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Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Hello!

So I’ve been playing around a bit with 3dsMax ui lately, and I’ve been trying to “Hide/Show Menu Bar” through maxscript.
As you may know it’s not exposed to maxscript at all.
But I found this utility called “Snoop” that basically allows you to spy on WPF forms. I found the variable that shows/hides the menu bar.

Now I “just” need to be able to change that value through maxscript instead of “Snoop”. And since I have no idea how to go on from here, I’m just throwing it out there, maybe someone knows how to proceed from here…

Cheers,
Norman

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Norman3D

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Here is a little something I found…

http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2010/04/adding-to-autocads-application-menu-and-quick-access-toolbar-using-net.html

It’s also using “Autodesk.Windows.ToolBars.QuickAccessToolBarSource”

Norman3D

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

So I did some progress here…
Alex Krammer’s “Show .Net Property” tool actually can access “Autodesk.Windows.ToolBars.QuickAccessToolBarSource”.
(See screenshot)

But I’m still unable to change the property. Does anyone know why?

QAT_Toolbar = dotNetObject "Autodesk.Windows.ToolBars.QuickAccessToolBarSource"
QAT_Toolbar.IsMenuBarVisible = false

biddle

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Don’t create a new toolbar, use the component manager singleton to fetch the existing one:

qatbar = (dotnetclass "Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager").QuickAccessToolBar

qatbar.IsVisible = false
qatbar.IsMenuBarVisible = false

qatbar.IsVisible = true
qatbar.IsMenuBarVisible = true

.biddle

Norman3D

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Of course!

Thanks a lot biddle!

Norman3D

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

So I’m just going to leave this here, in case anyone is interested. It should get rid of the InfoCenter and the QuickAccessToolbar.

ComponentManager = (dotnetclass "Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager")

ComponentManager.QuickAccessToolBar.IsVisible = false
ComponentManager.InfoCenterToolBar.MaxWidth = 0
ComponentManager.InfoCenterToolBar.MinWidth = 0

Thanks again biddle!

Edit: It looks so much better now…

listener

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Just a quick question its a bit off topic where do you find

Autodesk.Windows etc… Assembly i dont see it in the SDK

plastic

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

great stuff!
thank you for permanently killing the stupid info center for me!

biddle

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

It isn’t documented but you can use reflection to ferret out what you need.

I typically rely on the Object Browser that comes with Visual Studio to pull in assembly files and snoop around for things that look interesting, but you can discover a lot with 3dsmax alone.

The following snippet will dump all the exported types found in the assemblies located in your max root folder.

for dllname in getfiles ((getdir #maxroot)+"*.dll") do
(
	try (
		asm = dotnet.LoadAssembly dllname
		format "
-------------------------------------------
"
		format "[%] exports:
" dllname
		for etype in (asm.GetExportedTypes()) do
		(
			format "%
" etype.FullName
		)
	)
	catch ()
)

The “Autodesk” namespace contains code that looks to be shared with (or derived from) the stuff that is in AutoCAD. Perhaps you can look there for enlightenment? link

I tried poking around adding buttons to the quick access bar & such, but it seemed kind of klunky.

.biddle

listener

Feb 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Thank you… it helped me alot. Im now looking into assemblies, could you possibly post example how you add buttons to toolbar because i made few examples since but just cant run them in max.

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