Re: Parsing and extracting an xsiaddon with Python

[Martin Saechsinger]

Great Alan,

thank you very much!

Martin

On May 31, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

Hey,

Just wrote a snippet of sample code I thought someone might find educational:

http://darkvertex.com/wp/2012/05/30/parse-xsiaddons-in-python/

I'd reply to the thread about extracting files in xsiaddons but Gmail is still being a jerk. I'm not receiving anything. However, the non-Google archive at http://tinyurl.com/softimagelist seems to indicate that outgoing mail still gets sent, so here's hoping this goes through.

Cheers,

   -- Alan

[Alan Fregtman]

[Alok Gandhi]

Nice one Alan !

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[Martin]

Thanks Alan !

I took the liberty to add a GUI and some minor changes.

If anyone is interested :

https://www.4shared.com/file/SSiUQxWK/ExtractXsiAddon.html

The code is 99.99% from Alan's blog.

M.Yara

[Martin Saechsinger]

Hey Martin,

that is really great! Thanks for making the GUI and adding the folder hierarchy!!

One little thing I discovered is that the actual script files in the addon (e.g. *.py or *.js) have

an additional blank line after each line of code (compared to the installation through

Softimage.)

Cheers,

Martin

[Alan Fregtman]

Do the .dll and other binary files load alright at least?

It's interesting that it would do that with plaintext files.

[Martin Saechsinger]

Hey Alan, 

no - I am afraid it scrambles .dlls and other binaries because of the black line thingy...

Martin

[Alan Fregtman]

Hmmm, I'll investigate later.

[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

Try changing the calls to open(.., "w") to open(...,"wb")

to turn off \n translation

[Alan Fregtman]

Ohhhhhhh, silly me.