hou.hipFile.save but stay in the same session.

[younglegend]

Hello! I came across this super useful script by F1 few weeks ago which allows me to save hip files with comments. But i'd like to know if there's a way to save a scene while staying in current session. (i.e a new file save but stay on the current hip file) 

 

import os.path as op
import hou

# Fetch tuple with index of pressed button and input text.
choice, text = hou.ui.readInput('Type comments message',
                                help='Type comments description.',
                                title='Commented HIP',
                                buttons=('OK', 'Cancel'),
                                default_choice=1,
                                close_choice=1)

# If OK was pressed with some non-empty text.
if choice == 0:
    path = hou.hipFile.path()

    # Replace existing comment.
    if text:
        dir, name = op.split(path)
        name = op.splitext(name)[0]
        name = name.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
        name = '%s.%s.hip' % (name, text)
        path = op.join(dir, name)
        path = op.normpath(path)

    hou.hipFile.save(path)
    print(path)

 

Edited November 25, 2017 by kishenpj

[garf]

I guess you would want to save the current session as temp file before running this script. Then once this script has run open the temp file.

[garf]

import os.path as op
import hou

activeSession = hou.hipFile.name()
print activeSession

# Fetch tuple with index of pressed button and input text.
choice, text = hou.ui.readInput('Type comments message',
                                help='Type comments description.',
                                title='Commented HIP',
                                buttons=('OK', 'Cancel'),
                                default_choice=1,
                                close_choice=1)

# If OK was pressed with some non-empty text.
if choice == 0:
    # save tmp file
    tmp = ('').join(hou.hipFile.name().split('.')[0]) + '_tmp.hip'
    hou.hipFile.save(tmp)
    
    # set path name to the current session name
    path = activeFilename

    # Replace existing comment.
    if text:
        dir, name = op.split(path)
        name = op.splitext(name)[0]
        name = name.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
        name = '%s.%s.hip' % (name, text)
        path = op.join(dir, name)
        path = op.normpath(path)

    # save off the newly commented version
    hou.hipFile.save(path)
    # load the tmp file
    hou.hipFile.load(tmp)
    # rename it to the original session name
    hou.hipFile.setName(activeSession)
    
    print(path)

    It's clunky - but it does what you want it to
    

Edited November 27, 2017 by garf

[younglegend]

3 hours ago, garf said:

import os.path as op
import hou

activeSession = hou.hipFile.name()
print activeSession

# Fetch tuple with index of pressed button and input text.
choice, text = hou.ui.readInput('Type comments message',
                                help='Type comments description.',
                                title='Commented HIP',
                                buttons=('OK', 'Cancel'),
                                default_choice=1,
                                close_choice=1)

# If OK was pressed with some non-empty text.
if choice == 0:
    # save tmp file
    tmp = ('').join(hou.hipFile.name().split('.')[0]) + '_tmp.hip'
    hou.hipFile.save(tmp)
    
    # set path name to the current session name
    path = activeFilename

    # Replace existing comment.
    if text:
        dir, name = op.split(path)
        name = op.splitext(name)[0]
        name = name.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
        name = '%s.%s.hip' % (name, text)
        path = op.join(dir, name)
        path = op.normpath(path)

    # save off the newly commented version
    hou.hipFile.save(path)
    # load the tmp file
    hou.hipFile.load(tmp)
    # rename it to the original session name
    hou.hipFile.setName(activeSession)
    
    print(path)

    It's clunky - but it does what you want it to
    

Might be a problem if the file size is big but this is a good workaround! ....and the only choice i guess. 

[younglegend]

Well, this one works! 

import os.path as op
import hou

activeSession = hou.hipFile.name()

# Fetch tuple with index of pressed button and input text.
choice, text = hou.ui.readInput('Type comments message',
                                help='Type comments description.',
                                title='Commented HIP',
                                buttons=('OK', 'Cancel'),
                                default_choice=1,
                                close_choice=1)

# If OK was pressed with some non-empty text.
if choice == 0 and text:
    path = hou.hipFile.path()
    dir, name = op.split(path)

    # Discard extension.
    name = op.splitext(name)[0]

    # Discard one '.anytext' occurence at the end.
    name = name.rsplit('.', 1)[0]

    # Make new name with input text.
    new_name = '%s.%s.hip' % (name, text)

    # Finally, create an absolute path to save file to.
    new = op.normpath(op.join(dir, new_name))

    # Save the file.
    hou.hipFile.save(file_name=new, save_to_recent_files=False)
    hou.hipFile.setName(path)
    print "File saved to - " + (new)