ACT Python or JS: How to get the view objects (managed views) and get their names?

Matthias

Am I missing something or are there still basic capabilities of accessing the views by scripting missing?

mvm = ExtAPI.Graphics.ModelViewManager

I can e. g. get the number of views by

mvm.NumberOfViews

but how to get the objects? And how to get their names?

A straight forward implementation would in my opinion allow something like

my_views = ExtAPI.DataModel.GetObjectsByType(DataModelObjectCategory.View)

for my_view in my_views:
print(my_view.name)

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Eric Stamper

There might be a better way than this, but if you write out the views, you can read the xml file and get this information. E.g.:

def GetViews():
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import wbjn
import os
UFD = wbjn.ExecuteCommand(ExtAPI,"returnValue(GetUserFilesDirectory())")
viewMgr=ExtAPI.Graphics.ModelViewManager
#Export and read xml to find names
xmlFile=os.path.join(UFD,"PicturesViews.xml")
viewMgr.ExportModelViews(xmlFile)
Doc = ET.parse(xmlFile)
Root = Doc.getroot()
viewMgrNames={}
for i,XmlNode in enumerate(list(Root)):
if XmlNode.tag=="ModelView":
viewMgrNames[XmlNode.attrib['Name']]=i
return viewMgrNames

Apply a view by name to the selected tree object

treeObj = Tree.FirstActiveObject
viewName = 'View1'

ViewNames = GetViews()
viewMgr = ExtAPI.Graphics.ModelViewManager

if viewName in ViewNames:
viewMgr.ApplyModelView(ViewNames[viewName])

Matthias

Thanks for your effort Eric. I will try out your workaround.

Although I still hope, that there is a simpler and shorter solution.