Refresh mask

[françois leroy]

Hi!

My plugin (effect) acts like an AEGP and performs Mask modification.

Everything works fine, but AE still shows the Mask before modification unless I deselect the mask... Is there a way to force refresh?

Note, I can't force "deselect" then "reselect", cos' the Mask computation needs the selection to be stable...

Thanx in advance,

François

[shachar carmi]

yo leroy! ssup?

i don't know for sure, but you can try:

suites.AdvAppSuite2()->PF_RefreshAllWindows();

a more localized version would be:

out_data->out_flags |= PF_OutFlag_REFRESH_UI;

if both don't do the trick, we'll try to conjure something up...

[françois leroy]

Hi Shachar!

As you can see, I'm still torturing AE's masks...

Unfortunately, both RefreshAllWindows() and REFRESH_UI give no result.

The hard stuff is I'm checking wich vertex is selected to transform the mask, so I can't mess with selection.

Do you think Drawbot can help?

Thanx,

François

[françois leroy]

Oh! It seems it happens only with CS5!

May be we don't need to call the devil... just update AE!

Cheers,

François

[shachar carmi]

everyone knows masks are evil and deserve to be tortured.

well, if youdon't care that much about cs5 behavior, then we can let this issue go.

if you do... we'll think of something... (already have an idea...)

[françois leroy]

If you already have an idea, then I'm curious!

You're right, they deserve to be tortured even in CS5...

[shachar carmi]

here goes:

right after changing your mask, you need to re-render, right?

so through ExecuteScript, run this code:

var comp = app.project.activeItem;

var restore = comp.renderer;

comp.renderer = "ADBE Standard 3d";

comp.renderer = restore;

this will change the rendering plug-in to "standard 3d" (which is not available in the menu), and back to whaever the user has set.

t6he drawing of the comp UI, is dependant on the rendering plug-in (not the same plug-in, but they are dependent). perhaps this would force a re-rendering of the mask representation.

not perfect, but that;s what i could think of off of the top of my head.

p.s.

if you can read the mask selection, you can wirte it as well. no?

(in reference to you not wanting to deselect and reseelct the mask)

[françois leroy]

That was twisted enough to work.. but it doesn't.

And you're right, I can write selection, but when I do so, the selection switches from Mask vertex to layer then back to my new selection.

So , when I drag a Vertex, My Vertex is deselected, my Layer dragged, and then my Vertex is reselected... all this during the render call!

I think this is too much cheating. I'd probably better make a fake Mask with DrawBot. May be it's not worth it just for CS5...

Thanx Shachar!

François

[shachar carmi]

well, it was fun while it lasted...

i'll try to think of another hack.