Updating a combo box from an OnClicked callback

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To update the contents of a combo box from a button OnClicked callback, you use the PPGItem.UIItems property.

Here’s a simple example that shows how:

import win32com.client
from win32com.client import constants

null = None
false = 0
true = 1

def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ):
    in_reg.Author = "blairs"
    in_reg.Name = "ComboTestPlugin"
    in_reg.Major = 1
    in_reg.Minor = 0

    in_reg.RegisterProperty("ComboTest")

    return true

def XSIUnloadPlugin( in_reg ):
    strPluginName = in_reg.Name
    return true

def ComboTest_Define( in_ctxt ):
    oCustomProperty = in_ctxt.Source
    oCustomProperty.AddParameter2("List",constants.siInt4,0,0,100,0,100,constants.siClassifUnknown,constants.siPersistable + constants.siKeyable)
    return true

def ComboTest_DefineLayout( in_ctxt ):
    oLayout = in_ctxt.Source
    oLayout.Clear()
    oLayout.AddEnumControl("List", ("chocolate", 0, "vanilla", 1, "strawberry", 2), "Flavor", constants.siControlCombo )
    oLayout.AddButton("Update")
   
    return true

def ComboTest_Update_OnClicked( ):
    Application.LogMessage("ComboTest_Test_OnClicked called")
    x = ("Coffee Heath Bar Crunch", 0, "Cherry Garcia", 1, "Dulce Delux", 2 )
    PPG.PPGLayout.Item("List").UIItems = x
    Application.LogMessage( PPG.PPGLayout.Item("List").UIItems )
    PPG.Refresh()

DENIED: Licensed number of users already reached

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I’ve been asked several times about “Licensed number of users already reached” errors that appear in the LMTOOLS debug log file for render farm nodes that are running xsibatch.

If you have more than one render node running xsibatch, it is normal to see “Licensed number of users already reached” in the logs.

There are five Batch licenses (for brevity, I’ll call them B1, B2, B3, B4, and B5 because the real license names are like 79000SFTIMASIB1_F).
Each machine will take one of these Batch license.
xsibatch always tries to check out B1 first, then B2, then B3, and so on.

For example:

The machine “example1” starts xsibatch, and checks out the “B1” license.
The second machine “example2” starts xsibatch and tries to check out “B1” but cannot, because the B1 license is already in use.
So “example2” tries to check out the “B2” license.

This is what we see in the LMTOOLS debug log file:

14:47:29 (adskflex) OUT: "79000SFTIMASIB1_F" render@example1  
14:47:29 (adskflex) OUT: "85563SFTIMSIB1_2011_0F" render@example1  
14:48:19 (adskflex) DENIED: "79000SFTIMASIB1_F" render@example2  (Licensed number of users already reached. (-4,342))
14:48:19 (adskflex) DENIED: "85563SFTIMSIB1_2011_0F" render@example2  (Licensed number of users already reached. (-4,342))
14:49:00 (adskflex) OUT: "79100SFTIMASIB2_F" render@example2  
14:49:00 (adskflex) OUT: "85563SFTIMSIB2_2011_0F" render@example2

In “render@example1”, “render” is the name of the user, and “example1” is the name of the machine.

Softimage on the Macbook Air?

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Actually, this picture shows a video tutorial of Softimage 😉 on my 11″ MacBook Air.

You can run Maya on a MacBook Air, so I think I’ll be able to get Softimage to work.

According the Apple support, you need an optical drive to install Windows with Bootcamp. But I did find this post on reviews.cnet.com that shows to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Air from a USB drive, so I’m going to try that. As soon as I decide whether to spend yet more money and purchase Windows 7.

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I walked by this sign on the way to work Friday morning. I didn’t see the other side.

Closer to work is the old Darling Foundry building, which houses an art center (that’s a metal sculpture on the roof).

Autodesk has the best coffee machines of anywhere I’ve worked.
I believe this machine is the original Discreet Logic expresso machine.

The cafeteria. The support team sits in the adjacent section, behind the glass doors.

I had lunch at the Cluny artbar in the Darling Foundry.

My Macbook Air. Got it for Christmas from my wife. I couldn’t have been more surprised 🙂 and I love it.
The top-right picture shows the Macbook Air sitting on my work laptop.

View of downtown on the walk back to the train station.

XSI List – 2010 retrospective

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I compiled these numbers by copying and pasting from an Outlook message list view to Excel, and then creating some pivot tables.

There were 365 posts on threads with “Lagoa” in the subject.

Gear/StudioNest threads came in at positions #11 and #12.

The “test” thread came in at #23, with 39 posts.

Top 10 threads (by number of posts)

Thread Posts
Soft 2011 198
Thanks Autodesk. 125
XSI – ICE UI brainstorming 105
ICE Bullet physics… 84
more lack of exposure (was Thanks Autodesk) 79
Softimage Studios 78
A Softimage message 77
GEAR 1.0.0 Released 74
Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 73
Viewcube tip 68

Top 10 Posters

Poster Posts
Alan Fregtman 463
Eric Thivierge 429
Stephen Blair 338
Steven Caron 278
Raffaele Fragapane 257
David Rivera 245
Joe Williamsen 224
Matt Lind 218
Stefan Andersson 186
Morten Bartholdy 182