New Operator - Default Colour and Shape

[Aaron Auty]

I am trying to set the default colour and shape of a new operator.

 

I have tried overriding this virtual function in OP_Operator for the color;

virtual UT_Color getDefaultColor() const;

 And this in OP_Operator for the shape;

virtual const UT_StringHolder &getDefaultShape() const;

For the return I tried some of the shapes as listed when you print them out using HOM, "bone", "light" etc

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/NetworkEditor.html#nodeShapes

 

I am creating a sop driver, so would like to mimic the defaults as seen on these kinds of nodes.

Any ideas on setting these?

[symek]

1 hour ago, Aaron Auty said:

I am trying to set the default colour and shape of a new operator.

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Any ideas on setting these?

Doesn't it mirror HOM/Python? This should work:

SOP_MyNode::SOP_MyNode(OP_Network *net, const char *name, OP_Operator *op)
    : SOP_Node(net, name, op) {
    setUserData("nodeshape", "cloud", 1);
    setColor(UT_Color(UT_RGB, 1, 0, 0));
}

 

[Aaron Auty]

This works, brilliant, thanks Symek!

A lovely red cloud of a node