evaluating display flag in OBJ level

[avak]

Hi,

I know how to check display flag in sop level by python, but how can I do in obj level

I want to write something like this so it checks box 1 display status and apply that status to box 2,

import hou
box1 = hou.node('/obj/box1')
box2 = hou.node('/obj/box2')
box1.setDisplayFlag("EVALUATE DISPLAY FLAG OF BOX2")

 

Edited October 17, 2020 by avak

[Atom]

In almost all coding languages, a "flag" is considered to be a boolean value, or an integer that is 1 or 0.

Try passing a number instead of a string.

box2.setDisplayFlag(1)

 

[avak]

Thanks to replay, although I think I wasn't clear enough,

I know about boolean things (..at least )

but I want to know how to get the display flag status of a node  and store it's value in a variable then pass it to another node's display flag 

 

[Atom]

I think you can use the companion get function for that.

import hou
box1 = hou.node('/obj/box1')
box2 = hou.node('/obj/box2')
box1.setDisplayFlag(box2.getDisplayFlag()) 

 

[avak]

Thats exactly my problem, I get this error

 The attempted operation failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hou.session", line 4, in <module>
AttributeError: 'ObjNode' object has no attribute 'getDisplayFlag'

[avak]

the interesting part is we can use setDisplayFlag but we don't have something to getDisplayFlag and thats where I stuck

Edited October 18, 2020 by avak

[Alain2131]

Hi avak !

I suggest you to look at the documentation page for the ObjNode

If you search for "display" in the page, you'll see that indeed, "getDisplayFlag" doesn't exist
Instead, it is called isDisplayFlagSet

Hope that helps !

Edited October 19, 2020 by Alain2131

[avak]

Thank you