Hi!

I'm generating my own HDA with python and everything works fine, except I can't see it in context menu. Easy to fix by removing HDA_TABLE_AND_NAME and set VOP checkbox in my case.

But how to do this with python automatically during HDA creation?
It looks like there is a tool inside HDA definition, which I suppose to be able to access and modify, but can't find a way.

if you check the output of

hou.Node("/obj/yourHDA").asCode()

You might find some clues of what to set with python.

Thank you, but unfortunately this doesn't help.
asCode() generates code to spawn HDA with parameters set. Therefore it means that context tool I`m looking in is i HDA definition

The HDA definition is also in there if I'm not mistaken. Maybe you have to pass some extra arguments but even the UI, extra scripts etc are/should be all there in the output.

And vaguely remember something about the HDA needing to be in unlock for this..

I checked API and found nothing that might help. Actually it looks like a bug or someone forgot to add API connection for this thing. I could add my HDA to the shelf and spawn it from here, for sure, but this is not an option, since I have a lot of HDAs.

Need a old_school power here

This post might be helpful as things don't seem to have changed and any creation of HDAs via Python does not generate the default tool by default: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/85634/ [www.sidefx.com]

To basically change things after the fact you're pretty much forced to take the contents of the Tools.shelf section, parse the XML into a structure you can manipulate, add/modify whatever settings you want, then set the resulting data back to the definition.

This looks like exactly the thing I need. I will give it a try, thank you!

Okay, I made it work!
First here is the documentation
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini20.0/shelf/config_file [www.sidefx.com]

Graham, I then took your code, and modified this part, by adding <contextNetType>VOP</contextNetType>.


Also for someone looking for the topic, there is relevant discussion
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/40864/?page=1#post-183147 [www.sidefx.com]

Thank you for help.