be resolved by the time your panel is trying to open.
>>>> 
>>>> "self.current_view = nuke.activeViewer().view()"
>>>> 
>>>> Will error out if nuke.activeViewer() is None, and therefore the rest of 
>>>> your panel's initialization will never be executed.
>>>  
>>> Ivan — Thanks for responding. That’s kind of what I figured, too.
>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> You might want to wrap that around to handle cases where activeViewer 
>>>> resolves to None, or get the information you need from somewhere else.
>>>  
>>> I’m going see if I can figure out a later point in my script to get the 
>>> current view — hopefully, after it’s available — and set the knob value, if 
>>> that’s even possible…
>>>  
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rich
>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I need to amend my email and correct some erroneous information…
>>>> 
>>>> —— First of all, setting the knob value to  a string, like ‘foobar’, 
>>>> *does* work!
>>>> ...Not sure what I was doing that made the test not work before, but it 
>>>> does now….  ~(8^P
>>>> 
>>>> —— Secondly, what does *not* work is setting the knob value to the result 
>>>> of a function. What I am actually trying to do is set the knob’s initial 
>>>> value to nuke.activeViewer().view(). The result is a string, but when 
>>>> recalling the Nuke script with a registered panel - the panel does not 
>>>> show. It does not matter if I set the value beforehand, either. I.e., if I 
>>>> do something like this:
>>>> 
>>>> self.current_view = nuke.activeViewer().view()
>>>> …then…
>>>> self.partStartsWith_knob.setValue(self.current_view)
>>>> 
>>>> —— That will work fine when initially creating the tabbed panel - but 
>>>> fails to show anything when the script is saved and reloaded.
>>>> 
>>>> —— So, here’s a better test that shows the problem:
>>>> 
>>>> import nuke
>>>> import nukescripts
>>>> class testpanel( nukescripts.PythonPanel ):
>>>>     def __init__(self):
>>>> # Get the view name and assign it...
>>>> self.current_view = nuke.activeViewer().view()
>>>>         nukescripts.PythonPanel.__init__(self, 'View Selector', 
>>>> 'com.richbobo.testpanel')
>>>>         self.partStartsWith_knob = nuke.String_Knob('startswith', 'View 
>>>> Name - Starts With :')        
>>>>         self.addKnob(self.partStartsWith_knob)
>>>> # Set the initial view name value to the knob...
>>>>         self.partStartsWith_knob.setValue(self.current_view)
>>>> 
>>>> —— Sorry for the confusion!
>>>>  
>>>> Rich
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> OK, here's an interesting problem... Well, it's "interesting" in the 
>>>>> sense that I can't figure out how to solve it!!  (8^\
>>>>>  
>>>>> ---- When I add a custom PythonPanel to the Pane menu, create it as a 
>>>>> tab, save the Nuke script and recall it - the panel does not appear!
>>>>>  
>>>>> ---- The thing that is causing it to *not* appear is assigning an initial 
>>>>> value to the knob. If I don't assign an initial value, the panel appears 
>>>>> in the tab, as expected. This happens with more than one type of knob, by 
>>>>> the way. It seems to be a general problem...
>>>>>  
>>>>> ---- For debugging purposes, I am making a simple PythonPanel and adding 
>>>>> a String_Knob to it. If I comment out the last .setValue line, the tabbed 
>>>>> panel saves and restores with the Nuke script without a problem. If I 
>>>>> assign a default value, it doesn't.
>>>>>  
>>>>> ---- Here's the test class:
>>>>> import nuke
>>>>> import nukescripts
>>>>> class testpanel( nukescripts.PythonPanel ):
>>>>>     def __init__(self):
>>>>>         nukescripts.PythonPanel.__init__(self, 'View Selector', 
>>>>> 'com.richbobo.testpanel')
>>>>>         self.partStartsWith_knob = nuke.String_Knob('startswith', 'View 
>>>>> Name - Starts With :')       
>>>>>         self.addKnob(self.partStartsWith_knob)
>>>>>         self.partStartsWith_knob.setValue('foobar')
>>>>>  
>>>>> ---- Here's what I have in my menu.py:
>>>>> import test_panel
>>>>> def addtestpanel():
>>>>>     global testpanel
>>>>>     testpanel = test_panel.testpanel()
>>>>>     testpanel.addToPane()
>>>>>     return testpanel
>>>>> nuke.menu('Pane').addCommand( 'testpanel', addtestpanel )
>>>>> nukescripts.registerPanel( 'com.richbobo.testpanel', addtestpanel )
>>>>>  
>>>>> --- Note that there are no errors reported when the panel does not appear.
>>>>>  
>>>>> It seems that assigning initial values to the knobs of a registered 
>>>>> panels somehow interrupts the mechanism that causes the panel to show. 
>>>>> How do I make sure to insert initial values in the knobs - without 
>>>>> causing the registered PythonPanel to not show?!?
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>>> Rich
>>>>>  
>>>>> Rich Bobo 
>>>>> Senior VFX Compositor
>>>>> Email:  [email protected]                  
>>>>> Mobile:  248.840.2665
>>>>> Web:  http://richbobo.com
>>>> 
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