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Forests
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Hi,

I was wondering: Is it possible to set Houdini's file browser to be the normal Finder file browser on Mac? Just like you can with the help?

https://houdinitricks.com/default-web-browser-houdini-docs/ [houdinitricks.com]

As you see here.

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cwhite
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You should be able to use the HOUDINI_USE_NATIVE_FILE_CHOOSERenvironment variable
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I have set that to 1 now, but when I relaunch Houdini and click File>Open, I still get the Houdini browser. Same if I set it to zero.

Am i doing something wrong?
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Did you change the preferences? There is a setting in the Houdini preferences for Native browser.
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>>Kays
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Thanks!
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Doesn't this preclude the ability to automatically open sequences using $F4? What is the benefit in a native file browser? On windows I can see wanting to have the same shortcuts, but it's not that hard to add stuff to the jump list.

I admit in real use, I rarely ever use the houdini file browser. Everthing is brought in through pipelined otls, database browser tools and other qt guis. Using a file browser at all is sort of going rogue.
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If you add this to your PARMmenu.xml you'll get an additional ‘pick file’ option in every file type parm's contextmenu. It will give open your native browser so you can comfortably browse and do stuff. This works side-by-side with the houdini browser so you can use the one best for the task at hand:


<scriptItem id="PickFileNative">
<context>
<expression>
<![CDATA[
try:
    return kwargs["parms"][0].parmTemplate().stringType().name()=='FileReference'
except:
    return False
]]>
</expression>
</context>
<label>Pick File</label>
<scriptCode>
<![CDATA[ 
import sys
import os
from PySide2 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets

path=os.getcwd()
try:
    path=(os.environ['hip'])
except:
    pass

try:
    if os.path.dirname(kwargs["parms"][0].eval())!='':
        path=os.path.dirname(kwargs["parms"][0].eval())
except:
    pass

filename = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(None, 'Pick a File', path, 'All Files(*.*)')
if  (filename[0]!=''):
    kwargs["parms"][0].set(filename[0])
]]>
</scriptCode>
</scriptItem>
Edited by Jonathan de Blok - Jan. 6, 2020 12:43:21
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Jonathan de Blok
If you add this to your PARMmenu.xml

Which point should add this code?
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jerry7
Jonathan de Blok
If you add this to your PARMmenu.xml

Which point should add this code?

Find the PARMmenu.xml and in there look for

<scriptitem>
….
</scriptitem>

blocks. The code for the browser is such a block as well. In textport panel you can do a ‘menurefresh’ to make it work without restarting Houdini.
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