Re: Controlling a parameter "live" via slider through scripting

[Stefan Kubicek]

The cleanest way I suppose would be to have the PPG reside on the operator directly.

Write a command to apply the op and display its PPG (points 1 and 2 in your list), then on the PPG there could be a button (calling a second command for instance) that freezes the object and performs your additional modeling operations (points 3 and 4).

That's what I'd do. You could even create menu items for your command(s) and anchor them in one of the existing menus so you can call the operation(s) from there.

Thank you for the links, I think these contain what I need.

What would be the standard way for controlling operators? I'm not trying to do anything special, really just looking for the most straightforward way to:

1) Add a bevel operator

2) Allow the user to change settings of the bevel operator

3) Freeze the object

4) Perform additional modeling operations

Step 2) is the only part where I need interactive user input. Once the user is happy and clicks OK, steps 3) and 4) must be automatically performed by the script.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com> wrote:

It is quite unusual to update operators based on another global PPG's parameter I think, though theoretically it should work if the operator uses the Property's relevant parameters as an input. 

Check out http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/sdkguide/si_om/CustomOperator.html

and in particular: http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2014/en_us/sdkguide/si_om/CustomOperator.AddInputPort.html

No, it's not Immediate Mode. After the PPG is closed, the operator values update correctly. But they don't update when changing the slider value while the PPG is open.

I will delete the custom property once the user closes the PPG, so I think it's not too important where it's stored.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com> wrote:

Could it be that you have immediate mode enabled?

Also, why do you store the parameters in a global PPG in the SceneRoot rather than on the actual operator per object?

Hi list,

My script generates a bevel operator on an object. I then want a PPG to pop up that allows the user to change certain parameters of the bevel operator. These parameters should update whenever the values in the PPG are changed. However, they only update after the PPG is closed via OK. Can someone point me in the right direction here?

Script is roughly as follows:

# Lots of stuff after which a bevel operator (op) is generated
MyPSet = A.ActiveSceneRoot.AddProperty("CustomProperty", False, "Bevel_Options")
MyLayout = MyPSet.PPGLayout
MyPSet.AddParameter3("PBevelRatio", c.siFloat, 10, 0.01, 100)
MySlider = MyLayout.AddItem("PBevelRatio", "Ratio", c.siControlNumber)

A.InspectObj(MyPSet, "", "Choose Bevel Options", c.siModal, False)

op.Parameters("ratio").Value = MyPSet.Parameters("PBevelRatio").Value

Thank you
Christian

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