PARMmenu - how do i insert custom functions

[sanostol]

Hi, I want to add custom scripts to the PARMmenu, so I can for add custom tools for parameters on rightclick, but I can not find any docs about it.

I want to add actionItem "Plot", but I think I need help here

thanks Martin

[edward]

As sort of noted in PARMmenu.xml, take a look at MainMenuMaster The format and how it works is pretty much the same. Hopefully that clears things up a bit.

[sanostol]

thanks alot , it works, but it leads directly to the next question.

any python script leads to an houdini errormessage, blaming for syntax error.

even

import hou

results in this error

are there any examples available for this. it seems a little but "underdocumented"

As sort of noted in PARMmenu.xml, take a look at MainMenuMaster The format and how it works is pretty much the same. Hopefully that clears things up a bit.

[sanostol]

i'm doing a workaround now, maybe someone can use it..

instead of adding a scriptitem I add a scriptCode to the PARMmenu.xml file. that imports just a module from my pythonpath and runs a method from that.

<scriptCode>

import houdini.mm_utils

houdini.mm_utils.plot_anim(kwargs['parms'])

</scriptCode>

but still the other way would be interesting, too

[edward]

A scriptCode tag can only go into a scriptItem tag. I forgot to also point out MotionEffectsMenu.xml that you should take a look at. From there, it uses choptoolutils a lot which can be found in $HH/scripts/python

[Guest mantragora]

A little off-topic, since I need to parse XML file myself for HDK right now, I looked at some free libraries to do this, but since Houdini uses XML files the simple question grown in my head:

- is there a XML parser available in HDK or should I use external library?

[graham]

Have a look at the UT_XML* classes in the HDK.

[Guest mantragora]

Oh yeah. That's what I needed. Thanks.