BrianK

found it…

in hcommon.pref:
startupHelp := 0;


but that didn't solve the problem for this person for some reason… If anyone's seen that error before, I'd love to know what it's from.

I'm getting some python error when Houdini launches on some of our machines.

The error looks like:

help system: error: cannot import name Punctuation
exception: ImportError
details: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “/home/prisms/builder-new/Nightly9.5/dev/src/houdini/help/houdinihelp/__init__.py”,
line 7, in <module>
# Copyright © 1999 by Secret Labs AB.
File “/home/prisms/builder-new/Nightly9.5/dev/src/houdini/help/houdinihelp/streams.py”,
line 13, in <module>
File
“/home/prisms/builder-new/Nightly9.5/dev/src/houdini/help/houdinihelp/helpfilters.py”,
line 13, in <module>
File “/home/prisms/builder-new/Nightly9.5/dev/src/houdini/help/houdinihelp/coloring.py”,
line 2, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name Punctuation

My quick work-around is to have the user go to a machine without this issue, open houdini, turn off “Load help browser on start,” close Houdini, then go back to their workstation. I would imagine there is a better way. Anyone know how to turn off autoload of help browser? I don't see it in the houdini.pref file, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

Using H9.5.241 on Linux.

Thanks

edward
I don't see how you can do that safely with ANSI strings though. Take for example, "char str; cin >> str". Now what happens if the user types in more than 4 characters? You might not crash of course until the user types in more than 16 characters due to memory alignment but doing so is definitely not safe.

maybe “ANSI string” is not the correct term. I mean…

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <UT/UT_String.h>
using namespace std;
int main() {
UT_String myUT;
string mySTR;
cin >> mySTR;
myUT = mySTR.c_str();
return 0;
}