MovieTOPin file path dialog Python equivalent

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looking for Python equivalent to pressing the ‘plus sign’ and opening file path/file explorer dialog.

I want to press a button on GUI and open Movie file dialog, rather than a specific movie

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ui.chooseFile does the trick :slight_smile:

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thanks . my Python is rusty. I don’t see how to specify this to object ‘moviefilein1’, for example.

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The trick here is that you’d use a button to run the script

ui.ChooseFile()

What you get back is the path to the file you’ve chosen - so you have to do a little more legwork.

That might look like a panel execute connected to a button COMP. On state change:

filePath = ui.chooseFile()
op('someMoviefileinTOP').par.file = filePath

This would pop open a dialogue to choose a file, and then put that file path into the file par of the movie file in TOP.

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