[Closed] #callback code – Help

There is no such callback.

There are ways to get to something close, but they’re not pretty.

Hi Rotem,
Can you direct me for one way?
DotNet maybe?
:shrug:

This is how I did it in the past:

• Find the location of Backburner.xml. This varies depending on version of 3dsmax and backburner.
• Add a #MainWindowEnabled callback, to catch when the 3dsmax window gets disabled.
• When it does, start a dotnet timer with a short interval.
• When the dotnet timer fires, check if any window has the properties of the backburner submission window, such as if the window text starts with “Network Job Assignment”.
• If you found this window, add a dotnet FileSystemWatcher to watch for changes to Backburner.xml.
• When the dotnet watcher fires, a job was most likely just sent.
• Curse Autodesk for not making this easier.

I will do the last step twice.