Notepad

Sorry Nik, I didn't realize your comment was aimed at ikerclon. I thought you meant the notepad script...it's been a long day:)

Don't be silly

Use standard tools - it's not stupid
What is written in the script pad no one but you will not read

)

I was thinking about writing a little tool to assist me when saving the different versions of my work, when I did a search and found this. It's very useful, so thanks for sharing :)

However, my idea was aiming in using 'Summary Info' to store these notes so the clients do not have to install anything. I remember you could call these 'comments' from the Windows Explorer some years ago, but I can't do it on Windows 7. That's weird...

Good job!!!

Well, if you intend to be a single text file for an entire folder, its looks to me w'd be most easy to use INI file. You can create separate section for each max file using it name. Something like:

[CAR_BEAUTY_v001]
Comment = model broken up into render passes
[CAR_BEAUTY_v002]
Comment = wheel position moved (20 degree rotation)
...

All what w'd need is just a simple dialog with edittext.
If you hit some difficulty to write such a script alone, just mail me ;)

Anubis

RE: "If the user decided to make a note in the summary portion of the file..."

Hi Gerald,
If you like this solution you can search in the help for fileProperties struct, but its

not safety

. They can be deleted, become blank, and who knows why but no eny warning about in the help.

RE: "i would love a real window resize but i believe i can not realisize it..."

Hi le1setreter,
try resized event (

on <Rollout> resized <Point2> do

).

[EDIT] @Gerald - you post at the same time as me, and as reading it, I guess you probably need database management.

Regards,
Anubis

Yes, the problem with that is if you have a few hundred revisions of a file, looking through the properties of each file to find that specific comment you are looking for can take forever. If there was one text document that contained all the notes, you can open the .txt and search for whatever string you want to quickly find the file. I used file properties for a while but its just too chaotic on large jobs.

thank you all for your feedback.

looks like the windowsize is still something that has to be improved. i would love a real window resize but i believe i can not realisize it (maybe dotnet functions could do but i am not sure ...).
so i will go the easy way and add some more different sizes.

also the point with the txt-files mentioned by gerald abraham sounds interesting. although when starting the script my main intention has been to work absolut internal the scene and so to avoid external txt-files i think it won't be a big problem to add some check-button for additional exporting the notes as txt-files. ....but, questionable here is to create one note for each scene or each scene folder. maybe i should add another options like "project-related" or "file-related"...

i will think about it and start some upadating as soon as i find a little bit more time. in the meantime any ideas/suggestions are always appreciated.

thanks
-le1setreter

Hey le1 setreter,

Perpahs I was a little too vague in my description. I meant sort of a single text file per version of the scene file that would sit in the same folder. Like, if I had CAR_BEAUTY_v001, CAR_BEAUTY_v002, CAR_BEAUTY_v003, etc, maybe a single text file (maybe CAR_BEAUTY_vXXX.txt ??) that would have the version history of all those files. If there is another render pass in the same folder like ENV_FOREGROUND_v001 or FUMES_v001, a new text file could be created in the same folder summing up the version history of each respective file. If that seems like a bit of work, (I realize you are kind enough to create this out of your own good will) perhaps one text file for the entire folder which might look like this....

CAR_BEAUTY_v001 - model broken up into render passes
CAR_BEAUTY_v002 - wheel position moved (20 degree rotation)
CAR_BEAUTY_v003 - hierarchy reorganized with DUMMY_A as parent
ENV_FOREGROUND_v003 - added meshsmooth detail close to camera
FUMES_v003 - reduced size of simulation area

great work on the script so far though. If you are abale to add something of this nature in the near future, i'll surely be using it in my pipeline.

I have been looking for something similar to this for a while now. Just a suggestion but I was wondering if there might be a way in future versions to consolidate the notes created for each scene and save that in a text file that can be found in the same folder as the scenes.

For example, if someone is working on a job with large scene files and they are asked to go back to a previous version with a certain change by a client, they might have to search many versions back to find the exact scene they want to. Working with CAD data, it might take a few minutes to open each one of those files up and if you've gone through 100s of revisions over weeks or months, it might take you a few hours to find the exact scene you are looking for. If the user decided to make a note in the summary portion of the file, it might still be alot of right clicking and getting properties before that one special scene is found.

I know when I jump back and forth between projects or come back to them after a few weeks or months of being on another job, I tend to forget where I was and which scene is which.

I agree resizing would be cool.....oh and a spell checker ;) ...j/k

Hey man, very nice script, pretty useful. I have a suggestion: make an option to make it bigger to the side too, not only in height ;)
cheers,

Jsrocha

This refuses to work for me in max 2011 32 :(

EDIT :

My bad...I needed to add an object ;)...nice script, much slicker than the default pop-up notes, I stopped using pop-ups because for some reason it never saved the note...just displayed {30ECEE8B-167A-4574-B94B-845D48C426A1}.

Hi le1setreter,
I not see contact form on your account and I'll post here.
So... if interested in notes, may also check the standard pf helper Notes, it has '.Comment' property and you can assign a post-open callback to read the notes ;)

Is there a difference with the pop-up note?

no. it is just to prompt given notes, if they are given.

Nice! Very similar to cryInfo, the tool that the guys at crytek use.
Nice to see something like this on scriptspot ;)

Sorry for the double post...

When I launch the sript, and I press the button "Delete Notes" without having written anything, there is a messagebox "You really want to delete your notes?"... If I press "yes", there is an error message "no delete function for undefined. Please, fix it(es. message error beacause I must restarting the script.

hello

many thanks for feedback. i fixed it.

great idea! It is certainly very useful, especially as you say, to write particular settings :) one point to ypu ;)