I am doing the ASCII parsing with a template file setup and it works great...
/Christian - Sent from my iPhone - On Dec 16, 2010, at 8:50, Pierre A <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm facing an issue regarding references which are deleted on load > when their path does not correspond to an existing file. > > The user have a browse option to remap to an existing file, I'm > looking for a way to reproduce the behavior in a python script. I've > found no help in Echo All nor missingReferenceDialog.mel... > > Otherwise, perhaps these workflows could work: > - parse the maya file ( if it's in ascii ), find the lines > corresponding to the creation of the references and test for the file > path. They should be like: > file -r -ns "NS" -dr 1 -rfn "REF_NAME" "PATH"; > and > file -rdi 1 -ns "NS" -rfn "REF_NAME" "PATH"; > But I don't know if it's safe... > > - add a call back ( MSceneMessage.Message.kBeforeCreateReferenceCheck > or MSceneMessage.Message.kBeforeCreateReference ), but I don't know > which enum to use nor the callback associated ( addCallback, > addCheckCallback, addCheckFileCallback ) and the data accessible in > the callback. > > Of course I need to have access to the name of the reference node, > associated to the file path. Best would be to be able to instantiate > it as a PyNode (or get its attrs with maya.cmds) > > Thanks! > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
