The old Nuke 4.x had this at a point. You could enable a W icon pointing to a Wiki page on the side of the ? icon on nodes. At that time Throb was maintaining a Nuke wiki and most nodes already had their wiki page. But then his site got hacked, went offline and I guess that feature fall in disuse and end up getting lost during the transition from D2 Software to The Foundry.
Would be great to see that re-surfacing in some way in Nuke. -diogo On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Ean Carr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > A few years ago, Bill S. was planning to add some kind of callback to the > '?' tooltip button so users could override it with their own function, to > do presumably something like nukescripts.start(...) to an internal wiki > site or something for extra help on any given node. It's an official > feature request #18247. Anyone wants to get this done, please email support > so maybe they'll bump up priority! > > Maybe additionally, I'd like URLs to work directly in the tooltip text. > So, you click the '?', you get the tooltip as usual, but we can put a URL > in there with a link to the wiki if anyone wants even more info on the > node. It seems a shame that basic formatting html works but not hyperlinks. > > -E > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Josh Imbruglia < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> thanks for the response frank, >> >> i've gone for the method of adding a new 'help' tab to all custom user >> created nodes with a pyscript button that opens up the web browser to >> the corresponding wiki entry. that seemed to be the easiest and most >> robust way. still not too sure what the Help_Knob is for then, looks >> legacy to me. haha >> >> cheers, >> josh >> >> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Frank Rueter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > You can edit the help knob by simply setting it's string: >> > node['help'].setValue( 'this is how to use this gizmo...' ) >> > >> > Or in the group's UI: right click > Edit Help >> > >> > I'm not sure what the actual Help_Knob object is (the above mentioned >> knob >> > is actually a EvalString_Knob). >> > >> > I remember a feature request from D2Software days to mimic a Shake >> feature >> > which would allow you to dynamically link nodes' help to a url. It >> would be >> > great to have an easy mechanism for this. >> > >> > The help knob is pretty useless for what you're after though, as it >> won't >> > allow you to click on it's text. >> > Your best bet is to add a right click menu item to all nodes' properties >> > panel and call a function that grabs the node's class and builds a url, >> then >> > opens it: >> > >> > >> > def loadWiki(): >> > >> > node = nuke.selectedNode() >> > >> > nodeClass = node.Class() >> > >> > url = 'www.myWiki/%s' % nodeClass >> > >> > print 'opening', url >> > >> > nuke.tcl('start %s') % url >> > >> > nuke.menu('Properties').addCommand( 'Open Wiki page', loadWiki ) >> > >> > >> > >> > I used the tcl command to open a url as nukescripts.start() doesn't >> seem to >> > do anything (might be a bug). >> > >> > Cheers, >> > frank >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On 1/06/12 9:16 PM, Josh Imbruglia wrote: >> > >> > hi everybody, >> > >> > just wondering if anyone knows of a best practice for adding a help to >> > all custom gizmos. I want to be able to link them to our wiki page for >> > a quick reference for new artists. >> > >> > so a couple questions i have are: >> > >> > what is the Help_Knob, is this what i want? it doesn't appear to >> > serialize so how does one use it? is it possible to setup an onCreate >> > callback that will add the Help_Knob dynamically for any custom gizmo? >> > >> > that begs me to ask, is there a way to detect if a node is an internal >> > Nuke one vs. a custom implementation? >> > >> > any ideas or thought would be more then welcome. >> > >> > cheers, >> > josh >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Nuke-python mailing list >> > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Nuke-python mailing list >> > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-python mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-python mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-python > >
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