MapButton with a jpg file as image

Submitted by thinkyogurt on Mon, 2025-01-27 10:30

EASY QUESTION . it's such a simple question that in a day of testing I couldn't solve it and not even chatgpt can help me. and looking at the max online guide I'm pretty sure that not even autodesk knows how to do it).
I would like to make a button with a jpg, simple. no strange stuff, script pages.

what's wrong with this line of code?

mapButton 'btn1' "MapButton" width:75 height:90 pos:[20,10] map:@"G:\\XXX\SCRIPT_interfaccia\SCRIPT_Library\Immagini_Tessere\STANDARD\KKK\file_0001.jpg"

grazie
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Submitted by SimonBourgeois on Sun, 2025-02-16 07:58.

Hi

It is because your are using "mapButton" which is a special kind of button that opens the map browser, if you want to create a simple button with an image you can use this:

(
	 rollout test "test"
	 (
		 button 'btn1' width:75 height:90 pos:[20,10] 
 
		 on test open do
		 (
			local image ="G:/XXX/SCRIPT_interfaccia/SCRIPT_Library/Immagini_Tessere/STANDARD/KKK/file_0001.jpg"
			btn1.images =  #(image, undefined, 1,1,1,1,1 )
		 )
	 )
	 CreateDialog test
 )

or you can use dotnet:

(
	rollout test "test"
	(
 
		dotNetControl 'btn1' "System.Windows.Forms.Button" width:75 height:90 pos:[20,10] 
 
		on test open do
		(
			local btn1ImgPath = "G:/XXX/SCRIPT_interfaccia/SCRIPT_Library/Immagini_Tessere/STANDARD/KKK/file_0001.jpg"
			local btn1Img = dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Bitmap" btn1ImgPath
			btn1.image = btn1Img
		)
	)
	CreateDialog test
)

if you choose dotnet the event handler is as follow: on btn1 click do... (use "click" instead of "pressed")

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