Re: Diving into python, some questions...

[Nick <nick.petit(at)gmail.com>]

Aloys beat me to it... :)

On 8/24/06, Nick <nick.petit(at)gmail.com> wrote:

Pythin allows you to enumerate through lists, collections, a bit like in VB with the "for each ... in ..." which allows you to get to the individual items a lot quicker...

import xml.dom.minidom

#assign Application to a smaller variable
app = Application

#get the all the passes in the scene
oPasses = app.ActiveProject.ActiveScene

.Passes

#new XML doc
doc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()

#root element
passList = doc.createElement("PassList")
doc.appendChild(passList)

#pass elements

for oPass in oPasses:  # get each pass directly, its faster and you get to the objects you want quicker...
    passElem = doc.createElement (oPass.Name)

    passList.appendChild(passElem)
   
    #render options for each pass
    rOptElem = doc.createElement("RenderOptions")

    #rOptions = oPass.NestedObjects(3).Parameters   I'm still on 4.2 so I don't have access to "NestedObjects", so I use this instead :
    rOptions = app.EnumElements(oPass)(3).Parameters

   
    #render option's parameters and values

    for oParam in rOptions: #first syntax error
        # if rOptions.Value:  Here, you're trying to get to the value of a Collection, not an individual Parameter...
        if oParam.Value:
            parElem = doc.createElement(oParam.Name)
            rOptElem.appendChild (parElem)
            parTxt = doc.createTextNode(oParam.Value)
            parElem.appendChild(parTxt)
  ...

Hopefully that gets you on your way, I can't go on too much further as I'm missing "NestedObjects"