Attribute dialog

The attribute selection value dialogs ar used to create a button that allows to open the dialog for an attribute selection. The following dialogs can be assigned

Dialog	Description
AttributeSelection	Allow to select all attributes
AttributeSelectionInsert	Allow to select the insert attributes (additional to the default object attributes)
AttributeSelectionProject	Allow to select the project attributes

Clicking the button opens the attribute dialog like

After closing the dialog, the name of the selected attribute is displayed as then button text and the ID is assigned to the parameter.

Syntax

<Parameter>

<Name>AttributeID</Name>

<Text>Attribute</Text>

<Value>0</Value>

<ValueType>Integer</ValueType>

<ValueDialog>AttributeSelection</ValueDialog>

</Parameter>

Optional tags

If the PythonPart should be localized, the following tag must be added

<TextId>1001</TextId>

Sometimes it’s useful to disable or hide the button depending on the value of another parameter. This is achieved by adding additional tags to the parameter or by defining functions in the py-file. See Enable and visible options

The persistent state of the parameter can be changed by adding

<Persistent>…</Persistent>

Example

The implementation of the AttributeSelection value dialog is described in the example AllControls located in

..\etc\Examples\PythonParts\PaletteExamples\AllControls.pyp

..\etc\PythonPartsExampleScripts\PaletteExamples\AllControls.py