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Subject: Remember floating-docked and position

vholf opened this issue on Sep 08, 2012 · 7 posts
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vholf ( ) posted Sat, 08 September 2012 at 7:38 PM · edited Thu, 23 January 2025 at 9:46 PM

Hello,

I've created a python script with a small window with some info, I'd like Poser to remember if the window was floating/docked and it's position in the interface from the last run.

Does Poser have a way to handle this configuration? or do I have to watch the position and resize events, and build my own config file?.

I'm using Poser 2012 SR3, but avoiding the Addon framework for backward compatibility.

Thanks :)

LaurieA ( ) posted Sat, 08 September 2012 at 8:35 PM · edited Sat, 08 September 2012 at 8:40 PM

http://forum.runtimedna.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=787

This a really useful script. It has a startup manager that opens to place scripts between sessions. Also, Netherworks has a script that will launch any script on Poser startup (in RDNA Zero Priced Items). If you use that to open the Startup Manager then you have a nice panel with your favorite scripts that will launch when Poser does :).

Laurie


markschum ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 12:13 AM

I believe you have to manage things with a config file.

vholf ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 1:34 AM

Thank you.

I do know this has to be handled with a config file, what I'm wondering is if Poser has any undocumented features to do that, or if I have to do things manually.

The script is very very simple, adding a config handler class and parsing config files would require more effort than writing the script itself lol, but if there's no other way...

Dizzi ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 4:33 AM

Yes, Poser has a way: UI dots ;-) They save script positions, too, but you'll have to click the stored UI dot after loading the script of course ;-)

You don't need any parsing, if you use pickle.dump() and pickle.load() to store your data. 


Snarlygribbly ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 11:27 AM

Quote - The script is very very simple, adding a config handler class and parsing config files would require more effort than writing the script itself lol, but if there's no other way...

Actually, this is fairly trivial and only requires a few lines of code added to your script.

Python has all the functionality you need built into it - just use the ConfigParser module:

http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

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vholf ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 11:49 AM

Aha! thank you guys, that's what I thought, being such a trivial issue I was certain there were libraries or classes ready to do the job.

Most apreciated.

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