Looking at the Vegas Scripting API, I didn't know whether CustomData could do something like I needed?

I was wondering whether something like this might work:-

Object myObj = new { firstName = "Richard", lastName = "Bushell" };

Guid myGuid = new Guid("1BAA3239-B9A6-4A7A-859F-A37E3A0BD6A7");   // random unique GUID

vegas.Project.CustomData.SetObject(myGuid, myObj);

Would this SAVE the data object within the .veg  Vegas Project file???

then within another script, even after the project was re-opened later:-

Guid myGuid = new Guid("1BAA3239-B9A6-4A7A-859F-A37E3A0BD6A7");   // same as above

Object readObj = vegas.Project.CustomData.GetObject(myGuid);

if (readObj.firstName == "Richard") MessageBox.Show("Success!");

I haven't tried this, but wondered whether CustomData works like above? Never used it, and only just looking at Vegas Scripting API for the first time, plus C# isn't that familiar to me as I know Javascript better. But would something like that work?

First script:

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;
using System;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("PropName", "Some value");
    }
}

Second script:

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;
using System;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        var s = (string) AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData("PropName");
        vegas.ShowError(s);
    }
}

CustomData stores the data inside the project

Thanks @altarvic

I presume ShowError is not relevant at all in terms of functionality, and this could equally have been MessageBox, and was just used for the purposes of this example? Or did we need error-checking in this usage case for some reason? Also, I assume CurrentDomain data dies with Vegas being closed?

Also, is my draft code for Project.CustomData the correct way to implement CustomData in terms of syntax if we did want to keep the data between re-opening the project, and does this get saved within the .veg file itself?

I used the built-in ShowError method just to display a string.

Storing data in the application domain is not permanent. It can be used as a container for the session variables. Use files if you want the data saved between program launches.

Yes, CustomData allows you to save data in .veg files

Thanks, perfectly clear now.

Is my CustomData pseudo-code above the correct syntax?

Your code looks good to me, but I did not write .js scripts for a long time. You can try to run it in Vegas - it does support .js scripts (files must have .js extension)

That code snippet is actually my attempt C#

Does it look right in C# to you, as I'm not so sure of the syntax and types etc.

Just tried it but Vegas throws a about 50 lines of Exception text.

My code to write the Custom Data was as follows:-

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Object myObj = new { firstName = "Richard", lastName = "Bushell" };
        Guid myGuid = new Guid("1BAA3239-B9A6-4A7A-859F-A37E3A0BD6A7");
        vegas.Project.CustomData.SetObject(myGuid, myObj);
    }
}

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And the first 10% of the Exception Popup says:

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Type '<>f__AnonymousType0`2[[System.String, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[System.String, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]]' in Assembly 'qlm2ttoh, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' is not marked as serializable.

Any ideas what's wrong with the code please?

Anonymous types Object myObj = new { firstName = "Richard", lastName = "Bushell" }; won't work. You need to use serializable classes.  Try this code:

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;
using System;

[Serializable]
public class MyObject
{
  public string firstName;
  public string lastName;
}

public class EntryPoint
{
    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {
        Object myObj = new MyObject { firstName = "Richard", lastName = "Bushell" };
        Guid myGuid = new Guid("1BAA3239-B9A6-4A7A-859F-A37E3A0BD6A7");
        vegas.Project.CustomData.SetObject(myGuid, myObj);
    }
}

Thanks, that now writes perfectly, at least I think it does as I get no exceptions now.

But now I can't get my 'read script' to read the data. I have tried variations of the below, but more errors:-

using ScriptPortal.Vegas;
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

[Serializable]
public class MyObject
{
  public string firstName;
  public string lastName;
}

public class EntryPoint
{

    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)
    {

        Guid myGuid = new Guid("1BAA3239-B9A6-4A7A-859F-A37E3A0BD6A7");   // this is the SAME GUID as before
        Object fetchedObj = vegas.Project.CustomData.GetObject(myGuid);
        if (fetchedObj.firstName == "Richard") MessageBox.Show(vegas.MainWindow, "Success", "Information", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
    
    }
}

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I have tried variations of types for fetchedObj, e.g.

Object fetchedObj = vegas...

MyObject fetchedObj = vegas...

MyObject fetchedObj = (MyObject) vegas...

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Sorry, just can't work out what it's expecting and how to correctly handle this???