RE: arguments for a self Installed Plugin function

["Stephen Blair" <stephen_blair(at)Softimage.COM>]

I think this may be a safe array / JScript array problem.

When you use siArgumentInput, you'll get a safe array in the Execute callback.

Maybe you want to add your arg like this

oArgs.Add( "in_array", siArgumentInput, 0, siDispatch ); // JScript array

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Greg Smith
Sent: Thu 01 December 2005 3:38 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: arguments for a self Installed Plugin function

I was curious if anyone can help me with this problem. I am having trouble trying to pass in an array of objects into a self installed plugin function. To be more specific, I have a function that uses the file system object to return an array of folder objects. This function works fine, however when I try to use that array as an imput argument for another function, everything gets fubarred.  As a test I run a test using typeof() function to see what is stored in the first index of the array before and after the array is passed into the problematic function. Prior to being passed into the function the typeof() returns "object" after being passed in the function the typeof() returns "undefined". So I have narrowed down that the problem is when the array is passed in as an argument.  Interestingly enough if thes are not run as a self installed plugin but rather part of the script I am using the function in, it works perfectly fine. I just want the modularity of having several script files rather than one monolithic script.

 

So here is a cut down version of the problematic function(s) in my self installed plugin script file.

 

//INIT
function myFunction_Init( in_ctxt )
{

    var cmd = in_ctxt.Source
    var noValue

 

    cmd.ReturnValue = true;
    cmd.Arguments.Add(  "in_array" , siArgumentInput );
}

 

//EXECUTE
function myFunction_Execute(in_array)

{
    LogMessage(typeof(in_array[0]));
}

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Greg Smith

Stan Winston Studio