Custom GUI, setting values on slaves/jobs

Deadline
1

Hi there,
I am creating a basic GUI to try and make setting machine limits/priorities etc, much easier. And I’m having trouble finding the right way to set the value.

Here is basically what I have so far, for most of the button pressed functions.

[code]def setMachineLimitButtonPressed( *args ):
global scriptDialog

newMachineLimit = scriptDialog.GetValue( "MachineBox" )

getLimit = JobUtils.GetCurrentJobValue(0, "MachineLimit" )[/code]

I have no trouble getting the data, but I can’t figure out how to set it. At first I tried SetcurrentJobValue, but then noticed it has been labeled ‘void’.

I also tried RepositoryUtils.SaveSlaveSettings(name of variable), but I can’t seem to get it to save anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks
mstphn

2

the new value will be taken from the GUI obviously, which is called through ‘newMachineLimit’ for example.

3

It might be easiest to use JobUtils.GetSelectedJobs() to get the list of the actual job objects:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … _Utilities

Then you can set the job properties directly:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … rview/#Job

Finally, you can use RepositoryUtils.SaveJob to commit the changes:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … _Utilities

Note that there are separate functions for getting/setting the machine limit, since a machine limit is actually just a specialized limit group under the hood.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
4

Good stuff, cheers once more Ryan.

5

When I try using JobUtils.GetSelectedJobs(), all I get is the name of the job, and I can’t do anything with it as far as I can see.

I tried something really crude, like this…

newPriorityLimit = scriptDialog.GetValue( "PriorityBox" )

getJob = JobUtils.GetSelectedJobs()
jobPriority = getJob.JobPriority
getJob.JobPriority = (newPriorityLimit)

I know getSelectedJob() takes a tuple.

6

JobUtils.GetSelectedJobs() should return a tuple of job objects, so you’ll need to index it to get a specific job. For example, to work with the first job only, you could do this:

selectedJobs = JobUtils.GetSelectedJobs()
getJob = selectedJobs[0]
jobPriority = getJob.JobPriority
getJob.JobPriority = (newPriorityLimit)

To set the priority for all the selected jobs, you could do this:

selectedJobs = JobUtils.GetSelectedJobs()
for getJob in selectedJobs:
    jobPriority = getJob.JobPriority
    getJob.JobPriority = (newPriorityLimit)

Cheers,

  • Ryan
7

Very good, thanks for your patience.