Hey all. Bit silly perhaps, but trying to make a shelf tool that toggles between Auto Update and Manual cook modes, and then changes UI color schemes to clearly show when you're in Manual mode, to avoid user error like when locking a camera.
To work faster with a shortcut in scenes that autocook on any selection, like with Polyreduce or sims.

Below is just the color scheme part. Trying to use a method that sets a custom color scheme file inside the houdini.pref file under $HOME/Houdini20.0/ using 'hou.setPreference'
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/setPreference.html [www.sidefx.com]
(Since setting the default colors.scheme pref doesn't seem to change, I tried adding it as a custom pref, but can't tell from documentation if that would even overrule the default, or just creates a new custom pref completely unrelated to it)

The UI file is called 'UIManual.hcs' (labeled Houdini Manual) located under $HOME/Houdini20.0/config as well as the Houdini install config folder just in case.

While it sets the houdini.pref file to custom.colors.scheme correctly, for some reason it just won't update the Houdini UI.

Any idea, or perhaps a better approach?
I have limited coding experience by the way, and this is my first Python.

Hi,

I was using viewport outline like this for camera lock but it can also be purposed for the cooking mode. I think something more subtle might work better for this since it's a very common workflow. I would likely outline only the cooking mode button itself, might be less distracting.



More ideas here:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/71012/?page=1 [www.sidefx.com]

I have submitted a RFE for this(#145610), currently there is no way to change the UI color scheme through python

animatrix_
Hi,

I was using viewport outline like this for camera lock but it can also be purposed for the cooking mode. I think something more subtle might work better for this since it's a very common workflow. I would likely outline only the cooking mode button itself, might be less distracting.

More ideas here:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/71012/?page=1 [www.sidefx.com]

Nice, I'll have a look at the link. Thanks.
Currently just made a colour adjustment to the network box which seems OK, but could be more subtle heh

AslakKS
I have submitted a RFE for this(#145610), currently there is no way to change the UI color scheme through python

I thought that might be the case. Thanks!
Wish I could upvote your RFE

Quite sure you can by submitting your own RFE and referencing the RFE number I included in my post

These functions were added in 20.5.203 that might help:

Added HOM UI methods to reload color scheme and get current color scheme.

currentColorScheme()
Return the currently applied Houdini color scheme name.

reloadColorScheme()
Reloads all Houdini UI color settings from the configuration files (by default, in
$HFS/houdini/config and $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/ houdini/config).