Cobbler3D opened this issue on Jul 16, 2022 ยท 4 posts
Cobbler3D posted Sat, 16 July 2022 at 3:30 PM
Hi all,
Redoing favorites that all of a sudden disappear is not a favorite thing of mine to do...
I've been using DAZ since 2015 and over the years I must have had my favorites in the Script menu disappear inexplicably 10-12 times and it is enraging.My favorites list of stuff I use often is gigantic and redoing it manually makes my stomach get twisted in knots and I cuss up a storm each time.
The backup of the menu never works for me and having it just disappear is a huge workflow obstacle. Since I am rebuilding my DAZ environment from scratch because of the brand new PC it now sits in, I want to write a script that adds a list of various often-used presets to be added to a menu bar so I can just execute the script the next time DAZ chokes on my favorites section again (and it will). Can a script take care of this functionality or do I have to delve into the actual DAZ Studio API to make this work?
Thanks all!
RHaseltine posted Sat, 16 July 2022 at 3:40 PM
When backing up and restoring were you doing both the menus and CustomActions? The menus just use the ID for the command from Custom Actions (and that ID is not predtermined, so rebuilding the action list won't make the menus work).
Cobbler3D posted Sat, 16 July 2022 at 3:56 PM
Oh Yes,
Both menus and custom actions. Then when that didn't work, I would try merging/updating and that would fail too. I had just gotten done with redoing my favorites because it somehow wiped itself clean after a year of not doing it and then my PC went up in flames shortly after. It took me days to complete and now i am starting that process over and I want to do it via script now. At least i can maintain a list of my faves and keep adding it to a script over time so I can run it and know that it will work. Of course, if a script has the power to do that...
I still have my old Disk drives where DAZ is stored but i do not know what files to grab from it to carry over to the new PC - or if that will even work because they are files from the last version of DAZ I was using, 4.16...
Cobbler3D posted Sun, 17 July 2022 at 1:32 AM
This may be what I'm looking for...
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/actions/action_custom_create/start