Houdini 20.0 Python scripting hou hou.qt

hou.qt.ParmChooserButton class

A button with the Houdini look and feel that opens the Houdini node chooser dialog when clicked.

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This class inherits from Qt’s QtWidgets.QToolButton class.

Signals

parmSelected(str)

This signal is emitted when a selection is made in the node chooser dialog.

Methods

Examples

This example demonstrates creating a chooser button for parms and hooking it to a callback function that is invoked when a node is selected from the chooser dialog:

def onSelected(parm_path):
    print("Selected parm:", parm_path)

node_chooser_btn = hou.qt.ParmChooserButton()
node_chooser_btn.parmSelected.connect(onSelected)

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