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Dynamic dropdown menu listing mantra nodes with a menu script.

Pulldown menus in HoudinI!

Date Created:Friday December 29th, 2006 03:41 AM
Date Modified:Friday August 01st, 2008 02:54 AM

CREATE: Dynamic dropdown menu listing mantra nodes with a menu script.

* This dropdown menu will allow us to control any mantra nodes dynamically.
* Create a string parameter, change the name to "node", Label to "Select Node:"
* Go to the Menu tab in Type Properties.
* Toggle on Use Menu, as well as Menu Script.
* Menus require two values, Token and Label.
* Token is the value you would get when using chs().
* Label is what you see when you are navigating through the menu items.

    # Basic menu script to understand using two values:
    # One value for Token, and the second value for Label:

    echo 1 on
    echo 0 off



    # Menu script using foreach():

    foreach x(`("object light shadow")`)
        echo $x $x
    end

* Use expressions like strreplace() on the label to make menus look nicer
* Use the run() expression to return the output of Hscript commands.
* Use the following code in the menu script:

    # Lists all nodes of type "mantra", within the path "/out"

    foreach x(`run("opfind -p /out -t mantra")`)
        echo $x `strreplace($x,"/out/","")`
    end
	

* Create a string parameter, change the name to "parameter", Label to "Select Parameter:"
* Go to the Menu tab in Type Properties.
* Toggle on Use Menu, as well as Menu Script.
* Use the following code:

    # Lists all the parameters of the selected node:

    set OP = `chs("node")`
    foreach z(`run("opparm -l $OP *")`)
        echo $z $z
    end

* Create a string parameter, change the name to "value", check off Label.

    # This is used as a callback on the parameter string to "get" the values:
    opparm `oppwf()` value ("`chsraw(chs("node") + "/" + chs("parameter"))`")
    

    # This is used as callback on the value string to "give" the values.
    opparm `chs("node")` `chs("parameter")` ("`chsraw("value")`")

* The difference between `chs()` and `chsraw()`:

    echo `chs("mantra1/picture")`
    /home/prisms/test.jpg

    echo `chsraw("mantra1/picture")`
    $HOME/test.jpg 

* Use source command along with chs() to source a script depending on what you select from pulldown.

    source opdef:.?`chs("button")`