Hi,
I’m using Max Script. I’d like to pass some parameters to a rollout, just like you would normally specify in a class’ constructor. Rollouts do not seem to have such an ability. Or do they?
I know I could access locals in a rollout directly, but their values get reset upon initialization, which is not good for what I need.
Currently what I do is I created a struct available globally, with the members, to which I assign values before I call ‘createDialog’. This way
my rollout will read the data from that struct.
But that seems a bit cumbersome…
Is there any more elegant way to do it?
They get set to whatever value is assigned to them in the rollout, you can reassign them to itself and they will hold the same value:
rollout varTest ""
(
local str = if isKindOf str String then str else "Default"
button btnStr str
)
varTest.str = "Override"
createDialog varTest
Thanks everyone for your answsers. All are good ideas, however I probably will go for this one, for what I need:
I’d never think about assigning variable to itself, based on type etc… Really cunning idea.
Thanks again!
Like most of the other brilliant ideas, I first saw this one used by denisT, and didn’t look back ever since
I usually access local variables because in my case I don’t need to save their values outside rollout’s screen life.
Global struct is not that bad.
you could do it as a Custom Attribute with local variables and/or parameter blocks, right?
And of course you can use an ‘*.ini’ file to load values in the ‘on open’ event and save them in the ‘on close’ one.