Daily Archives: March 2, 2011

A little more about the interactive tool SDK

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Softimage 2012 includes several examples of custom tools built with the new interactive tool SDK. For example, there’s the Box Transform Tool:

The Box Transform Tool is a complex manipulator-style tool that uses highlighting, shortcut keys, context menus and on-screen controls.

Interactive tools are a new type of custom plugin, implemented in C++. You need to know OpenGL, because it is used for drawing and picking in the viewport. More here…

Getting the screen resolution

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This snippet uses WMI to get the screen resolution.

GetMonitorResolution();

function GetMonitorResolution()
{
       var wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 0x10;

       var Mode        = wbemFlagReturnImmediately;
       var Query       = "Select * from Win32_VideoController";
       var oWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts:\\\\.\\root\\cimv2" );
       var oCollection = oWMIService.ExecQuery( Query, "WQL", Mode );

       var oItems = new Enumerator( oCollection );

       for ( ; !oItems.atEnd(); oItems.moveNext() ) {

               var oItem = oItems.item();

               // dump info
               LogMessage( "Resolution [x,y]: " +
				oItem.CurrentHorizontalResolution + ", " +
				oItem.CurrentVerticalResolution );
       }

       return;
}

For me, this script outputs the resolution of both monitors:

// INFO : Resolution [x,y]: 1280, 1024
// INFO : Resolution [x,y]: 1920, 1200

Credit: Matt Lind, on the XSI mailing list