Shelf Tool from OTL Scripted Button

[abvfx]

Hey guys, 

So the curvegroom sop has a "scripted select" button for selecting primitives to groom.

This is not to be mistaken with the standard reselect command with `. It it a different animal upon inspection of the asset.

Because of this, i am unable to define a hotkey for it with the standard hotkey manager. But if i were to make the function a shelf tool then i could set a custom hotkey for it.

However my python skills are somewhat lacking and was wondering if anyone knew of the how to create this seemingly simple button.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Edited June 16, 2016 by abvfx

[MrScienceOfficer]

import toolutils
import furtoolutils

node = hou.selectedNodes()[0]

sv = toolutils.sceneViewer()
selection = sv.selectGeometry("Select Curves To Groom", 0, True, False, False)

kwargs['node'] = node
furtoolutils.startGrooming(kwargs, tool="groomsurface")

if(len(selection.selectionStrings())) :
    node.parm("group").set(selection.selectionStrings()[0])
    
node.parm('stroke_changedsel').set(True)

 

 

This should handle it. 

 

Edited June 18, 2016 by MrScienceOfficer
Won't throw error on empty selection anymore

[abvfx]

Tom. Thank you. 

 

It works perfectly. I have bound this function to a key and it now works flawlessly.  I changed "groomsurface" to "groomscreen" as that is what i use most often.  

 

Thank you so much.