how to get IPO's of a bone?

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Hi,
I’m trying to export the animation of an armature.

In a Pose.PoseBone object there is a method insertKey() but no getKeys().

In an Armature.Bone object there is no attribute .ipo

I’ve searched in the html documentation, and I’ve tried to explore in python with dir(). I have also tried to read other export scripts and to search on google, but with no success, so some help would be appreciated.

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if it’s impossible, please tell me, so that I know that I can stop searching
thanks

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Which version of blender are you working with?

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the blender packaged in my distro is the version 2.49b

I have also downloaded the version 2.5 alpha2, I could use it to export my .blend file too

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As soon as you know you bone name, you can iterate the IPOs and check their users property to find which is used by your bone.

Regards,

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well I understand why I was confused, Object.Object have an ipo property, but bones really don’t, so the link is made with the bone name, but well I still don’t catch, when I iter with

from Blender import Ipo
  for ipo in Ipo.Get():

then users is an int and returns me ‘1’ for every ipo (so it is not a bone index or something like that), and there is nothing like a method ipo.get_users_names so that I could know which bone is the user of it.

i’ll loose all my hairs on this :slight_smile: