Display folder content in Listbox

By kernberg · 2016-10-06

Description

Hi there!

I'm trying to build a small browser for published Assets.
What the script will do is showing all maxfiles in a certain folder so you can select the Asset you wanna reference. Later it will Xref the Asset, bring also in it's proxy, link a locator to it and lock the Xref.

The question is, how can I get the files of a folder in a rollout listbox?

This is what I came up with so far:

projectRoot = pathConfig.removePathLeaf maxfilepath + "\\"
pubPath = projectRoot + "Assets\PUB\\"
pubFiles = pubPath + "*PUB.max"
files = getFiles pubFiles

rollout Referencer "Referencer" width:394 height:426
(

label 'lbl9' "Reference Assets" pos:[157,17] width:93 height:39 align:#left

listbox objectToKill "Objects:" items:(for o in files collect o) pos:[31,61] width:330 height:20 align:#left
button 'refBtn' "Reference" pos:[119,358] width:139 height:40 align:#left
on refList selected sel do
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on refBtn pressed do
(

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)

So I get the content of the folder in the list. Now I guess I have to create an array which is corresponding with the list storing the file path informations. How can I create that and read it out?

Thanks :)

Comments (6)

kernberg · 2016-10-11

Hi! Thanks for your reply! I got the naming working and spent some hours on finding out how to get the Xref selection, but unfortunately it seems like I don't understand how I can get it going. Sorry for asking again. I was reading through the batch script you posted, but as far as I saw the selection is set with #select flags, which doesn't work for Xrefs. Could you please help me with this? Thank you :)

fajar · 2016-10-08

you just did not search them thoroughly....search term "uniquename"......

you should really read them ....
n for another case (select after merge)of your problem by reading this script

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/batch-loader

kernberg · 2016-10-07

Yes after the Xref comes in I wanna do some operations on it by maxscript. And by the way, there's another problem I step into. When I Xref objects by maxscript I get name clashes. So if I reference 3 times an object called "tree_001" it doesn't number up the object, so I get 3 Xref objects called "tree_001". Any Idea how to get around this?

this is the code I use:

.....
objectName = h3 + "_001"
proxyName = h3 + "_proxy"
proxyPath = c1 + "_proxy.max"
XrefImporter = xrefs.addNewXRefObject assetPath objectName
XrefImporter.proxyfilename = proxyPath
XrefImporter.proxyobjectname = proxyName
XrefImporter.useProxy = true
......

I couldn't find any way to change the Name of the XrefObject in the scene in the maxhelp, or did I just not see it?

Thanks

fajar · 2016-10-07

you mean select object after xref?

kernberg · 2016-10-06

Thanks! I'm now at the point where everything with Xref is working so far.
I'm running into a different problem. When get in the Xref the object is not selected, but I also need to do an operation on it. I was trying to find a call to select or process in any way a xref which just got imported, but couldn't find any. Am I blind? Thanks :)

on Referencer open do (

fajar · 2016-10-06


--to fill list box
on Referencer  open do 
(
    objectToKill.items=files 
)

--to get listbox name
on refBtn pressed do
(
local txt= objectToKill.selected  
if txt!=undefined do messagebox txt --txt here is your file full path
)
--you can replace messagebox with any function you have