Get current variant in a Web interface

[hobbotuk]

Hi,

We are doing some inteface, and we would like to get and show the name of the current variant, for example using

 te return of the getNodeVariantCurrent()  function

we have tried with

http://localhost:8888/pythoneval?value=getNodeVariantCurrent()

but we get a webpage, not a simplre string.

we also tried in the HTML with

<script>

Icon_Click = function() {

var i = document.createElement("img");

i.src="http://localhost:8888/variants?value=getNodeVariantCurrent('Name of the Variant')";

};

</script>

But it doesnt work

We are lost, and dont know what esle to try, any help?

Thanks in advence!

[sinje_thiedemann · Accepted solution]

Hi,
if you use the html page inside VRED through Media Editor, or Sceneplate Editor, you have access to a special java script object called vred, that has a method "executePythonCommand" to execute Python methods in VRED and get the return value:

function myFunction() {
   vred.executePythonCommand("getNodeVariantCurrent('Environments')", function(value)
   { 
      // do something with the value returned 
      alert(value); 
   });
}

 Please note, this will not work if you open the html page in a browser outside VRED.

For that, you need to do an HTML GET request with the pythoneval url. See this post: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vred-forum/html-5-support-in-media-editor-vred-demo-scene/m-p/7444019...

Kind regards

Sinje

[seiferp · Accepted solution]

I´ve attached a simple example.

[hobbotuk]

Crazy!!!

This is exactly what aI was lookinf for!!

Thank you sow much to both of you!