In keeping with the tcl time theme, here's a little date/time format i put
into my Write nodes label
[expr { ([clock seconds] -[file mtime [value knob.file]]) /86400 }]d[clock
format [expr { [clock seconds] -[file mtime [value knob.file]] }] -format
{%Hh%Mm} -gmt true] ago
Tells me how long ago the node was rendered.
Michael
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Rich Bobo <richb...@mac.com> wrote:
> Magno,
>
> Thanks for those!
>
> Here are a couple of other 'date' command flavors that may be of use to
> somebody...
> *
> *
> *Date Formatting:*
> [date %D] 12/28/11
> [date %m%d%y] 122811
>
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Bobo
> Senior VFX Compositor
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>
> On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Magno Borgo wrote:
>
> I usually place the tcl inside the label of a backdropnode to test the
> results, in fact I have a toolset with several expressions saved on it:
>
> [join [lrange [split [file dirname [knob root.name]] "/"] 0 end-1] "/"]
> [file dirname [value root.name]]
> [lindex [split [value root.name] /] end]
> [lindex [split [lindex [split [value root.name] /] end] .] 0]
> [file tail [value root.name]]
> [file rootname [file tail [value root.name]]]
> [date %Hh%Mm%Ss]
>
>
> I like to append the date one on the filename of the quicktime previews,
> this way a new preview is always created, instead of overwriting and you
> can compare versions.
>
> Magno.
>
>
>
> Magno,
>
> That's a nice, compact way to disassemble and reassemble pathname
> components! I have used something similar with split before, but I didn't
> use join, which makes it a lot shorter than what I was doing! ;^)
>
> One question I have is, how do you debug your evaluated expression to make
> sure your pathname is what you want? What I've been doing is to attach a
> Text node after the Write node and view the result of the text message
> "[value Write1.file]" - or whatever the name of the Write node happens to
> be... That gives me an overlay of the printed path. When I look at the
> result of your expression, however, it is not evaluated. I get the same
> code that is typed in the file section - essentially what "[knob
> Write1.file]" would report. But when I use something like "[file dirname
> [file dirname [value root.name]]]" - I get the actual pathname that it's
> going to write to. Not sure why that would be. Any idea...?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Bobo
> Senior VFX Compositor
>
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> Web: http://richbobo.com/
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> On Apr 26, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Magno Borgo wrote:
>
> Try this one.
> [join [lrange [split [file dirname [knob root.name]] "/"] 0 end-1] "/"]
>
> Change "end-1" to end-2, end-3, and so on to go back on the directory
> structure
>
>
>
>
>
> Howard,
>
> Hmm... That just seems to append /../ to the path and doesn't actually
> perform the change directory command... Unless I'm missing something.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>
> On Apr 26, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Howard Jones wrote:
>
> [file dirname [value root.name]]/../
> to be more precise
>
> Howard
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Howard Jones <mrhowardjo...@yahoo.com>
> *To:* Nuke user discussion <nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 26 April 2012, 14:11
> *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Write node - TCL directory navigation question
>
> [file dirname [value root.name]]/../ [file tail [value root.name]]
> should do it I think
>
> Howard
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Rich Bobo <richb...@mac.com>
> *To:* Nuke-Users Mailing List <nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 26 April 2012, 13:57
> *Subject:* [Nuke-users] Write node - TCL directory navigation question
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to indicate a relative directory change in TCL? In a
> Write node, I'd like to designate the directory to write files to that is
> parallel to the one the script is in. I'm using this typical form to get
> the current script directory:
>
> [file dirname [file tail [value root.name]]]
>
> Then, I'd like to do the equivalent of 'cd ../different_dir'. So, I'd
> like to have a (hopefully short) chunk of code that would a) grab the
> script's current directory, b) navigate up one directory and c) indicate
> the parallel directory to write the files to. Should be easy - I just don't
> know if it's possible with TCL or if I have to combine some Python in
> there...
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Rich
>
>
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