I want to get the value from the keyboard after pressing enter during script running! The script has no window!
I know about entering a value in maxscript listener:
v = getKBValue prompt:"Enter object count:"
if classOf v != integer then
print "Value entered must be an integer"
else print v
but how to use it when you work inside max viewport, an object is selected and operate with it – and at a moment you need to give a value from keyboard?
I will appreciate very much your support!
It may call an input field when typing first digit-and after hitting enter-a variable would get the value! I have the idea, but no clue how to achieve that!
heeeey, please! still no idea? PLEASE HELP! I need it very much!
help yourself. try to better explain what you want… do you want to interrupt your code, wait for user’s keyboard input, and continue the code after that?
maybe it’s what you want:
(
answer
do
(
format "today is %
" ((dotnetclass "DateTime").Today.ToString "D")
v = getKBChar prompt:"is it true?(Y/N)"
answer = if stricmp v #y == 0 then format "
good! have a nice day!
" else
(
format "
try again...
"
undefined
)
)
while answer == undefined
ok
)
Thank you, Denis! Sorry for the bad explanation!
Unfortunately it doesn’t work!
fn mouseCapture msg ir obj faceNum shift ctrl alt =
(
if msg == #freeMove then
(
myObj.pos = mapScreenToCP mouse.pos
myObj.pos.z = zzz
myObj.dir = [0,0,1]
if keyboard.shiftpressed then
print "shift pressed"
return #continue
)
)
The above script is working fine at me! It’s printing shift pressed while I move mouse inside viewport! But if I use this one:
fn mouseCapture msg ir obj faceNum shift ctrl alt =
(
if msg == #freeMove then
(
myObj.pos = mapScreenToCP mouse.pos
myObj.pos.z = zzz
myObj.dir = [0,0,1]
v = getKBChar prompt:"is it true?(Y/N)"
answer = if stricmp v #y == 0 then format "
good! have a nice day!
" else
(
format "
try again...
"
undefined
)
return #continue
)
)
then my script stops at all!
fn mouseCapture msg ir obj faceNum shift ctrl alt =
(
if msg == #freeMove then
(
myObj.pos = mapScreenToCP mouse.pos
myObj.dir = [0,0,1]
distance = getKBChar prompt:"put distance"
myObj.pos.y = myObj.pos.y+distance
return #continue
)
)
I want to put the distance on which the object should move after pressing enter!
as i understood you want to make a cloning tool that works the same as Revit… but you don’t have enough skills for that. to make this tool is not easy at all. you have to know many things.
how can i tell you just an ending of a story if you don’t know the whole story.
try to go this way:
make mouse track function
check that one of modifier keys pressed (ALT for example)
if so, popup modal dialog that has only one control – spinner
if Esc or Return pressed close dialog and continue tracking
…
after that we will continue