Houdini Python hou.setPreferance

[tagosaku]

I am learning python, and found hou.setPreference is very useful. However, I cannot find what exact names and values we can write in hou.setPreference(XXX,XX). Do we have that info/list in sidefx document pages?  

So far, I only found some in odForce, not from sidefx:

        hou.setPreference("general.autosaveinterval.val", "15")
        hou.setPreference("general.autosaveinc.val", "2")
        hou.appendSessionModuleSource('''hou.hscript("autosave on")''')

Or ideally Sidefx implements a feature that houdini can monitor what a user change parameters in UI, and automatically generate python code in python window? (I know we can drag and drop a parameter to python winodw to generate parm's path, but more convinient way ^^.)

 

[JXS]

Hi! Yes. I recall helping out sometime last year on a similar topic. To get the list of names and values, you can run the following quick snippet on a Python shell:

list_of_prefs = sorted(hou.getPreferenceNames())
for pref in list_of_prefs:
  print(pref + ": " + hou.getPreference(pref))

Basically, hou.getPreferenceNames() will return a tuple of all the preference names (the names you would use in setPreference). the sorted function is optional.

In a loop, you can process each name to get its current value using hou.getPreference().

[tagosaku]

Jael, 

That's perfect!, thanks! ! SideFX should write it on that document.  Just in case, I am pasting all the commands here for everyone.:

 

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