How to reference to a custom property

[jacobo]

Hi;

I have a custom property created through a self installing plugin. I want to be able to point to it as an object so as to be able to find other objects relative to the model it's under. I couldn't do it using the ocustomProperty declared under the define(in_ctxt) function. How can I point to it as an object?

Thank you and sorry for the simple question

Cheers;

AJ

[EricTRocks]

Well when you call the "AddProperty" method it should return a pointer to the newly created custom property. From there you can find the Parent3dObject through scripting.

If you're trying to find that property on a random object you'll have to be a bit creative and use some of the other scripting methods like Application.FindObjects2() to find all custom properties then filter that collection by iterating and checking type or name.

Need some more context in what you're looking to do to be more helpful I think.

[jacobo]

Hi Eric;

Thanx a lot for your reply. The ppg is to be created only once under the root of a model, which has controls for a rig that's under the same model. I want to be able to first point to this very ppg so as to be able to point to its parenting Model and then dig in and find the objects and/or properties/params to be controlled relative to this Model. The reason for this is that there may be more than one of this Character model present in the scene and I want to avoid confusions and/or conflicts. I tried declaring the ppg inside the onInit function, but I just couldn't get the assigned variable to be recognized throughout the rest of the script. It would be great if I could say at the beginning, "This is the pgg and the parenting Model" and filter out and/or search inside that model for the objects whose specific properties are to be altered through the use of this PPG.

Any help would be wildly appreciated.

Cheers;

AJ

[EricTRocks]

hmm. not sure that is going to work but you could try using:

property = PPG.Inspected(0)
parent = property.Parent3DObject

Inside the plugin.

[jacobo]

Thanx Eric for taking the time to help me out, I appreciate it a lot. I'm enclosing the script so that you could have a clearer idea. onInit function seemed the most ideal place to make the declaration, yet I couldn't get the defined objects to be recognized in the following parts like function Aa() that executes a snippet when the assigned button is pressed through the function AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_IconSel_OnChanged(). Is there any way to point to this ppg through its code so that its variable is recognized in every function that follows?

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function XSILoadPlugin( in_reg )
	in_reg.Author = "AJ"
	in_reg.Name = "AJ_ARAYUZ_DENEPlugin"
	in_reg.Major = 1
	in_reg.Minor = 1
	in_reg.RegisterProperty "AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE"
	in_reg.RegisterCommand "AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE", "StartAJ_ARAYUZ_DENE"
	XSILoadPlugin = true
end function


function AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_Define( ctxt )
	dim oCustomProperty
	set oCustomProperty = ctxt.Source
	oCustomProperty.AddParameter2 "IconSel", siInt4, -1,-1, 9	,-1, 9,0
	oCustomProperty.AddParameter2 "SyNop",siString,"",,,,,0,siPersistable
	oCustomProperty.AddParameter2 "StaticBitmapControl",siString
	oCustomProperty.SyNop.value = "G:\AJ_XSI_WGROUP\Application\synoptic\embeddedsynoptic.htm"
	AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_Define = true
	
end function


function AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_DefineLayout( ctxt )
	dim oLayout,iList,oItem
	set oLayout = ctxt.Source
	oLayout.Clear
	iconpath = "C:\Users\JACOBO\Desktop\EYE"
	aBitmaplist=array( _
					iconpath + "\RIGHT_EYE_NORMAL.bmp"	,  0 , _
					iconpath + "\RIGHT_EYE_SHOCKED.bmp"		, 1)
					
oLayout.AddTab "EXAMPLE"

	oLayout.AddGroup "BITMAP"
		Set oItem = oLayout.AddItem( "StaticBitmapControl", "Static Bitmap", siControlBitmap )
		oItem.SetAttribute siUIFilePath, ActiveProject2.Path + "\Pictures\INTERFACE\MAKEITS.bmp"
		oItem.setattribute siUINoLabel,true
	oLayout.EndGroup
 
	oLayout.AddGroup "Tools"
		oLayout.AddRow
			set iList=oLayout.AddEnumControl ("IconSel", aBitmaplist,  , siControlIconList)
			iList.SetAttribute "Nolabel", true
			iList.SetAttribute "UseSelIcon", 1
		oLayout.EndRow
	oLayout.EndGroup
	
	oLayout.AddGroup "SYNOPTIC"
		set oItem = oLayout.AddItem("SyNop", "", siControlSynoptic)
		oItem.setattribute siUINoLabel,true
	oLayout.EndGroup
	
oLayout.AddTab "EXAMPLE"

	oLayout.AddGroup "BITMAP"
		Set oItem = oLayout.AddItem( "StaticBitmapControl", "Static Bitmap", siControlBitmap )
		oItem.SetAttribute siUIFilePath, ActiveProject2.Path + "\Pictures\INTERFACE\MAKEITS.bmp"
		oItem.setattribute siUINoLabel,true
	oLayout.EndGroup

AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_DefineLayout = true

end function


function AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_OnInit( )
	Application.LogMessage "OnInit called"
end function

function AJ_ARAYUZ_DENE_IconSel_OnChanged()
		pIconSel=PPG.IconSel.Value
		select case pIconSel
		case 0
			Aa()		
		case 1
			Ba()
		case else
			fToolbar(pIconSel)
		end select
end function

function Aa()

end function


function Ba()

end function

[EricTRocks]

Well not sure how it could be done in vb script. I played a little but each time I ran a SelectObj command it selected the control and crashed.

In the Aa() function I did this:

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function Aa()
    set ctrl=PPG.Inspected(0).Model.FindChild("eye_L_ctrl")
    LogMessage ctrl.FullName
    SelectObj ctrl
end function

just trying to select a control in the model named "eye_L_ctrl" but again once it selects the object it crashes not sure why.

[jacobo]

Eric, I thank you for your patience and help. I'll investigate further and maybe dissect a few more scripts to see how others handled the situation.

Cheers and take care.

AJ