Re: [scripting] The Models property in Python...

["Aloys Baillet" <aloys.baillet(at)gmail.com>]

Hello,

Just resurrecting this thread...
I just found a way of calling properties with arguments in Python that works well. Shame I didn't see that before!

def getCOMPropWithArgs(obj, propName, *args):
    iid = obj._oleobj_.GetIDsOfNames(propName)
    return obj._oleobj_.Invoke(iid, 0, 2, 1, *args)
    
#Usage:
from win32com.client import constants as c

branchSelected = getCOMPropWithArgs(Application.ActiveSceneRoot, 'Selected', c.siBranch)
print 'Branch?: %s'%branchSelected

models = getCOMPropWithArgs(Application.ActiveSceneRoot, 'Models', False)
if models.Count > 0:
    print [m.Name for m in models]


Hope this might help someone...

Aloys

On 8/11/06, Aloys Baillet <aloys.baillet@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Marc-AndrÃ, but it doens't seem to work! I'm using XSI 5.11, and here's what I get if I try to call the GetModel method:

#ERROR : Traceback (most recent call last):
#  File "<Script Block >", line 81, in SBHelpersEvents_OnBeginFileImport_OnEvent
#    subModels = parent.GetModels(False)
#  File "c:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 489, in __getattr__
#    raise AttributeError, "%s.%s" % (self._username_, attr)
#AttributeError: <unknown>.GetModels

Any idea why I don't have this method exposed?
I tried to activate the dynamic dispatch with Patrick Boucher's technique( http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=24 ), but no change!

Cheers,

Aloys

On 8/10/06, Marc-Andrà Belzile <mbelzile@softimage.com > wrote:

Try with GetModels. It is actually generated by Python from the Models property, but must be used as a method to correctly pass the arguments.

 

-mab

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi@Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi@Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Aloys Baillet
Sent: August 10, 2006 2:03 AM
To: xsi@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: [scripting] The Models property in Python...

Because Python is great:
    models = filter(lambda x: x.Parent.Name == myX3D.Name, myX3D.Models)
Because COM is less great:
   anyone with a faster idea is still welcome!

Aloys

On 8/10/06, Aloys Baillet <aloys.baillet@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello there,

A really basic question... maybe?

I need to get the list of models under any given X3DObject, but NOT the recursive list: just the direct children.

The X3DObject.Models property accepts a Recursive argument (thanks Bill for this great feature: properties with arguments...).

In JScript, it's quite easy:
var models = myX3D.Models(false)
will return the good list.

Unfortunately in Python,
models = myX3D.Models(False)
returns the first item of the recursive list (False being evaluated as 0, and the recursive list being always returned)!

Any great, simple and clean idea anyone?

Cheers,

Aloys

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