Maxscript dotnet

Submitted by johncrawshaw on Mon, 2015-03-30 09:52

Hi Guys,

I'm working on a script which uses a dotnet form for the UI. One of the elements is a ListView. When trying to get it to select one of the items I get an error. I'm basing a lot of it around:
http://scriptattack.com/snippets/snippets.html

Although I have to call functions like this:

fn Shot_lb_Get Shot_lb evnt =
(
hit=(Shot_lb.HitTest (dotNetObject "System.Drawing.Point" arg.x arg.y))
row=hit.item.Index
)
dotnet.addEventHandler Shot_lb "MouseUp" Shot_lb_Get

Does anyone have an idea why it fails?

John

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Submitted by johncrawshaw on Tue, 2015-03-31 05:33.

Works

That works great for me, for now. I might want the index number at some point but not for now. Thank-you.

John

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Submitted by pixamoon on Tue, 2015-03-31 07:15.

index

Sure :) To get index of first selected item:

lv_objects.SelectedItems.item[0].index

One important thing: dotNet arrays index starts from 0 (not like maxscript from 1)

Best,
Pixamoon

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Submitted by johncrawshaw on Wed, 2015-04-01 01:56.

You little beauty! Perfect.

While you seem to be a bit of a dotnet genius. Don't suppose you know how to fix the padding on a dotnet webpage? (its a test image)

webbrowser_rollout = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser"
webbrowser_rollout.Url = dotNetObject "System.Uri" "http://assets3.parliament.uk/iv/main-large//ImageVault/Images/id_7382/scope_0/ImageVaultHandler.aspx.jpg"
webbrowser_rollout.Margin = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.Padding" 0 0 0 0
webbrowser_rollout.ScrollBarsEnabled = false
webbrowser_rollout.Width = 242
webbrowser_rollout.Height = 184
webbrowser_rollout.left = 200
webbrowser_rollout.top = 30
dn_form_Tasks.controls.add webbrowser_rollout

John

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Submitted by pixamoon on Wed, 2015-04-01 03:19.

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no no, I just had the same problems recently for my scripts... :p

I've never used dotnet webpage, but I'll take a look. It's nice to learn new things :)

Best,
Pixamoon

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Submitted by pixamoon on Wed, 2015-04-01 03:54.

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but do you need browser or you just want to add image / logo from the web to your script ?

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Submitted by johncrawshaw on Wed, 2015-04-01 04:19.

Image

An picture box would do. But the url I have is very long for the image I want to download. The web browser doesn't have a problem with the length. Its just really annoying the padding thing!!

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Submitted by pixamoon on Wed, 2015-04-01 07:19.

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yes, I was thinking about download image and than use it.
Did you try download with dotnet ?

I tried a bit your browser code. Still no success to change padding but I tried
webbrowser_rollout.left = -15
webbrowser_rollout.top = -10

to move image left and up,
this is only temporary solution :(

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Submitted by pixamoon on Wed, 2015-04-01 08:10.

download file

did you try this way to download:

url = "http://assets3.parliament.uk/iv/main-large//ImageVault/Images/id_7382/scope_0/ImageVaultHandler.aspx.jpg"
newFile = (getDir #temp) + "//" + "00_test.jpg"
 
fn DownloadFile url newFile = (
	wc=dotNetClass "System.Net.WebClient"
	sr=dotNetClass "System.IO.StreamReader"
	wcobj=(dotNetObject wc)
	stm=wcobj.DownloadFile url newFile
)
 
DownloadFile url newFile
shellLaunch newFile ""

It works here with your test image.

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Submitted by johncrawshaw on Wed, 2015-04-01 10:13.

Wow

That's perfect!! I can just download all the thumbnails to the local drive and then reference them from there. Thanks-you so much. My UI will look loads better now. And quicker!

John

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Submitted by pixamoon on Wed, 2015-04-01 16:16.

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nice :)

but you can also add your thumbnails to .mzp file and they will be copied during installation

take a look on:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/drop-and-relink

mzp.run file makes this job.

mzp format is just a zip file with different extension.

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