OnStart DAT trying unsuccessfully to open a UI pane

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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The goal:

  • give some tasks such as checking licenses/login etc. (which would normally be triggered by /start) to other scripts, since $TOUCH_START_COMMAND is an easy backdoor (and openly documented, in the wiki) which would effectively break any attempt at keeping an application unaccessible to any ill intentioned client.

The attempt:

  • I have a DAT set to On Start. All it does for now it’s always open a UI pane. It doesn’t do it. If upon loading I run it, then the pane opens, but it doesn’t open upon loading the .toe

why?

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I tested this and it works for me. I opened /project1 via controlpanel -o. are there any errors in the console? if not, can you send a simplified file with the problem? you can also put an echo/print statement in the DAT to make sure it is executing, and to determine whether the problem is the Execute DAT or the controlpanel. I also tried the netscope command in case you mean a pane rather than a panel, and had no issues with that either.

Selina

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yeah sorry I just figured it out - my bad - I was about to remove this message!