[Closed] Select by Name Version 3

Nice, I hope you don’t mind some feedback on features.

I wish “Normal” “Hidden” “Frozen” were radio style instead of filter style. You know, you click Hidden and it unclicks Normal. Yes…I’m lazy.

It would be cool if there was a biped category. I find myself selecting all the biped objects often to scale my timing.

Lastly, It seems to crash on me when I try to resize the window.

– Error occurred in rlt_newSelectionTool.resized()
>> MAXScript Rollout Handler Exception: – Unknown property: “width” in EditTextControl:edt_stringFilter <<
>> MAXScript Rollout Handler Exception: – Unknown property: “width” in EditTextControl:edt_stringFilter <<

Hey thanks for the feedback!

Radio buttons type system would stop you from being able to see both hidden and frozen objects with non-hidden and objects. I might make it so if you hold ctrl and click the buttons the others automatically click off?

biped stuff I’ll look into

The error your are getting is because you’re using max 6… I’ll put in a catch for this now.

OK, I’ve updated the upload with the ctrl click on the mode buttons and the catch for the max 6 crash.

http://www.rodgreen.com/mxs/rdt_selectByNameV3.mcr

Thanks again!

Hey, thank’s! But i have some error scrit when i resize the pannel.

3ds max 7.5.

PS: I use a lot your Select by name v2.

Looks good!!

Have some suggestions though, the ability to save preferences, like size and show subtree…
Don’t know about the delete key, looks out of place and scary what if you exidentaly missed the invert button…
I also think it’s better to stick with max conventions regarding colors. The text now has a green color with me… I would prefer it to be the regular style max uses, but that’s me…
In a new scene with no objects yet, I hit select all and the script crashes…
Cancel should be named close matching the selection floater.

But I like it a lot, the direct way of selecting objects filtering etc…

Keep it up!
Johan

OK, I updated it with some major changes:

1. the ability to save window size

2. the colors for the object display window are now present in the color manager (inside customize interface|colors|Select By Name V3) so you can set the colors to be whatever you want.

3. “In a new scene with no objects yet, I hit select all and the script crashes…” – fixed

4. Renamed ‘cancel’ to ‘close’

5. Saves “ALL” settings for the rollout

http://www.rodgreen.com/mxs/rdt_selectByNameV3.mcr

Excellent tool!
One more request though

Maybe there some way of closing the dialog on hitting enter…
My workflow on selecting objects…
hit the H key
select objects
hit enter / or select button

But since this tool wil directly select the objects it won’t close after selecting, maybe the enter key kan help there… just a suggestion though… for those of us with (sometimes) limited workspace…

Cool tool!
Johan

“Maybe there some way of closing the dialog on hitting enter…”

Done!

updated:

http://www.rodgreen.com/mxs/rdt_selectByNameV3.mcr

Hope you don’t hate me by now … but the the list types seem broken, can’t get it to filter geometry and camera’s and such…!? Also hitting enter does nothing on my install… anyplace specific where I should hit enter?

And also it save my preferences, but it doesn’t update them when opening, for example show subtree, is selected when openening but it doesn’t reflect in the list…

Hate do be the bringer of this sort of news, I know it has taken many hours to write this…

Keep it up and thanx!
Johan

Hey Rod,

This looks a nice little script, i shall look forward to trying it out.