Checking if an optional panel is open

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The View > Optional Panels menu lists the optional panels of the current layout. In the default layout, this includes the main command panel (MCP), the timeline, time range slider, and the Main Shelf.

To check if a panel is open, get the panel from the ActiveLayout.Views collection and check whether it’s visible:

LogMessage( Application.Desktop.ActiveLayout.Views("main_shelf").Visible );

The case that wouldn’t clone points

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Select Case doesn’t want to clone points. Suppose you have a set up like this:

If you plug Clone Point nodes into two consecutive Case ports, the first Clone Point only is executed.

If you plug something else into a Case port, between two Clone Points, then both Clone Points work:

But unfortunately I couldn’t trick ICE by multiplying the shapeID by 2. When I did that, ICE went back to evaluating the first Clone Point only.

Searching the SDK docs

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For the searching the current SDK documentation, I would install the SDK docs locally. The local docs use a different search that works better.

To download a single installer for both the User Guide and SDK Guide:
http://www.autodesk.com/softimage-documentation

Just the SDK:
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/softimage-2013-sdk-doc0.zip

Local search results are much better than the online search: