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GUI Question - Color Tabs, etc?

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HM_2020: Member; 43 posts; Joined: 8月 2013; Offline

2018年8月21日 7:48

Is it possible to do this any way in Houdini?

Would be nice to have the ability to color code tabs as you see fit?

Cheers!

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Alexey Vanzhula: Member; 538 posts; Joined: 12月 2006; Offline

2018年8月21日 9:53

It is not possible

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malexander: スタッフ; 5212 posts; Joined: 7月 2005; Offline

2018年8月21日 10:40

You can turn on “Color pane headers with Network Contents” to shade the pane tab itself, but you can't specify the color, nor does it color the entire pane. Edit > Prefs > General UI.


tamte: Member; 8839 posts; Joined: 7月 2007; Offline

2018年8月21日 11:09

this is a great idea, I wouldn't mind a possibility to slightly tint tabs of an asset, could make complex assets like rigs more readable

Edited by tamte - 2018年8月21日 11:09:16

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toonafish: Member; 475 posts; Joined: 3月 2014; Offline

2021年9月3日 7:36

Yes, please !

I've been looking for something like this for a long time. At least make it possible to highlight selected TAB's. It's so hard to see what TAB's are currently opened. There's only this tiny little single pixel line that is highlighted.

The Houdini GUI could really use some attention, it feels like I traveled 20 years back in time.

R.


animatrix_: Member; 4731 posts; Joined: 2月 2012; Offline

2021年9月4日 2:46

Hi,

You could achieve (hack) this using Qt, by getting a Qt handle to the parameters pane and then either draw an outline or a transparent overlay that's pass-through to keyboard and mouse inputs so you can click through as if it didn't exist. You would define your own set of colors by specifying operator type -> tab name, etc.

It wouldn't be very easy though.

Here is a similar example that creates an outline for a locked camera that only shows up if the current view is locked which is much easier to create of course.

SESI's Qt integration opens up a lot of doors!

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Andr: Member; 899 posts; Joined: 2月 2016; Offline

2021年9月14日 5:54

It would be very useful, do you have an RFE number for this? I'd like support it.

Also, in this regard, I think it would be very helpful to have custom colors for the slider of the parameters. (and be able to set the with python)

Imagine a slider for a float parm that goes from white to black.
Or if you want to implement a custom cache manager, you could set the slider color green for cached data, and red data to cook.

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Soothsayer: Member; 874 posts; Joined: 10月 2008; Offline

2021年10月1日 9:14

Make that a complete Houdini window colorability! It sounds like a joke but it would be genuinely helpful. I've more than once had several shots open only to work on the wrong one. Or open an old file to check something and then close the wrong one. Or killing the wrong houdini session. I'd be nice to differentiate between them more easily. I know we can read the file name at the top but when there's something like show/dep/subdep/user/seq/shot/folder/folder/yourstarsign/type/version/showname_seq_shot_dep_elem_version_product.hip it gets confusing quickly

Oh, and with a pid too!

Edited by Soothsayer - 2021年10月1日 09:14:33

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vinyvince: Member; 275 posts; Joined: 9月 2012; Offline

2022年4月12日 18:39

tamte
this is a great idea, I wouldn't mind a possibility to slightly tint tabs of an asset, could make complex assets like rigs more readable

I second that

Vincent Thomas (VFX and Art since 1998)
Senior Env and Lighting artist & Houdini generalist & Creative Concepts
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timurproko: Member; 19 posts; Joined: 3月 2022; Offline

2024年5月16日 9:02

@animatrix_ could you kindly provide the code snippet for drawing a line? I aim to create a script that marks the locked pane by drawing a line, as I usually hide Network Controls. The current code I'm using draws a line on top of the pane, but it occasionally draws it outside the pane and onto the Main Application Window, rather than where I intend it to be.

def set_border_for_cursor_panetab(value, color):
    app = qtw.QApplication.instance()
    cursor_widget = app.widgetAt(qtg.QCursor.pos())
    cursor_widget_parent = cursor_widget.parent()
    if value:
        margin = hou.ui.scaledSize(2)
        cursor_widget_parent.setContentsMargins(0, margin, 0, 0)
        cursor_widget_parent.setStyleSheet("QWidget { background: %s; }" % color)
    else:
        cursor_widget_parent.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        cursor_widget_parent.setStyleSheet("")

Edited by timurproko - 2024年5月16日 09:02:47


animatrix_: Member; 4731 posts; Joined: 2月 2012; Offline

2024年6月29日 23:46

timurproko
@animatrix_ could you kindly provide the code snippet for drawing a line? I aim to create a script that marks the locked pane by drawing a line, as I usually hide Network Controls. The current code I'm using draws a line on top of the pane, but it occasionally draws it outside the pane and onto the Main Application Window, rather than where I intend it to be.
def set_border_for_cursor_panetab(value, color):
    app = qtw.QApplication.instance()
    cursor_widget = app.widgetAt(qtg.QCursor.pos())
    cursor_widget_parent = cursor_widget.parent()
    if value:
        margin = hou.ui.scaledSize(2)
        cursor_widget_parent.setContentsMargins(0, margin, 0, 0)
        cursor_widget_parent.setStyleSheet("QWidget { background: %s; }" % color)
    else:
        cursor_widget_parent.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        cursor_widget_parent.setStyleSheet("")

I do it like this:

class ViewportOutlineWidget(QtWidgets.QWidget):

    thickness = 0
    def __init__(self, thicknessValue=2):
        QtWidgets.QWidget.__init__(self, hou.qt.mainWindow(), QtGui.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint)
        

        self.thickness = thicknessValue
        self.setParent(hou.qt.floatingPanelWindow(None), QtGui.Qt.Window)
        self.update()

        p = self.palette()
        p.setColor(QtGui.QPalette.Window, QtGui.Qt.red)
        self.setPalette(p)


    def update(self):
        window = getSessionVariable("sceneViewerQtONE")
        s = window.size()
        p = window.mapToGlobal(QtCore.QPoint(0, 0))
        w = s.width()
        h = s.height()

        self.setGeometry(p.x(), p.y(), w, h)

        all = QtGui.QRegion(0, 0, w, h)
        inside = QtGui.QRegion(self.thickness, self.thickness, w - 2 * self.thickness, h - 2 * self.thickness)
        self.setMask(all.subtracted(inside))

So it's not lines but a hollowed out rectangle

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hMonkey: Member; 112 posts; Joined: 10月 2018; Offline

2024年9月16日 10:14

This also works.

F1 -> Viewport color editor -> load, then edit colors

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