Add note to material library

This is great!
But if I use example#2 and at a later time wan't to access the note how do I do that? I tried a few ways but I can't seem to get it to work.

Thanks so much for your help!

What do you try?

First I add the ca to the material, then I add it to a matlib and saves it. At a later time I wan't to load that matlib and access the note and print it to a edittext

I'm trying to access the note with custAttributes.get mat materialNote but all I get is undefined

Thanks

Let's say you put material from the library which already have note inside to material slot 3.
Now to get note simply use

meditMaterials[3].mtlNote.note

If you assigne that material to en object (Box001 for example) then you can use

$Box001.material.mtlNote.note

And to set new note just do

$Box001.material.mtlNote.note = "This is my new material"

That was easy! Thanks again!

Thanks for the reply!
I'm going to look at it today.

Also you can add new rollout inside any material

--CA definition
materialNote = attributes mtlNote
(
parameters notesParm rollout:notesRoll
(
note type:#string ui:et_note
)
rollout notesRoll "Material Note"
(
edittext et_note height:100
)
)
-- example (you can use any material from ME, from object, from library)
mtl = meditMaterials[1]
-- the next line will assigne new rollout to material only if not exists
if not (isProperty mtl #mtlNote) do custAttributes.add mtl materialNote
-- now you can get/set some text
mtl.mtlNote.note = "Standard gray material"
--or if you want to extend existing note
mtl.mtlNote.note += "\nStandard gray material"
-- open material editor and look "Material Note" rollout inside first matrial.

-- define and store note in variable
txt = "This is a custom material note text.\nCheck similar example in MXS Help."
--define custom attributes to hold main function
materialNote = attributes mtlNote
(
fn getNote = (format "Note: %\n" txt)
)
-- example (you can use any material from ME, from object, from library)
mtl = meditMaterials[1]
--assigne CA to material
custAttributes.add mtl materialNote
---------------------------------------------------------
-- now to get note you need first to get material CA
ca = custAttributes.get mtl materialNote
-- then check if ca exists but if not send a message
if ca != undefined then ca.getNote() else messageBox "This material not have any note!" title:"MaterialNote" beep:off