File Open, Merge

[Anonymous]

hi there,

I am using MB2015 and I want to use the FileOpen and FileMerge with the options dialogue.

LOAD_UI = True
lapp = FBApplication()
lapp.FileOpen(path,LOAD_UI)

 I am wondering how do i get the Element all checked with 'Append' or 'Merge' by default instead of not checked at all as shown in the pictures below.

Thanks

[s]

Hi,

 please check a documentation page - http://docs.autodesk.com/MB/2014/ENU/MotionBuilder-SDK-Documentation/files/GUID-9CA39221-DEDB-4355-A...

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. I didn't use the load option because once I use it, I don't get to see the option dialogue anymore for some reasons. Do you have the same problem?

lapp = FBApplication()

load_options = FBFbxOptions(True)
load_options.SetAll(FBElementAction.kFBElementActionAppend, False)
lapp.FileOpen(path, True, load_options)

[s]

No, I don't remember that I was having that problem. But last time I was running script with that, I think it was on mobu 2013.

[s]

Default options you can specify in the config file - <My Documents>\MB\2015-x64\config\<User>/History.txt
There is a group for each dialog (save, load, merge), for example - [FbxSdkLoadOptions]

[Anonymous]

No luck. Juct checked the history, they are all AppendElement. I removed the config folder from the path you given and restart MB, the Elements in dialogue box still are not checked if it is called by script. FileOpen(path , True)

I tried MB2013, 2014, and 2015, once I used the load options, the dialogue box will be skipped.

The only difference I see in MB 2013 is the elelments are all checked by default with the command FileOpen(path , True)

Any suggestions? Should this be reported?

Thanks!

[s]

> I don't get to see the option dialogue anymore for some reasons.
Interesting, what steps do you make so that you couldn't see option dialog anymore ?

[Anonymous]

lapp.FileOpen(path, True, load_options)

The dialogue box will not appear If I add load_options flag for the third paramenter, the second paramenter is to load the UI, so I put True.

[s]

I've tried FileOpen with options and after option dialog works as usual.

[Anonymous]

It has never worked for me, may i copy your sample code and try it out? Which version of MB you are using?

[s]

I'm using 2014.

just a sample script
from pyfbsdk import *

mApp = FBApplication()

load_options = FBFbxOptions(True)
load_options.SetAll(FBElementAction.kFBElementActionAppend, False)
mApp.FileOpen("C:\test.fbx", True, load_options)

[Anonymous]

I ran the script, it opened up the file straight away without the dialogue box. 😞 Tried it with MB2014

[Anonymous]

There was an interesting found this morning. I got the dialogue box appear with elements all checked with Append when I opened one particular fbx file dated in 2012, probably created by MB2013 or earlier. So somehow the fbx file itself determines the behavior of the dialogue box, all fbxs created in mb2015 have failed to open with dialogue box, can anyone explain this?

[s]

Yes, you are right. I've tested a file created in 2014/2015 Mobu and now I have the same problem with open dialog box. But I couldn't find any other explanation as a simple bug.