There is a class in maxcustomcontrols.dll in the dotnet SDK that is used in the scene explorer. It’s called “RenameInstanceDialog”- this can be utilis…

Just for kicks, I posted a fully hosted dotnet script browser a while back, you can get it at my site here – There’s a few interesting bits to note…

I found a nice method that I converted from VB to use with a combobox – it calculates the maximum width of the text strings in the dropdown and adjust…

Awesome news, thanks Kees.

I can see the worry of wanting to protect your tools, but not in a forum where it’s highly likely that you have got to the point of releasing somethin…

if you use something like Grant Adam’s attribute editor you can extract the CADef to a file, then use the Visual Maxscript editor to make your change…

from the help – NOTE: Changing the render scene dialog settings via MAXScript should be done with the actual render scene dialog in a closed state….

Actually I was being a bit dim – you can totally cast the selection bitarray into a standard max array, that makes it easier. Either way will work, th…

Hey John, the pertinent difference I found is that you can tell if an array is empty by using the .count property. So in a listbox this is how you kn…

Hi, you have probably missed the multilistbox? thing to remember is that the multiselection is handled by a bitarray, so be sure to check the methods…

Hi Chris, To disable this you need to specify animatable:false in the parameter block of the attribute. The spinner would normally be bound to this v…

Well spotted. Let’s just say that what gets copied, stays copied. It’s better than way.

Watch out Jason, you don’t want to give away details of your secret workflow. I guess that’s a good way of looking at it. If the syntax errors are g…

Yeah the other keys might well be normal, but surely only a maxscripter would rub out ctrl+E !