Re: File sanity checker...

[François Painchaud <francois.painchaud(at)sympatico.ca>]

You can also "augment" the original scntoc file in an OnEndSceneSave 
event. Straightforward to implement in Python with xml.dom.minidom (parse,
createElement, setAttribute, writexml, etc.). For reference, see 
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.dom.minidom.html and 
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonxml/index.html.

I used this technique very successfully in a plug-in that adds custom 
XML nodes pertaining to some custom properties, information used later 
by our proprietary render farm software.

François

-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	Re: File sanity checker...
Date: 	Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:16:53 +0200
De: 	guillaume laforge <guillaume.laforge.3d(at)gmail.com>
Pour: 	XSI(at)Softimage.COM


You can create your own "custom scntoc" for your needs.

The way to go is to fired an event when the user save a scene. This way 
you can run the script/plugin you want to write some scene information 
(in xml format for example).

On 10/10/06, *Raffaele Scaduto-Medola* <raffaele(at)inch.com 
<mailto:raffaele(at)inch.com>> wrote:

   Another interesting problem is presenting itself to our production.
   I am finding out that it would be very useful to check basic scene .scn
   information inside XSI which is not automatically put/in the .scntoc
   file.
   The problem is to open XSI, and load a large referenced scene is too
   cumbersom for checking, so I was wondering if

   1- there is any command line tool that can give me more (& quickly )
   text
   information about a file that is not included in the .scntoc file?

   2- if there is a way I can add custom/additional information inside the
   .scntoc file that would be carried with the file (IE when I save/publish
   my scenes?

   I am basically looking for a way to carry more information in the
   .scntoc/xml file so I can quickly parse it instead of having to open a
   binary file in XSI.

   If anyone has develloped any technique for handling this problem, I
   would
   be very curious to hear about it. <http://www.turbolinea.com>


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