Autodesk 3ds Max Maxscript: Scrolling in a Rollout?

MrQuetch

Hello.

I'm creating a rollout that contains more buttons than can be seen within the actual size of the rollout. Currently, I have two buttons (up and down buttons) on the right side of the rollout that retain their position, while the buttons on the left move up and down depending on what buttons were pressed on the right. The scrolling works for the most part. I'm moving the position on the y-axis of all the buttons that I want to move. However, as I continue to scroll up and down, the buttons start overlapping each other - this is not what I want. How can I make it so the buttons stay equally spaced apart from each other? I've tried different things, and none of them have worked.

I have already tried the follow:

this_button.pos.y += scroll_amount
this_button.pos.y = this_button.pos.y + scroll_amount

The worst case scenario may be that I have to manually set the positions for the buttons each time they are scrolled. But, I would like to know if this can be fixed more easily.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Pac_187

A screenshot of the current UI would help to better understand what you are trying to approach.

Right now it sounds like something which is pretty nasty to solve with maxscript. UIs created with maxscript are static and don't really scale with the window they are hosted in.

Incase you are developing for 3dsMax 2018 and upwards, I would recommend you take a look into UI design using Python (PySide2), which allows you to use the QT framework, it's modern and scaleable, but harder to learn.

monster

MaxScript isn't really suited for creating dynamic UIs.

May I suggest putting your permanent buttons in the rollout and the scrolling options in a subRollout? I made this using a subrollout to hide the less common options.

MrQuetch

monster said:

MaxScript isn't really suited for creating dynamic UIs.

May I suggest putting your permanent buttons in the rollout and the scrolling options in a subRollout? I made this using a subrollout to hide the less common options.

I was beginning to wonder if that was the case or not. I like the idea of the subRollouts. May I ask how you created the subRollout to get me started? I'll also Google a search for the subRollouts and see what else I can learn from them.

Thanks again, monster.

monster

There's an example script here: 
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2015/ENU/?guid=__files_GUID_CDE5B06D_4BB4_4DEA_96C1_6BAB98709F09_htm

One thing I did make dynamic is the parent's rollout height. It changes when the subRollout is closed or opened.

MrQuetch

monster said:

There's an example script here: 
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2015/ENU/?guid=__files_GUID_CDE5B06D_4BB4_4DEA_96C1_6BAB98709F09_htm

One thing I did make dynamic is the parent's rollout height. It changes when the subRollout is closed or opened.

 Thank you, monster. I will look at this, and get back to you if I have any other problems.