Houdini VEX Manager 1.0

Overview

The VEX Manager is a user-friendly tool for managing and editing VEX expressions while also storing notes within Houdini. It simplifies loading, creating, editing, and organizing VEX expressions, making it essential for artists working with VEX.

Key Features

• User-Friendly Interface: Clean, intuitive layout for easy access to VEX code and note taking.

• Load/Create VEX Document: Easily load existing scripts or create new ones.

• Categories/Groups: Organize VEX snippets into custom folders or categories.

• Add/Move Remove: Move your snippets around, into and out of folders.

• Search Functionality: Quick searching through VEX snippets by keywords.

• Save: Save changes to a snippet or save a new snippet by simply clicking away from any selection and then pressing save,
  your input VEX and title will now be saved to file.

• Edit: Safely update your VEX or VEX name and press edit to store.

• Delete: Removes code snippets entirely.

• Apply: Pressing the apply button appends your code to the end of your wrangles vex snippet without replacing any code to avoid accidents.

• Rename: Double click on your code to rename and press enter.

• Version Control: Create and manage multiple versions of your VEX code using the slider and Store button.

• Customization: Customize code colors and increase text scale for readability.

• Scalable UI: Adaptable UI for screens of all sizes.

• Preset Management: Reads and manages current vexressions.txt presets.

Other ways to use this script:

• Notes, references, task list... and more: This tool not only saves your snippets but allows you to save any notes, references or other ideas you have to file, using this function in the same way you could have a reference list of colours, some notes on a project or anything else and then easily organize these notes into folder all inside the Vex Code Manager, the way you use it is up to you!

Shortcuts

• CTRL + G: Creates group from selection

• ENTER: Saves code/group name

• DELETE: Deletes folder selection (contents is moved out of folder)

• Double Click: Rename selection

Non-Destructive Workflow

• Folder Management: The folder structure is saved separately to ensure that your VEX code is never affected. The path to the folder structure is:

      C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\houdiniXX.X\vexpressions_folders.txt

• Safe Interactions: The VEX code is read from:

      C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\houdiniXX.X\vexpressions.txt