Return Item name of ordered Menu

[freko12]

Hi, I have been struggling with this for the past 2 days.

I need help in returning the name of the selected item in an ordered menu.

 

What I am trying to achieve is to dynamically populate the ordered menu with the list of projects via menu scrip (python)

import os
path="k:/Projects/"
dirList = os.listdir(path)
dirs = []
for dirName in dirList:
    fullPath = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(path, dirName))
    if os.path.isdir(fullPath):
          #dirs += [fullPath, dirName]
          dirs += [dirName, dirName]

          
return dirs

This code scans for folders in directory(k:/Projects/) and lists them in the menu. All works fine till here.

 

Now I need to return the name value of the selected menu item from another parameter.
So I have tried this

listItemName = hou.pwd().parm("parmList_Projects").eval()

and this

listItemName =  hou.pwd().parm("parmList_Projects").evalAsString()

but it returns only integer values from (0,1,2,...)

How can I get the name or label value ?

Edited April 24, 2022 by freko12

[Stalkerx777]

It's easier to use a String type parameter (with a menu) for this instead of ordered menu. This way, eval() will return a string.

[freko12]

3 hours ago, Stalkerx777 said:

It's easier to use a String type parameter (with a menu) for this instead of ordered menu. This way, eval() will return a string.

Wow it worked like a charm. How come I overlooked this!

Thanks a ton Stalkerx777

Cheers!