[Closed] Bridge Dialogue for EP-object?

3ds Max 7? Think you might have to resort to external utilities, then…

There doesn’t appear to be a #bridge* in 3ds Max 2009 either. At least from 3ds Max 9 on you could use UIAccessor…

 fn openBridgeDialog = (
 	maxHWND = windows.getMaxHWND() -- handle to 3ds Max
 	maxChildren = windows.getChildrenHWND maxHWND -- all of 3ds Max's children elements
 	foundPanel = false
 	foundButton = false
 	for child in maxChildren do (
 		if (child[4] == "RollupPanelTitle") then (
 			if ((child[5] == "Edit Edges") OR (child[5] == "Edit Polygons")) then ( foundPanel = true )
 			else ( foundPanel = false )
 		)
 		if (foundPanel) then (
 			if (foundButton) then (
 				uiaccessor.pressbutton child[1]
 				return OK
 			)
 			if (child[5] == "Bridge") then (
 				foundButton = true
 			)
 		)
 	)
 	undefined
 )

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But that won’t do you much good in 3ds Max 7. The UIAccessor bits work through the user interface – looking up the UI elements to buttons, etc. and pressing the appropriate button. There are 3rd party applications – such as AutoIt – that can do much the same… you’d have to launch something like that with a set of command-line parameters, etc.

I’d imagine it’d be easier to script your own dialog – looks like the various settings -in- the popup dialog should at least be accessible… see topics:
Interface: EditablePoly
and
Editable_Poly Properties
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Ok, I made a custom bridge dialogue, only option remaining is a preview mode,
I think I will use some “undo and re-bridge” method after a parameter is changed on the dialogue.
Just need to see it’s a effiecent way to do it, might see a (choking) problem rising when using the spinners (by fast scrolling that is),
might use some update-preview type of button instead.

Anyway thanks for the input, I will consider this thread as solved.

(btw, I’ll take a look at AutoIt and similair.)