[SOLVED]Python Button Call Def?

[Atom]

Hi All,

I have a python node that I have added a button to that nodes user interface.

I want the button to call a def inside the python script of the self node.

I use the code from the help file but it does not work.

Code in button:

kwargs['node'].hdaModule().onButtonPress()

Code in script:

def onButtonPress():
    print "click"
	

What more do I need to make this work?

Edited July 18, 2016 by Atom

[dennis.albus]

Hey there,

the script parameter of the python node is not where you want to put your callback scripts. It is meant for processing incoming geometry.

You need to create a new Digital Asset definition and put the callback script into the hdaModule.

• Go to the Type Properties of your HDA and select the script tab.
• From the Event Handler dropdown menu select "Python Module".
• Write your "onButtonPress" funtion in there (it can have any name you want).
• Now you can call that with a button callback script.
   

hou.phm().onButtonPress() # hou.phm() is a shortcut to getting the current node's hdaModule

If you want to have a user editable script in your node you can run it like this:

exec(hou.pwd().parm("python").eval()); onButtonPress()

Cheers,

Dennis

Edited July 18, 2016 by dennis.albus

[Atom]

Thanks, I was hoping for something much simpler.

I don't want to make an HDA I just want to run code from clicking a button. I was hoping to just have a button be part of my script.

 

[mestela]

That code you found in the help is for when you define functions on the 'scripts' tab of a digital asset (ah, Dennis has replied while I was typing!). Defining it as a digital asset is The Right Way, but if you wanna go hacky...

In your case, you have a node parm (named 'python'), which is a string. To make python execute code in a string, just wrap it in 'exec':

   exec('print 32')

But you have a function within the string instead: 

   exec('def onClick():\n   print "hello"')

When you exec the string, that function becomes known to python, so you can just call it. To do it in one line, there's a cheat in python that a ';' works as a newline:

   exec('def onClick():\n   print "hello"') ; onClick()

Your string is actually a parm on the node. To get to the parm:

   kwargs['node'].parm('python')

To actually return the contents of that parm as a string, eval it:

   kwargs['node'].parm('python').eval()

So now that we have that as a string, wrap it in exec(), then call the function afterwards:

   exec(kwargs['node'].parm('python').eval());onClick()

And that's the callback you put on the button.

That's all _very_ hacky though, doing it in an HDA is cleaner.

 

-matt

 

[Atom]

Thanks fellows, those work!

I had to remember to change the callback script type from hscript to python as well.

I just needed a simple button to zero out some parameters on the script.

 

[Atom]

One thing I do notice is that the above mentioned technique only works for a single button added to the interface. If I add multiple buttons to the interface and change the call to another def, that def is never called?

I realize I am evaluating the entire script every time the button is called but after that evaluation occurs shouldn't the follow up call take place? I don't get an error, just nothing happens?

.

.

.

Edit: Never mind, I forgot to switch the new buttons from hScript to Python. Now they work as expected.

 

Edited July 18, 2016 by Atom

[Bart87]

Hi,

I am looking similar solution, this works for the python script node in obj path. My python node is under path /obj/geo/subnet, and the button is on subnet node.
How I can use similar callback script as above? I am not sure do I understand correctly

     exec(kwargs['node'].parm('python').eval());onClick()

the 'node' is it a node where is a button?
'python' is a parameter on that node?

am I right?
if yes, I did something like 

    exec(kwargs['/obj/geo/subnet/py'].parm('python').eval());onClick()

'py' is my python node name
I think I miss understand something here or maybe I write inncorectly

I need a hand with this part.

 

Thank you

[dennis.albus]

You want to write it like this:

exec(hou.node('/obj/geo/subnet/py').parm('python').eval());onClick()

Or even better relative to the current node:

exec(hou.node(hou.pwd().path() + '/subnet/py').parm('python').eval());onClick()

kwargs is a prefilled dictionary that contains information about the current node, the parm that has been changed/executed and can be used as a convenient way to grab that information in your code. You can simply run 

print(kwargs)

to see what information it contains.

Edited November 5, 2017 by dennis.albus

[Bart87]

9 minutes ago, dennis.albus said:

You want to write it like this:

exec(hou.node('/obj/geo/subnet/py').parm('python').eval());onClick()

Or even better relative to the current node:

exec(hou.node(hou.pwd().path() + '/subnet/py').parm('python').eval());onClick()

kwargs is a prefilled dictionary that contains information about the current node, the parm that has been changed/executed and can be used as a convenient way to grab that information in your code. You can simply run 

print(kwargs)

to see what information it contains.

Works, thank you. 

[philpappas]

On 11/5/2017 at 9:43 PM, Bart87 said:

Works, thank you. 

Can you share an example? i'm trying to use the button press as a switch. when pressed val = 1

 

i have a python node with a button parameter on its interface.

and in the pythoncode i want to use that button press to make val=1

[MonicaDale]

Hi,

I wanted to expose the "Export" button which is inside sop_terrain_texture_rop node inside my subnet to a button in my HDA. Can some one help me out how to achive this. I'm not really good with programming . Can someone help me out???