[3ds Max] - viewport status display Maxscript Help!

dg3duy

I need help, I can not draw behind each text a black rectangle and that this rectangle when maximizing or adjusting the screen is kept next to the text.

I don't understand how to use Viewport Drawing Methods to make the black rectangular drawing stay behind the text

macroScript StatisticsInfo

category:"DG3Duy" 

toolTip:"StatisticsInfo" 

buttonText:"StatisticsInfo"

(

fn CoordStatistics =

(

try (MaterialName =  getRefCoordSys() ) catch(MaterialName = "")

GW.hText [GW.GetWinSizeX()*0.45,30,0] MaterialName color:yellow

gw.updateScreen()

(

fn playAndStopAnimation =

(

if isAnimPlaying() != true do

forcecompleteRedraw doDisabled:true

)

playAndStopAnimation()

)

)

unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback CoordStatistics

registerRedrawViewsCallback CoordStatistics

CoordStatistics ()

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fn TransformationsStatistics =

(

try (MaterialName =  toolMode.commandmode) catch(MaterialName = "")

GW.hText [GW.GetWinSizeX()*0.35,30,0] MaterialName color:yellow

gw.updateScreen()

)

unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback TransformationsStatistics

registerRedrawViewsCallback TransformationsStatistics

TransformationsStatistics ()

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fn SubselectionStatistics =

(

try (MaterialName =  $.GetEPolySelLevel()) catch(MaterialName = "")

GW.hText [GW.GetWinSizeX()*0.55,30,0] MaterialName color:yellow

gw.updateScreen()

)

unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback SubselectionStatistics

registerRedrawViewsCallback SubselectionStatistics

SubselectionStatistics ()

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fn NameselectionStatistics =

(

try (MaterialName =  objName = selection[1].name) catch(MaterialName = "")

GW.hText [GW.GetWinSizeX()*0.65,30,0] MaterialName color:yellow

gw.updateScreen()

)

unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback NameselectionStatistics

registerRedrawViewsCallback NameselectionStatistics

NameselectionStatistics ()

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fn meshStatistics =

if(classof (modPanel.getCurrentObject()) == Editable_Mesh) Then

(

SOLevelName = case SubObjectLevel of

(

    0: #Object

    1: #Vertex

    2: #Edge

    3: #face 

4: #Polygon

5: #Element

)

try (SOLevelName = SubObjectLevel() ) catch(MaterialName = "")

GW.hText [GW.GetWinSizeX()*0.55,30,0] SOLevelName color:yellow

gw.updateScreen()

)

unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback meshStatistics

registerRedrawViewsCallback meshStatistics

meshStatistics ()

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)

PolyHertz

I don't know the answer to your question, but I wrote a similar script to yours a while ago that may give you some ideas how to make your code more compact:

fn vpSelStats_fn = (
    vpWidth = gw.getWinSizeX()

    selType = try(($.baseObject) as string)catch("n/a")
    SelName = try(($.name) as string)catch("n/a")
    selMod = try (((modpanel.getCurrentObject()).name) as string)catch("n/a") --Only works if Modifier Tab is active.
    selSub = try (subobjectLevel as string)catch("n/a")

    allInfo = ("Type: " + selType + "  |  ") + ("Name: " + SelName + "  |  ") + ("Modifier: " + selMod + "  |  ") + ("Sub Object Level: " + selSub)
    viewCenterX = (vpWidth / 2) - (((gw.getTextExtent allInfo).x) / 2)

    gw.setTransform (Matrix3 1)
    gw.wtext [viewCenterX,30,0] allInfo color:Yellow
    gw.UpdateScreen()
)

if (vpSelStatsState == undefined or vpSelStatsState == "Off") then (
    registerRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
    global vpSelStatsState = "On"
)
else (
    UnregisterRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
    vpSelStatsState = "Off"
)

redrawViews<br>

dg3duy

PolyHertz said:

I don't know the answer to your question, but I wrote a similar script to yours a while ago that may give you some ideas how to make your code more compact:

fn vpSelStats_fn = (
    vpWidth = gw.getWinSizeX()

    selType = try(($.baseObject) as string)catch("n/a")
    SelName = try(($.name) as string)catch("n/a")
    selMod = try (((modpanel.getCurrentObject()).name) as string)catch("n/a") --Only works if Modifier Tab is active.
    selSub = try (subobjectLevel as string)catch("n/a")

    allInfo = ("Type: " + selType + "  |  ") + ("Name: " + SelName + "  |  ") + ("Modifier: " + selMod + "  |  ") + ("Sub Object Level: " + selSub)
    viewCenterX = (vpWidth / 2) - (((gw.getTextExtent allInfo).x) / 2)

    gw.setTransform (Matrix3 1)
    gw.wtext [viewCenterX,30,0] allInfo color:Yellow
    gw.UpdateScreen()
)

if (vpSelStatsState == undefined or vpSelStatsState == "Off") then (
    registerRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
    global vpSelStatsState = "On"
)
else (
    UnregisterRedrawViewsCallback vpSelStats_fn
    vpSelStatsState = "Off"
)

redrawViews<br>

Woouuu looks great on screen, thanks for the input.

Revel

Awesome @PolyHertz just wondering will it impact viewport performance?

PolyHertz

@Revel Theres a small performance impact but I very much doubt you'd notice it unless your working in an extremely heavy scene where every frame counts. That said, this method does affect performance the more items you draw on screen. If you notice the script I posted above actually draws just one item to the screen which is a compiled string of all the info at once, where as the one dg3duy posted draws each piece of info separately resulting in 4x the performance cost. I did a test a while ago where had the index numbers of all object components floating above them using this method, so thousands of items, and that absolutely destroyed the framerate. But yea, for this script there's not enough being drawn to really matter.

Revel

@PolyHertz cool! thanks for the info man!

dg3duy

This way you can place a box in the background to highlight the text. @PolyHertz  @Revel
Visually it is perfect but at code level I imagine it is very bad

fn drawThis =

(

    boxHW=[400,20]

messageText=#(test)

boxColor = (lightGray=white/4)

TextColor = black

scrSize=getViewSize()-400/2*2

gw.setTransform(Matrix3 1)

for i in messageText do

(

posInScreen=[scrSize.x,scrSize.y]

BoxPosX=(posInScreen.x)/2

BoxPosY=(posInScreen.y)+380/2*2

txtRect = (box2 BoxPosX BoxPosY boxHW.x boxHW.y) --(box2 (pos.x) (pos.y) width height  )

gw.wrect txtRect boxColor

)

gw.enlargeUpdateRect #whole

gw.updateScreen()

)

unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback drawThis

registerRedrawViewsCallback drawThis

drawThis ()

forceCompleteRedraw()