hannesdelbeke / detect-app

Detect which app the python interpreter is running in.⚙️Supports Ansible, AutoCAD, Blender, Calibre, Cinema 4D, Clarisse, Flame, Fusion, Gaffer,Gimp,Houdini, Inkscape, Katana, Krita, Mari, Marmoset, 3ds Max, Maya, Modo, MotionBuilder, Natron, Nuke RV, Revit, Shotgun, Scribus, Softimage, SubstanceDesigner, SubstancePainter, Unreal

detect-app

Detect which app the python interpreter is running in. Useful for cross app scripts

Supports:

Ansible
AutoCAD
Blender
Calibre
Cinema 4D
Clarisse
CryEngine
Flame
FreeCAD
Fusion
Gaffer
Gimp
Houdini
Inkscape
Katana
Krita
Mari
Marmoset
3ds Max
Maya
Modo
MotionBuilder
Natron
Nuke
RV
Revit
Shotgun
Scribus
Softimage
SubstanceDesigner
SubstancePainter
Unreal

Instructions

e.g. prints Blender if run in Blender

import detect_app
app_info = detect_app.detect_app()
print(app_info.id)  # e.g. substance_painter

right now app_info is very simple

• id: str a unique identifier for the app, lowercase, underscores, not start with nr
• action: callable that returns true if run in the app. usually just attempts to import an app specific module
• get_name(): method to return a pretty name.

advanced

env variable DETECT_APP_FORCE_ID can be set to the app id, which will force a specific app to be detected. Useful for testing.

detect-app's Issues

detect app version

detect app version

reference

• ☠️ https://github.com/tpDcc/tp-dcc-core/blob/master/tp/core/dcc.py executables
• ☠️ https://github.com/tpDcc
  did this move? https://github.com/OmniZ3D/tpDcc-core

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• https://github.com/fredrikaverpil/pyvfx-boilerplate

detect headless mode

would be nice if app info contained if app ran in headless mode.
some apps can run in several modes. e.g. mayabatch, maya, mayapy, ...

blender, blender noUI (e.g. for rendering or executing scripts)