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I’m trying to change what Variable a Variable node is referencing using a custom script and the “WDNodeSetParam” script

Here is my problem, if I have a Variable called “Hello” with the current value of “World”, and I use the "WDNodeSetParam,NodeID,ParamID,Value” script to try and reassign what variable the node is referencing, instead of actually getting the variable there, I get the current Value stored in the variable. So if I used “WDNodeSetParam,1,1,Hello”, then The Variable node 1, would have the value of “world” stored in Peram 1, rather then my variable.

Is there a different script I should be using, or is there some way to escape the variable?

Thanks in advance,

Alex Bright

Hello Alex,

there currently is no way of "escaping a variable name". Literals (plain) are not distinguishable from variable names. That is one drawback of the way the Widget Designer makes things easy for the user.

I can think of two workarounds to solve this (I have not tested any of them as I am not at the office right now):

1. Create another variable (for example hello_var) with the value "hello". So when using the script with hello_var it will resolves to actual "hello" variable name.
2. Write the variable name in hex, you can use this tool to convert it:Textconverter tool You should get something like [h68h65h6Ch6Ch6F]. Try using this as the variable name

Regards
Dennis

Option1 works, creating a proxy variable does in fact insert the correct text.

Option2 (while I like it) does not work. It inserts the actual text "[h68h65h6Ch6Ch6F]" rather then hello... Which I found surprising.

I'm talking about 60 variables, so this creating these proxy variables isn't necessarily the answer I wanted to hear.

If you can think of anything else, please let me know.

Thank you!
Alex

Markus from tech support had the answer using Node Commands.

The following script will insert the the value "hello" into into index 1 of node 1, without any of it's context.

node1.1@hello