create a dir w/out prompting the user

[mobrien]

Hola~

Sorry, I'm new to this world, so this is likely a silly question. I am trying to automate our export process on the farm. I'd like to create a directory:

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tv_writetextfile mkdir '/path/to/dir'

Is there a way to create a directory in george and have it not prompt the user?

Thanks in advance.

MO

[Hironori Takagi]

The prompt does not occur just by executing the tv_WriteTextFile command.
The folder is automatically created without a response.

[Svengali]

Are you using TVPaint release 11???

[Hironori Takagi]

Yes.

I remember one important thing.
If you execute the file operation script immediately after starting TVPaint, a message asking whether to allow file operation appears.
This happens independently of the script. No dialog will appear after the second time.

[Svengali]

One thing you can test... In the Edit > Preferences > Interface page, you can check/uncheck the "George Alert:tv_WriteTextFile - box", an option which I think is version 11 only...

Spoiler : :

When disabled (unchecked) you receive this warning:

George Alert Box in Preferences-Interface.png (5.51 KiB) Viewed 3303 times

"If you deactivate this option, you will no longer be warned
when a script will try to modify files on your computer.
Are you sure you want to contiue?
OK Cancel"

I'm not sure if this will affect the creation-of-a-directory-warning or not when unchecked - but you can test it.

Sven

[mobrien]

Hola~

Yes, using tv paint 11 pro.

I can't get the Preferences -> Interface -> George Alert: tv_WriteTextFile option to be sticky. ie, once I restart tv paint, that setting seems to reset. Even if that worked, it's not a great solution as I'd like to avoid preference settings on the farm.

Just to say it, this is part of an automated process. I'm not totally sure why tv paint requires the user to sign off on a dialog for creating a directory, but exporting layers to files is fine. ie, it's not any file/dir write, it seems to be just this tv_writetextfile command.

Is there a way to fork out to a shell to run mkdir? I am ultimately trying to run tv_projectsavesequence. Is there a way to get that command to create intermediate directories?