Scripting: Importing plain text file or CSV

lucky101man

Preamble:
Hello DAZ Community!
I just started using DAZ Studio about a week ago. Last night I started looking at the scripting IDE and discovered to my delight that it's based on the same spec as Adobe Extendscript, which I have some experience using for After Effects. My main focus is using scripting as a means of content creation, importing key frames etc. I would like to do the same in DAZ. It looks like it should be possible, but I'm not exactly sure about the ImportMgr as it seems there is a different importer class for different acceptable file types. For example CBvhIn for .bvh, DzCOLLADAImporter for dae files etc. The list of importer types from "Importer_Settings.dsa" on
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/start
there's no plain text import as a class.

My Question:
Can I import (or parse) a pain text file or CSV, read it line by line and take these values and apply them to things like, X translate on a camera at frame 50 (or whatever).

This is how I would do it in extend script, but the 'File' Class doesn't exist in DAZ.
var aTextFile = File.openDialog ( 'Select a text file to import:', '*.*', false ) ;
Then I would read out of aTextFile as an array.

Looking at "Silent_OBJ_Importer.dsa" it appears FileDialog.doFileDialog() is what I need to use but it seems this takes arguments to describe the importer type and settings for import. So what importer type and settings would I use to import plain text or CSV?

Work Around:
The reason I want a plain text or CSV file is that I like plain text as a format. I hope to use PDE to generate text files for whatever I need and then run a script in DAZ Script IDE to import keyframes to the desired object.
Alternatively, I can imagine using BVH files to import 'well formatted' instructions to the timeline of a Genesis (as bvh files seem to need a skeleton - fair enough) and then use the script to transfer the keyframes from genesis to eg. a camera. I can Imagine this would work, but it would be nice to avoid doing something like that.

Thanks for reading, looking forward to response.

Richard Haseltine

Yes, you can do that with DzFile{

file = new DzFile( fileName );
if ( file.open( file.ReadOnly ) ) {
     while ( ! file.eof() ) {
          lineOfFile = file.readLine();
          // Do stuff
     }
     file.close();
}

lucky101man

Excellent. Thank you!

This works great. Prompts for an 'all files' type and prints each line of the selected file to the console.

{
var sPath = FileDialog.doFileDialog(true);
print(sPath);

file = new DzFile( sPath );
if ( file.open( file.ReadOnly ) ) {
while ( ! file.eof() ) {
lineOfFile = file.readLine();
print(lineOfFile);
}
file.close();
}
}