saving an X-Ref in custom parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:30:25 GMT

I'm trying to create an X-Ref Dummy. It should be able to load, update/reload and delete the XRef that will automaticalle be linked to it.

Its hard however to know what the XRef is once you created it. The Dummy does not have it as a children object and finding the right one iterating through the xref list is verry cheesy since you can load one max file as Xref multiple times.

So I thought it should be possible to simply store the XRef in the custom parameters in the Dummy (as with manny other parameters) but this seems to be a bit complicated

I came up with this so far:

THE_EVE_X_REF=attributes EVE_X_REF(
	parameters X_REF_Settings rollout:X_REF_Roll(
		--other params
		
		the_Xref_Scene type:#filename assettype:#XRef enumAsAsset:true
		--other params
	)
	rollout X_REF_Roll "X-Ref Dummy"(

... bla bla

fn load_xref a_path=(
	if a_path != undefined and (doesfileexist a_path) then(
		new_Xref = xrefs.addNewXRefFile a_path
		new_Xref.parent = get_Master_Dummy()
		(get_Master_Dummy()).baseObject.EVE_X_REF.the_Dummy_name = new_Xref
	)
)

The compiler says that it can not assign an Xref-File to the String filename
so my problem really is making an apropiate space for an xref in the parameters but I do not know how to do that.
can someone please help me?

Re: saving an X-Ref in custom parameters

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:23:32 GMT

of course this should be (get_Master_Dummy()).baseObject.EVE_X_REF.the_Xref_Scene = new_Xref

still, there is the same error 😕

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