I’m looking for some documentation about "Action Button" tab in "Edit Parameter Interface"..

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Hi;

I’m looking for some documentation/Tutorial about “Action Button” tab in “Edit Parameter Interface”.


Thanks for helping.

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https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini17.0/ref/windows/optype.html#action-button-sub-tab [www.sidefx.com]
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Thank you “goldfarb”;
Is there any tutorial about how to work with this?
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not that I know of, search the forums here and at odforce
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Is there any tutorial about how to work with this?
there is not much else to it

so as mentioned on the goldfarb's link
- put a code in there that you want to be executed when the action button is clicked
- use kwargs dictionary variable to access some intrinsic data (node, parmtuple, …)

so overall it's similar to setting up a parameter callback for a button
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What confuse me is why this is the action button section is to accessible (empty) with a button parameter?

Only in with an event. I tried to build one but for now im failing



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Is there any tutorial about how to work with this?
there is not much else to it

so as mentioned on the goldfarb's link
- put a code in there that you want to be executed when the action button is clicked
- use kwargs dictionary variable to access some intrinsic data (node, parmtuple, ...)

so overall it's similar to setting up a parameter callback for a button

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Edit i found some answer but so far i didn't found great use of the action button feature compare to a simple button with a callback.

Until the moment when i decided to boost the default Sidefx "Null" with a bunch of additional features. It's not an HDA so there is no script module attached and if you could execute a bunch of python instructions in a single line format, it's rather limited!

But with action button , you could run a full standard python script that way !

Very handy... i don't think people know this so i thought was worth sharing
Edited by vinyvince - Sept. 9, 2024 16:20:39
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