Passing arguments to NX Open python journal from Journal Manager

[onodip]

In the journal manager of NX it is possible enter arguments, which in principle can be passed to the journal.
In a Python journal typically a [tt]main[/tt] function is called. Since the function call is part of the script, I am not sure how NX can pass anything to it. Is there any special variable for the journal manager arguments that can be imported, or can it be somehow accessed from a Session or UFSession object?

I included a simple example, where I would like a message box to pop up with the arguments from the Journal Manager (see the attached picture).

import NXOpen
import NXOpen.UF

def main(arg):
    """Takes a string argument, and shows it in a message box."""
    uf_session = NXOpen.UF.UFSession.GetUFSession()
    message = "The following arguments were passed to my journal:" + arg
    uf_session.Ui.DisplayMessage(message, 1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()  # Somehow the arguments of the journal manager should be passed

 

[gelsonnicoletto]

Hello,

Try this:

import sys
import NXOpen
import NXOpen.UF


def main(arg):
    """Takes a string argument, and shows it in a message box."""
    uf_session = NXOpen.UF.UFSession.GetUFSession()
    message = "The following arguments were passed to my journal:" + arg
    uf_session.Ui.DisplayMessage(message, 1)
if __name__ == '__main__':

    main(sys.argv[0])

Gelson Z. Nicoletto
Eng. Supervisor
Mould Desing
Brazil

 

[onodip]

Thanks @gelsonnicoletto. For me [tt]sys.argv[0][/tt] is the filename, but works perfectly with [tt]sys.argv[1][/tt].

import sys
import NXOpen
import NXOpen.UF


def main(arg):
    """Takes a string argument, and shows it in a message box."""
    uf_session = NXOpen.UF.UFSession.GetUFSession()
    message = "The following arguments were passed to my journal:" + arg
    uf_session.Ui.DisplayMessage(message, 1)
if __name__ == '__main__':

    main(sys.argv[1])

 

[onodip]

So in NX 12 (and I guess later releases) [tt]sys.argv[0][/tt] is the filename and [tt]sys.argv[1][/tt] is the argument string, and in earlier versions [tt]sys.argv[0][/tt] is the argument string.