Experimental:Operator Shortcuts

Experimental - Skipping Glossary There are three ways to give shortcut names to operators in TouchDesigner:

Parent Shortcuts access a higher level component from within that component.

Global OP Shortcuts access a unique component from anywhere in TouchDesigner.

Internal Operator Shortcuts and the related Internal Parameter Shortcuts provide easy access from operators inside a component to other operators inside that same component.

These should not be confused with Keyboard Shortcuts.

Python Shortcut Objects

There are a number of Python objects that facilitate the various operator shortcuts in TouchDesigner. They can be accessed in the global namespace through the Td Module and they can also be accessed relative to operators as members of the OP Class. For detailed usage instructions follow those links. A brief description of the objects themselves is below:

Shortcut - the parent object of all the other shortcut classes.

• OPShortcut - the most commonly used shortcut, accessed through op. Returns an operator (or None if path not found) from a provided path (argument) or Global OP Shortcut (member).
• OPEXShortcut - Works just like OPShortcut but raises an exception when an operator path is not found. Accessed through opex.
• OPsShortcut - Works similarly to OPShortcut but accepts multiple patterns, including wildcards, as arguments and returns a list of operators that match.
• ParentShortcut - Allows access to hierarchical parents of an operator. Returns an operator from a provided number of levels (argument) or Parent Shortcut name (member).
• IOPShortcut - Allows access to Internal Operators as defined in a components parameters. Returns an operator.
• IparShortcut - Allows access to Internal Parameters as defined in a components parameters. Returns a parameter. This is basically the same as IOPShortcut but returns the par member of the operator instead of the operator itself.

Operator shortcuts are Python objects that return operators (or sometimes parameters). These include Parent Shortcuts for accessing a component from within that component, and Global OP Shortcuts that access a unique component from anywhere in TouchDesigner.