button for checking if effect is on or off

it works!!!! man thank you very much!
you are my hero. :)

do you make custom script as job?
I have some ideas for my workflow and I search for a good coder...

best regards
themaxxer

Why not. You can find my contacts inside the script

Hi,

You can add

on isChecked do ...

similar as the prev script had it.

on isChecked do 	
(
	for i = 1 to numEffects do
	(
		local eff = getEffect i
		if matchpattern eff.name pattern:"*psd-manager*" do return (isActive eff)
	)
	
	false
)

Best regards,
Pixamoon

That's exactly what I did, but it doesn't help to update button state if user delete effect or disable it manually.
There seem no callback for effects, unfortunately. The only way I found is to use when subAnimStructure ... changes on the RenderEffects trackview track. But didn't experiment much.

Just quickly checked here in 2016 and it works (disable / delete effect) but only when I accept changes by closing "Environment and Effects" window or open/close other dialog.

I checked also function from isChecked manually and it works even without closing dialog. So it means isChecked is fired up only if something changes in max Dialogs

macroScript Leo_Distributed_render_On 
category:"Leo_DR" 
internalCategory:"Distributed_Render" 
tooltip:"Distributed_Render_ON" 
buttontext:"DR ON"
 
(
	on isChecked return (renderers.current.system_distributedRender)
	on execute do
	(
		renderers.current.system_distributedRender = not (renderers.current.system_distributedRender)

		for i=1 to numEffects do
		(
			eff = getEffect i
			if matchpattern eff.name pattern:"psd-manager" ignorecase:true do setActive eff (not (isActive eff))
 	
		)
	)	
 
)

thanks jahman

it seems not to work... and can you write it in a separate script?

best regards
themaxxer

Try these to toggle psd-manager effect.

for i=1 to numEffects do
(
	eff = getEffect i
	if matchpattern eff.name pattern:"*psd-manager*" ignorecase:true do setActive eff (not (isActive eff))
 
)

or

for i=1 to numEffects do
(
	eff = getEffect i
	if eff.name == "psd-manager" do setActive eff (not (isActive eff))
 
)

thanks jahman

the first one works, didn't tested the second one.
now is it possible to indicate if the button is pushed? like in the Leo DR script.

I would like to donate something if you want. time is money. :)

thanks
themaxxer

Not sure how to correctly update toolbar button state when user adds or removes an effect or enables/disables it manually. Seems like no easy solution exists or I couldn't find one.