[solved] VSE API: .setIpo() on Sequence Strip objects, anyone??

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How do I link an ipocurve/datablock to an effect strip?? I am tapping in darkness here. I try to link an ipocurve to an effect strip in the video sequence editor via API:


start = 500
track = 4
seq_data = (11, videobase, overlay)
effectstrip = seq.new(seq_data, start, track)

# create an ipocurve and link it to alphaover strip
effectipo = Ipo.New("Sequence","SeqIpo")
effectpo[Ipo.MA_R] = (5,.5)

The above works halfway: I end up with a datablock that has the correct ipocurve in it but I do not know how to link it to the effectstrip! All options, like
effectstrip.ipo(effectipo)
effectstrip.setIpo(effectipo)
effectstrip.link(effectipo)

throw an “object has no attribute xyz” error. So I need the API equivalent of manually selecting the ipo datablock in the Datablock browser window at the bottom of IPO-Curve Editor. Anyone?

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I can’t believe that nobody has a clue… While waiting for answers, I browsed around the sceneSequence code again: it has setIpo() getIpo() functions, but somehow I am unable to call it. As said, after creating a Sequence Strip with seq.new, the resulting object neither has the .ipo(), .setIpo() or getIpo() function/attribute. Too much of a python noob I guess…

Update:
Solved! Being indeed too much of a python noob, I tried to set the attribute’s value the wrong way! Instead of doing

stripnameobj.ipo(ipocurveobj)

one need to do this

stripnameobj.ipo = ipocurveobj

(lesson learned)