Timer Tools

To install the example

• Connect to the Softimage SDK workgroup at %XSISDK_ROOT%\examples\workgroup.

  1. In the Plug-in Manager, click the Workgroups tab.
  2. Click File and then click Connect.
  3. In the Connect to Workgroup dialog box, click , locate the workgroup folder and then click Select.

To view the help page for an example

• Do one of the following:
  • In the Plug-in Tree, expand the SDK examples workgroup, right-click the example add-on and then click Help.
  • Open a Net View and click to go to Softimage Net local. In the top navigation bar, click add-ons, and then click the SDK example add-on.

To run the example

• The timer tools plug-in contains several timer demos which can be enabled, disabled and reset from the Timer Tools PPG.
• You can open the Timer Tools PPG by executing the ShowTimerTools command.

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• You can open the Timer Tools PPG from the Timer Tools menu located in the main menu bar.

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• You can manage these timers from the Plugin Manager Event panel.

Timers included in this example

• Auto Save Scene: Automatically saves the current scene every 15 seconds.
• Auto Script Editor Backup: Dumps the content of the script editor in a backup file every 10 seconds.
• Sub-component extruder: This sample combines an event timer with the key up and key down events to extrude any selected geometry sub-components. If you hit the F2 key, the selected sub-components is extruded and an event timer is started. While you hold down the F2 key, the timer callback kicks in and increases the length parameter of the extrusion operator by 1 unit every 50 milliseconds. This stops as soon as you release the F2 key.
• Auto Freeze Modeling: Freezes the selected object modeling operator(s) every 20 secs.
• Show Banner: Opens Netview with a banner file 5 seconds after Softimage has been started or after the Show Banner Timer as been enabled (unmuted). This demo uses a single timer which only fires once. A single timer disables itself after it has been executed for the first time.

Keywords

This example uses the following keywords:

JScript, RegisterTmerEvent, RegisterEvent, TimerEvent, EventInfo, Mute, Reset, Delay, Interval, SaveScene, SetGlobal, ApplyTopoOp, FreezeModeling.