Re: Connecting a specific custom property to a SCOP group

Date : Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:23:00 +0100 (BST)
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Andy Nicholas" <andy(at)andynicholas.com>
Subject : Re: Connecting a specific custom property to a SCOP group
Brill. Thanks for your help guys :-)


> Hi Andy,
>
> Testing my memory here, but I think the fix to this is to make to your
> two in ports seperate groups. (i.e. one group per port).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
> On 7/31/06, Andy Nicholas <andy(at)andynicholas.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm having a major problem trying to connect a specific custom property
>> to
>> a scripted operator. My ports look like this:
>>
>> <obj>.kine.global   (IN)
>> <obj>.MyProperty    (IN)
>> <obj>.kine.global   (OUT)
>>
>> When I first create the operator, it's not a problem to specify the
>> exact
>> connections because I use the ApplyOperator command like this:
>>
>> ApplyOperator("KineOperator",
>>               "[sphere.kine.global,sphere.MyProperty,sphere.kine.global]");
>>
>> This allows me to specify the custom property "MyProperty" to be used.
>> If
>> I don't do that, I have the problem where it will just connect to the
>> first CustomProperty that exists underneath the object, rather than the
>> one I want it to connect to.
>>
>> My issue, is that I want to be able to connect multiple objects to this
>> operator. So I want to be able to do this:
>>
>> operator.ConnectToGroup(0, box_obj);
>>
>> to connect other objects to the same operator after I've created it.
>>
>> The problem with this, is that I'm not able to specify the exact
>> connection set. As a result, the first custom property underneath the
>> object gets connected instead of the one I want.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way round this problem?
>>
>> BTW, my property is a self installed custom property. Is it possible to
>> create a custom property with an SPDL? If I could, then I'd be able to
>> specify the custom property's GUID in the port definition and all would
>> be
>> fine.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
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