Max Script :Simple thing about SliderTime buuut...

Blob

Hello all,
I hope I post in the good place,
I'm a beginer in maxscript and I just can't find how to get the actual frame of the SliderTime. I mean, I can give to the SliderTime a frame, ok no problem BUT not the invers, get the frame of the SliderTime. I'm sure this is somewhere in the MAXScript reference but can't find it !
I'm not totaly new in scripting stuff since I have already do a some actionScript in flash, but this MaxScript reference give me some hard time finding what I need ! : )

Thanks !
Blob

poopipe

i haven't got the reference to hand but you can probably use a callback

Wesley

It's just "sliderTime".

The Flying Monk

As Wesley said, 'sliderTime' will return what frame the slider is on. And assigning it a number sets what frame its on.

Just remember that you can only set the sliderTime to something in the animation range, it defaults to 0-100. So if you try to set the sliderTime to 110 it will actually be 100. That's caused me some trouble recently.

Blob

Haha just "sliderTime", shame on me.
The Flying Monk,this is a good thing to now about the animation range, that will be usefull for me soon. : )
Thanks for your help everyone ! : )

monster

Just FYI

sliderTime.frame
Will give you the frame number without the f at the end. In case you need that.

sliderTime.normalized
Will give you the percentage of the way through the animation.

and...

(sliderTime.frame - animationRange.start.frame)/frameRate
Will give you the time in seconds through the animation.

Blob

Great, thanks for these infos, that will be certainly useful. : )

Blob

Hello
I have another question. The title of the topic isn't appropriate anymore but since is in the same script...
I can't find how to insert a group of buttons in a UI. I mean, I create a Ui with a button, when I press this button it add several other buttons below in a group inside the same UI.
I have thinking to that, but that seems incorect :

on create pressed do
(
group "Frames"
(

button Frame1 "Frame1"
)
)

This part of my script don't work. For now, all I can do is creat this button in another UI, which is a dirty for my purpose.
Yours lights are greatly appreciate : )

Thanks
Blob

monster

Rollout UI elements can only be defined in the rollout definition and not in any expression that is run. There are ways to accomplish what you want though.

One way to to create all the UI elements you need and disable and enable them as needed. (This is the most common method)

A similar method is to use their visible property to turn them off and on.

The most complex way is to generate a maxscript on the fly and use the execute command to create the UI elements.

Here's an example of each method:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2904948/Tutorials/Martinez_DynamicUI.ms

Blob

Ok, but since I want let the user of the script define the number of buttons he create (I have a spinner for that just above my first button), that exclude theses methods no ?

"generate a maxscript on the fly and use the execute command to create the UI elements" Sorry can you tell me more about that ?

Thanks !

monster

The idea is to have your script create a script and then run it. I do this pretty often with Custom Attributes.

I'm not really sure how to explain better than that, but here's another example script that uses a spinner to generate the specified number of buttons.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2904948/Tutorials/DynamicUISpinner.ms

Blob

wahou exactly what I was looking for, thanks !

Blob

Hello, another little question, I'm using a drop down list, I can use it but I just can't find how to feed her array. I have try the "append myDropdownlist test" command, don't seem to work. What do I'm missing ?
Thanks

monster

You are trying to append to the UI element. You need to access the items property.

append myDropdownlist.items test

If you are adding items in a For loop. Sometimes you need to do this after the loop to make sure it refreshes

myDropdownlist.items = myDropdownlist.items

Blob

Well I finaly get my script working, thanks a lot for your help ! : )