Haha, I had the same thought about trying a first and last, with no luck.

I'll try to email support, but I never did before, we'll see how it goes.
Cheers
Erwan
On Jan 18, 2015 9:28 PM, "Ean Carr" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Heh, that's a bit frustrating. Never noticed that one before. I tried
> creating "first" and "last" int knobs on a NoOp along with the File_Knob,
> thinking it might populate those "magic" knobs like on a Read, but it
> doesn't. The frame range seems lost when the panel closes. There seems to
> be no other way to access that frame range, no obvious method on the
> File_Knob. If I were you, I'd mail support with a feature request. In the
> meantime, your workaround is the way to go. -E
>
> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 9:18:40 AM Erwan Leroy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks.
>>
>> I'm struggling with something that I thought was gonna be super easy.
>>
>> When I add a File_knob in a panel, click the little folder icon, it opens
>> the file browser just fine. I select a sequence, the field at the bottom
>> shows "/path/to/sequence/file_####.ext 0-100".
>> When I click open, what gets returned into the knob is
>> "/path/to/sequence/file_####.ext"
>> I'd like to be able to obtain the frame range as well, but I can't seem
>> to access the value.
>>
>> I found a work around by using a String_Knob coupled with a button
>> running fileSequence = nuke.getClipName('Select File Sequence'), which does
>> return the whole string.
>> Then I cut it up in pieces and use what I want, but just to be clean I'd
>> like to use the File_Knob, I'm sure there is a way, read nodes parse the
>> frame range from that all the time.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Erwan
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