Questions about Perform Mode

Beginners
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Hi,

Several newbie questions about the Perform Mode:

  • When entering in Perform Mode, is there a re-initialization of anything? Is the animation restarted at 0?

  • Is there a way to know in code that we enter, we are and we leave the Perform Mode, so that we can generate special events at those times?

Thanks a lot

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No, nothing is reinitialized or reset when you enter perform mode. It’s just opening a different window with different settings and putting content into that.

There is no script callbacks for that right now. However entering perform mode with F1 is simply a script that’s executed, so you can customize that script however you want.

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I am not accustomed to macros yet but as far as I understand them they are local, aren’t they? In other words if I modify the F1 macro and I share my .toe or .tox the new behavior will very likely not be shared.

How can I be sure that whenever a project is performed a given script is activated?
It may be nice to have callbacks for that state, maybe.

Beside, when I right click on the F1 macro in the Macros Editor and I choose Edit Macro in Text Editor, nothing happens.
I use Notepad++ for text editing the DATs and it works great, but in this case it appears the script is not opened.

Thank you.

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The macros will be saved in the .toe file, so they will work when you share the file.

It’s a little messy right now in 088, since macros are still only tscript and we haven’t added a way to directly control hotkeys in Python yet.
What you can do is add a new Root macro for F1 and have it run a Python script run /myscript . Don’t try to edit the Built-In macro, you can’t do that. The Root one will take precedence though.

And in that script you can have python code that does whatever you want.

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Thank you very much.
I am still on 077 now but good to know for the future :wink:

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Ah, in that case you can have your custom macro run a tscript script then.