XSIBlog

Anything pertaining to user interface issues can be found in this category. This is the layer that allows the user to interact with the application either through screen, mouse, keyboard or any other input method.

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Someone asked me if by having the Qwerty Interaction Model in XSI, XSI was beginning to loose its Design Philosophy. I think the answer is no, XSI’s Design Philosophy is not which keyboard shortcuts you use. The Design Philosophy are items such as workflows based on clusters, having all main features visible in [...]

The settings for the File Browser you get when you select File -> Open are stored in three different places in your Softimage user account folder. (don’t shoot the messenger!)

A binary file called DSModalBrowse . It stores whether you are in List View mode or Thumbnail mode, the column settings for [...]

You’ll find here some nice discoveries I made trying to use wxPython inside XSI. For that I will assume that you, dear Reader, have some knowledge of Python and UIs…

Animal Logic is also kindly giving you an example XSI Plugin that should be a good starting point if you want to implement a wxPython interface in XSI.

I apologize in advance for the technical and boring stuff ahead… it’s the unfortunate price to pay to get nice and shiny UIs!

Let’s take a look at XSI’s new Material Manager.

Figuring out which user preference you have modified in XSI is much easier since the last few releases.
First and foremost, only the user preferences that are different from the factory defaults are saved. This was partly done to allow overriding a user preference with a workgroup user preference file.
They are saved in your user [...]