[Closed] reserved names and dot net

I don’t think that those key words being reserved is the issue.

I may be mistaken, but I think you are trying to treat the dotnet constructor as a function of sorts? Passing the style you wish as a parameter?

dotNET doesn’t quite work that way. You essentially want to get the constructed value out of the flat style class directly. E.g.:

myButton.flatStyle = (dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle").system
myButton.flatStyle = (dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle").standard
myButton.flatStyle = (dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle").flat

-- where the following is the class to derive from
dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle"
dotNetClass:System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle

-- where the following is the actual value (object)
(dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle").system
dotNetObject:System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle

Interesting as it does work. Well Flat works any ways but popup doesn’t look like it is doing anything different. I will try your method and see what I get. I think my problem was I started with dotNetObject and not dotNetClass. Thanks

Yep that worked. System is what I was looking for as I figured it would be the same as what is in Max.

Richard, I have added you as one of the dotNet pros on my main dotnet page. I don’t have a home page ofr you so I have linked you to http://www.splutterfish.com/sf/WebContent/Index
Is this OK with you?

http://paulneale.com/tutorials/dotNet/dotNet.htm

For buttons, there’s a very faint change in the button’s outline between popup and flat on my machine – probably dependent on the windows UI settings. Should be visible (look closely, though) when changing it using the latter method.

Interesting, so doing it they way I did worked for flat but didn’t work for popup or the others as I see a difference now. I see what I would expect with a setting called popup:)

alternative way:

testbutton.flatStyle = testbutton.flatStyle.System

Hi Paul,

The original dotnetobject method seems to work when building a dedicated dotnet UI. this example is a snippet of a larger script but has some extras like using an imagelist to specify a button with a transparent background. I just made a function to set the button’s appearance and passed the dotnet button and the properties in the arguments. Once the classes are defined you should be able to do the same to the dotnetcontrol.property method in the same way as rich suggested. hope it helps!

dotNet.loadAssembly "MaxCustomControls.dll"
  
  global TCBform
  
  fn BuildDotNetButton btn btntext size font style mobg mdbg x y =
  (
  	btn.text = btntext
  	btn.font = font
  	btn.size = size
  	btn.location = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Point" x y
  	btn.flatstyle = dotnetobject "System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle" style
  	btn.FlatAppearance.MouseOverBackColor = mobg
  	btn.FlatAppearance.MouseDownBackColor = mdbg	
  	TCBForm.controls.add btn	
  )
  
  fn DotNetUI =	
  (	
  try(TCBForm.close())catch()
  
  -- class objects
  -- colours, size,layout and font class libraries
  cTCBColor = dotNetClass "System.Drawing.Color"
  cgroupbox = dotnetclass "System.Windows.Forms.Groupbox"
  csize = dotNetclass "System.Drawing.Size" 
  cButton = dotNetclass "System.Windows.Forms.Button"
  cLabel = dotNetclass "System.Windows.Forms.Label"
  
  cfontStyle = dotNetClass "System.Drawing.FontStyle"	
  cFont = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Font" "System" 7 cfontStyle.regular			
  cFontbold = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Font" "System" 7 cfontStyle.bold	  
  cFontLargeit = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Font" "System" 9 cfontStyle.italic		  
  cFontboldLarge = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Font" "System" 9 cfontStyle.bold
  calign = dotnetclass "System.Drawing.ContentAlignment"
  
   --DotNetForm Declarations
  
  
  TCBForm = dotNetObject "MaxCustomControls.MaxForm"
  TCBForm.ClientSize = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Size" 118 156
  TCBForm.text = ".Net"
  TCBForm.font = cfontLarge
  TCBForm.topmost = true
  oFormBorderStyle = dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle"
  TCBForm.FormBorderStyle = oFormBorderStyle.FixedToolWindow
  TCBForm.ShowInTaskbar = true
  TCBForm.MinimizeBox = false
  TCBForm.MaximizeBox = false
  
  --convert 3ds max UI colors to dotnet color classes 
  maxBackColor = colorMan.getColor #background
  maxForeColor = colorMan.getColor #text
  maxButtonColor = colorMan.getColor #pressedButton 
   
  TCBForm.BackColor = cTCBColor.FromArgb (maxBackColor[1] * 255.0f) (maxBackColor[2] * 255.0f) (maxBackColor[3] * 255.0f)
  TCBForm.ForeColor = cTCBColor.FromArgb (maxForeColor[1] * 255.0f) (maxForeColor[2] * 255.0f) (maxForeColor[3] * 255.0f)
  MBColorDotNet = cTCBColor.FromArgb (maxButtonColor[1] * 255.0f) (maxButtonColor[2] * 255.0f) (maxButtonColor[3] * 255.0f)
  
  -- using an image list to load a transparent image color onto the button
  
  -- load the dotnet image
  -- imageclass = dotNetclass "System.Drawing.image"
  -- IListimage1 = imageclass.fromfile (LRUIdir+"TCB.bmp")
  -- construct the imagelist
  -- imglist = dotnetobject "System.Windows.Forms.ImageList"
  -- imglist.imagesize =  dotnetobject "System.Drawing.Size" 106 62
  -- imglist.images.add ilistimage1
  -- imglist.TransparentColor = CTCBColor.white
  
  -- object Size class instances
  oBtnSize1 = dotNetObject cSize 28 18
  oBtnSize2 = dotNetObject csize 38 38
  oBtnSize3 = dotNetObject csize 110 25
  oBtnSize4 = dotNetObject csize 100 20
  oBtnSize5= dotNetObject csize 110 62
  groupSize1 = dotNetObject csize 110 60
  groupSize2 = dotNetObject csize 110 185
  
  --dotnet controls
  
  groupeaseto = dotnetobject cGroupBox
  groupeaseto.text = "Ease To "
  groupeaseto.font = cfont
  groupeaseto.size = groupsize1
  groupeaseto.location = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Point" 5 95
  										
  ---- BUTTONS
  											
  TCBReset = dotnetobject cbutton
  BuildDotNetButton TCBReset "Reset TCB" obtnSize5 cfontBoldLarge Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 5 6
  
  
  -- position the image on the button
  -- TCBReset.ImageIndex = 0
  -- TCBReset.ImageList = ImgList
  
  TCBReset.TextAlign = cAlign.bottomCenter
  
  btnkey = dotNetObject cButton
  BuildDotNetButton btnkey "Add Key" obtnSize3 cfontLarge Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 5 70
  
  btnEaseTo0 = dotNetObject cButton
  BuildDotNetButton btnEaseTo0 "0" obtnSize2 cfontboldlarge Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 10 110
  
  btnEaseTo10 = dotNetObject cButton
  BuildDotNetButton btnEaseTo10 "10" obtnSize1 cfont Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 50 110
  
  btnEaseTo25 = dotNetObject cButton
  BuildDotNetButton btnEaseTo25 "25" obtnSize1 cfont Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 50 130
  
  btnEaseTo40 = dotNetObject cButton
  BuildDotNetButton btnEaseTo40 "40" obtnSize1 cfont Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 80 110
  
  btnEaseTo50 = dotNetObject cButton
  BuildDotNetButton btnEaseTo50 "50" obtnSize1 cfont Flat MBColorDotNet cTCBcolor.crimson 80 130
  
   -- add the groups last so they are arranged behind the buttons 
  TCBForm.controls.add groupeaseto
  TCBForm.show()
  
  )
  
  DotNetUI()
  	

holy avatar paul neale!

did you just take a bad ass pill?