Roy Nieterau

Is there any good way to query the currently configured audio panel settings? I'm in particular looking to query the currently selected file or CHOPs?

I've seen the hou.audio module [www.sidefx.com]. However, it has no ways to query the currently set values - only ways to set new values.

Then there is the hscript equivalent audiopanel [www.sidefx.com] which when executed without arguments would print the current configuration.

As such - the only way seems to parse the result of that into Python object, e.g. similar to this quick prototype [github.com].

Is there an easier way to access this?

Preferably there would just be access to e.g. `hou.audio.filename()` etc.

> Would be nice to have access to the data it is using to filter them under the hood.

Agreed - interested to hear how Houdini itself filters these. E.g. it can also detect LOP Import Camera in `/obj` is 'a camera' but there doesn't seem to be a `hou.ObjNode` way of querying whether it's a camera in that sense.

For now I ended up computing the context options from the ROP myself and and writing a context options context manager to apply them temporarily. The code is here [github.com].