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Submitted by johncrawshaw on Wed, 2013-08-07 02:15

Hi all. I'm making a dynamic menu bar in maxscript. I'm having a little bit of trouble opening up the right file path. I'm looking through folders then wanting to open the directories in the right place.

in short this is what I'm having trouble with:

	str = "macroscript smartmenu_scene" + (ii as string) + " category:\"smartmenu_scene\" buttontext:\"" + (getFilenameFile i) + "\" (getOpenFileName filename:scenefilepather \"" + i + "\")"
	execute str

Here is the whole script for a little more reference:

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--Project Grabber
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ProjectPath = "C:\3dsmax2013\3ds Max 2013\scripts\Project Manager\CurrentPrj.txt"
 
ProjectText = openFile (ProjectPath)mode:"r"
while NOT eof ProjectText do 
oReadLine = readLine ProjectText
--filepath.caption = oReadline
close ProjectText	
 
scenefilepather = "G:\\" + oReadline + "\\B_JOBS\\06_15137_CENTRE_POINT_SET_06_INTERIORS_AMENITY\\02_PRODUCTION\\"	
dirArray = GetDirectories (scenefilepather+"/*") --//Get subfolders in directory
scene_files = for d in dirArray collect (trimright (filenameFromPath d) "\\")
print scene_files
sort scene_files
 
xreffilepather= "G:\\" + oReadline + "\\C_MASTER_FILES\\02_XREFS\\*.max"
xref_files = getFiles  xreffilepather
sort xref_files
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--Destroy Menu
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if ((menuMan.findMenu "ADC Manager") != undefined) then 
(
	menuMan.unRegisterMenu (menuMan.findMenu "ADC Manager")
	menuMan.updateMenuBar()
)
(
 
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--Menu
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--create a Menu to add onto the main menu bar
newMenu = menuMan.createMenu "ADC Manager"
 
--create a SubMenu menu 1
scenesubMenu = menuMan.createMenu "Scene"	
ii = 0
for i in scene_files do 
(
	ii = ii + 1
	bobby = scenefilepather + i + "\\02_3D\\"
	str = "macroscript smartmenu_scene" + (ii as string) + " category:\"smartmenu_scene\" buttontext:\"" + (getFilenameFile i) + "\" (getOpenFileName filename:scenefilepather \"" + i + "\")"
	execute str	
 
	MenuItemone = menuMan.createActionItem ("smartmenu_scene" + (ii as string)) "smartmenu_scene"
	scenesubMenu.addItem MenuItemone -1
)
 
--create a SubMenu menu 2
xrefsubMenu = menuMan.createMenu "Xref"	
ii = 0
for i in xref_files do 
(
	ii = ii + 1
	str = "macroscript smartmenu_xref" + (ii as string) + " category:\"smartmenu_xref\" buttontext:\"" + (getFilenameFile i) + "\" (loadMaxFile \"" + i + "\")"
	execute str
 
	MenuItemtwo = menuMan.createActionItem ("smartmenu_xref" + (ii as string)) "smartmenu_xref"
	xrefsubMenu.addItem MenuItemtwo -1
)
 
--create a Menu Item holding that menu
subMenuItemscene = menuMan.createSubMenuItem "Scene" scenesubMenu	
subMenuItemxref = menuMan.createSubMenuItem "Xref" xrefsubMenu
 
--add it to our new menu in the 1st position
newMenu.addItem subMenuItemscene 1
newMenu.addItem subMenuItemxref 2
 
--get the Main Menu
mainMenu = menuMan.getMainMenuBar()
 
--find last item + 1
menuPos = mainMenu.numItems() + 1
 
--create a Menu Item for the new menu
newMenuItem = menuMan.createSubMenuItem "ADC Manager" newMenu
 
--add it to the main menu
mainMenu.addItem newMenuItem menuPos
 
--update the main menu to reflect the changes
menuMan.updateMenuBar() 
)

Anyone got any ideas why it won't drill down a folder?

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Submitted by miauu on Wed, 2013-08-07 06:03.

.

I don't have max to test, but try with this:

(
	--	(ii as string) should be the path to the file 
	str = "resetMaxFile #noPrompt\n"
	str += "loadMaxFile " + (ii as string) + " useFileUnits:true quiet:true"
	execute str
)

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