Manager and Facades

Managers are helper classes providing few basic methods for loading and saving kiko files. The constructor requires an argument a app facade inheriting from the BaseFacade defined in kiko/apps/basefacade.py.

Each app facade provide static methods for performing certain basics tasks, such as setting key frames, getting selected objects, etc.

If a developer wishes to support another DCC, he/she will have to inherit the BaseFacade and populate each static method.

Inside the facade a naming convention exists for arguments:

• node_name: the name of an app node
• node_obj: an app internal object representing the node (i.e. in Maya we use OpenMaya.MObject)
• channel_name: the name of an app node channel
• channel_obj: the app internal object representing the node (i.e. in Maya we use OpenMaya.MPlug)
• key_framable_channel_obj: the app internal object representing an animation curve (i.e. in Maya we use OpenMayaAnim.MFnAnimCurve)