Demonstrates how to list the kits installed in Modo, and query the version numbers. This mostly is a wrapper for the kit.version command.

kitDumpCommand.py

#python

'''

  Demonstrates how to list the kits installed in Modo, and query the version
  numbers. This mostly is a wrapper for the kit.version command.

'''

import lx
import lxifc
import lxu

SERVER_NAME = "kit.dump"

class KitList:
	def __init__(self):
		self.kits = []

		'''
		  Spawn the kit.version command. SpawnFromString returns the
		  command as a tuple - we care about the third argument which is
		  the command object.
		'''
		command = lx.service.Command().SpawnFromString("kit.version")[2]
		
		'''
		  Query the command for an AttributesUI interface, and read the
		  ValueHints for the first argument - the name argument.
		'''
		attributesUI = lx.object.AttributesUI(command)
		valueHints = attributesUI.UIValueHints(0)

		'''
		  Query the popup for the value hints object - this returns the
		  number of elements in the popup, and the name for each one.
		  We store the name, so we can use it to perform a lookup later.
		'''
		count = valueHints.PopCount()
		for i in range(count):
			self.kits.append(valueHints.PopInternalName(i))

	def Count(self):
		return len(self.kits)

	def Name(self, index):
		if len(self.kits) <= index:
			raise IndexError()

		return self.kits[index]

	def Version(self, index):
		if len(self.kits) <= index:
			raise IndexError()

		return lx.eval("kit.version name:{%s} version:?" % self.kits[index])

class Command(lxu.command.BasicCommand):
	def __init__(self):
		lxu.command.BasicCommand.__init__(self)
	
	def cmd_Flags(self):
		return 0
	
	def basic_Execute(self, msg, flags):
		kits = KitList()
		count = kits.Count()
		for i in range(count):
			print "Name: {} - Version: {}".format(kits.Name(i), kits.Version(i))

lx.bless(Command, SERVER_NAME)