That’s what I was considering … it would depend on how the values have to be accumulated in the first place, anyway … curious about the recursion.

Thanks for the reply. That’s interesting. I’m still trying to get my head around where things actully reside, when they are being chucked around betwe…

… but I’m curious about why you choose to go via the clipboard?

No expert, but you might look at setBeforeORT, setAfterORT, enableORTs etc, if your case is always in the form of exact repetition, and using Out-Of-…

Glad you solved it … I was following this thread to hoping to see how/if exceptions are passed out of .net into mxs, though! Can you get at them, if y…

If you’re drawing shapes, you can extract a System.Drawing.Graphics object from your paint event, and draw onto it with any of the Brush and Pen meth…

PEN: How to I release it from memory? With the same resevations as earlier about calling from 3ds, I’m pretty sure yourBitmap.dispose() [font=Ve…

Forgive me, I know nuuuuthing about using .net from inside 3ds, but is there an approach based on this msdn link? Which translates roughly as: …

Oh, for OO!

Jessup3D: Second thing though, for colors that are custom (not in my list) I can’t use it to select by color… Is there another way to do that as wel…

Maybe you already do this, and need more… but you can already select by object color, using the little button in the bottom right of the Object Color …

Aaaaah!:lightbulb Thanks, all. I thought the .ini file was only read on startup! (It’s in the name, I suppose). Well, I learned something today.

ZeBoxx2: the ini is probably your best bet, then… There’s command-line utilities … but they all require that window to actually be open at that time…

Thanks, that gives me something to chew on … Find The Handle :rolleyes: … I wanted to write a little utility to reset dialogs to default positions at …