Background Light toggle

Hi,

I’m adding some custom functionality as part of a customized panel and I would like to toggle the background light in certain scenarios (via the code).

I am able to get it to dark, but not to light again thereafter. I could see that the properties of “view options” - “background color” and “background color 2” change their values. However, I could not see any changes made to the grid.

The code I’m using:

grid = om.getOrCreateContainer('grid')
viewOptions = vis.ViewOptionsItem(self.view)
viewBackgroundLightHandler = self.viewcolors.ViewBackgroundLightHandler(viewOptions, grid, app.getToolsMenuActions()['ActionToggleBackgroundLight'])
viewBackgroundLightHandler.action.trigger()

Could you please assist?

[patmarion]

Great! Yes, anything variable you can access in the Python console in Director should also be available in the globalsDict of that script.

[patmarion]

I assume that the function in your startup.py is called like startup(robotSystem, globals()). So that means that inside the function you can access the viewBackgroundLightHandler as:

viewBackgroundLightHandler = globalsDict['viewBackgroundLightHandler']

And then pass that variable in to the constructor of your panel.