Is there a way to access these properties? I’ve tried looking in the help, but i don’t know exactly where to look. I’m sure i’ll probably find as soon as i post this.
I’m particularly looking for access to the “dot” and “handle” size. I would prefer not to go through dialogMonitorOps.
any help would be appreciated.
attached is a screenshot of what i’m looking for…
there is no access to these params from MXS. And it seams like you can’t get them using dialogMonitorOps…
thats what i thought
looks like i might have to parse the 3dsmax.ini file. Anyone have much experience doing that?
It is inside the 3dsmax.ini file. You would need to use this to get the values:
getINISetting (getMAXIniFile()) "Performance" "VertexDots"
getINISetting (getMAXIniFile()) "Performance" "VertexDotType"
getINISetting (getMAXIniFile()) "Performance" "HandleBoxType"
And this to set the values:
setINISetting (getMAXIniFile()) "Performance" "VertexDots" "1"
setINISetting (getMAXIniFile()) "Performance" "VertexDotType" "0" -- can be between 0 and 5, where 0=2 and 5=7
setINISetting (getMAXIniFile()) "Performance" "HandleBoxType" "1" -- can be between 0 and 5, where 0=2 and 5=7
Only problem is that it doesn’t force it in the current Max session. Not sure how to force Max to reload the .ini.
-Eric
thanks, that will help out a bunch.
i can force a restart of max, that wouldn’t be a problem.
I’m basically trying to make a script to save all my settings, and then when i get a new version of max, to incorporate them. I know loading various menu’s files and such of older versions usually breaks new features. i had that happen to me back in the day when i tried to load a 7 .cui file into 9. Or at least that was my recollection anyways…
But in that regard, where are custom toolbars located? I’m pretty sure i don’t have access to making those in maxscript either?
They are ascii files and are stored in .cui files in your UI folder, and you can use get/setINISetting to access/modify/create the data.
EDIT: with the getINISetting <filename_string>, and getINISetting <filename_string> <section_string> you can get arrays of all the section and keys. You can then use that to extract the needed data.
-Eric
Cool. thanks again