operators are in play... regards, rodrigob.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Bassam Kurdali <[email protected]> wrote: > Quick question: what are you trying to do? Can you avoid using operators and > just do it using bpy.data? > > On Wed May 2 2012 07:59:45 AM EDT, Rodrigo Benenson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Blender mailing list, >> >> I just spent 3 hours on the blender IRC trying to figure out how to >> automate a specific task using a python script called via "blender >> --python script.py". >> >> The purpose of the script is to open a blender file, apply some >> operations and save the new blender file. >> This must be done without any click from the user, so that the process >> can be called via command line (i.e. as part of a bigger system). >> >> Quite rapidly I entered into "context hell" trying to figure out the >> proper context to call "bpy.ops.graph.select_all_toggle(); >> bpy.ops.graph.sample()". >> The answer to this was "the_scene.objects.active = the_object; >> bpy.context.area.type='GRAPH_EDITOR' " (found by someone in the IRC 2 >> hours after my first attempt). >> >> The key problem now is that when running via "blender --python >> script.py" bpy.context.area is None, this seems to be a consequence of >> bpy.context.window being None. >> >> > From what I could gather in the IRC, no one is aware of a method to >> create a new window (or setup properly the bpy.context.area) from >> python. >> In this case the documentation is of no help (it does not even mention >> bpy.context.area). >> >> Being able to launch automated tasks via "blender --python script.py" >> seems like a natural usage of this feature, and has multiple use >> cases. >> >> Does any one have a suggestion/idea on how we could make this work ? >> >> Thanks for your input. >> Best regards, >> rodrigob. >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-python mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-python > _______________________________________________ Bf-python mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-python
