rollout.controls property?! Can't make it work!

By pacermike · 2009-12-24

Description

Does anyone know how the rollout.controls property works? The help file says it'll return an array of all the controls in the rollout but I can't get it to recognize any of my rollouts.

In this code I'd like to collect all the controls in the rollout called eyeLidL but every time I try something like print eyeLidL.controls to access the property of the rollout it tells me that .controls is an unknown property of "undefined". But I thought eyeLidL was defined by rollout:eyeLidL? What gives?

Can anyone give me an example of how to use this property and how to get access to the rollout?

Here's my code just for reference:


attributes LeftEye
(
	function ModifyOtherSpinners my_index val old_values spinners checks =
	(
		diff = val-old_values[my_index]
		
		for i = 1 to old_values.count do
		(	
			if i != my_index do
			(
				if checks[i].checked do spinners[i].value = spinners[i].value + diff			
			)
		)

		old_values[my_index] = val		
	)
	
	parameters eyeLidL rollout:eyeLidL
	(
		topLid_test3 type:#float UI:topLidSp_test3
		topLid_test4 type:#float UI:topLidSp_test4
		compress_test1 type:#float UI:compressSp_test1
	)

		rollout eyeLidL "Left Eye Lids" 
		(
			checkbutton topLidCh3 "" highlightColor:[255,217,7] height:16 width:16 align:#left offset:[-14,0] across:3
			spinner topLidSp_test3 "" range:[-1,1,0] scale:0.1 align:#left offset:[-45,0] fieldWidth:30 
			label label1a "Top Open Close" align:#left offset:[-47,0]
			
			checkbutton topLidCh4 "" highlightColor:[255,217,7] height:16 width:16 align:#left offset:[-14,-5] across:3
			spinner topLidSp_test4 "" range:[-1,1,0] scale:0.1 align:#left offset:[-45,-5] fieldWidth:30 across:2
			label label2a "Bottom Open Close" align:#left offset:[-47,-5]
			
			checkbutton topLidCh5 "" highlightColor:[255,217,7] height:16 width:16 align:#left offset:[-14,-5] across:3
			spinner compressSp_test1 "" range:[-1,1,0] scale:0.1 align:#left offset:[-45,-5] fieldWidth:30 height:30 across:2
			label label3a "Compress" align:#left offset:[-47,-5]
			
			local old_values = #( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 )
			local spinners = #( topLidSp_test3, topLidSp_test4, compressSp_test1 )
			local checks = #( topLidCh3, topLidCh4, topLidCh5 )
			
			on topLidSp_test3 changed val do ModifyOtherSpinners 1 val old_values spinners checks
			on topLidSp_test4 changed val do ModifyOtherSpinners 2 val old_values spinners checks
			on compressSp_test1 changed val do ModifyOtherSpinners 3 val old_values spinners checks
	)
)

Thanks for any help. I've been struggling with this all week!

Comments (3)

pacermike · 2009-12-29

Awesome, these examples are super useful. Thanks again!

Anubis · 2009-12-25

Hi Pacermike and Marry Christmas!
You found yet, but im sure in the reference has topic about, rollout.controls realy returns an array, see axample below.


rollout test "test"
(
	label L01 "Hello World!"
	button B01 "Show It!"
)

test.controls
--> #(LabelControl:L01, ButtonControl:B01)

cNames = for i in test.controls collect i.name
--> #("L01", "B01")

classOf test.L01 --> LabelControl
classOf test.B01 --> ButtonControl
superClassOf test.L01 --> RolloutControl
superClassOf test.B01 --> RolloutControl
test.L01.name --> "L01"
test.L01.text --> "Hello World!"

pacermike · 2009-12-25

Holy smokes! I GOT IT, it's a Christmas miracle!!!

The answer was here:

http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/general-scripting/update-button…

Thank you Anubis!


attributes LeftEye
(
	local contArray -- I had to declare it as a local here
	
	function ModifyOtherSpinners my_index val old_values spinners checks =
	(
		diff = val-old_values[my_index]
		
		for i = 1 to old_values.count do
		(	
			if i != my_index do
			(
				if checks[i].checked do spinners[i].value = spinners[i].value + diff			
			)
		)

		old_values[my_index] = val		
		
	)
	
	parameters eyeLidL rollout:eyeLidL
	(
		topLid_test3 type:#float UI:topLidSp_test3
		topLid_test4 type:#float UI:topLidSp_test4
		compress_test1 type:#float UI:compressSp_test1
	)

		rollout eyeLidL "Left Eye Lids" 
		(
			checkbutton topLidCh3 "" highlightColor:[255,217,7] height:16 width:16 align:#left offset:[-14,0] across:3
			spinner topLidSp_test3 "" range:[-1,1,0] scale:0.1 align:#left offset:[-45,0] fieldWidth:30 
			label label1a "Top Open Close" align:#left offset:[-47,0]
			
			checkbutton topLidCh4 "" highlightColor:[255,217,7] height:16 width:16 align:#left offset:[-14,-5] across:3
			spinner topLidSp_test4 "" range:[-1,1,0] scale:0.1 align:#left offset:[-45,-5] fieldWidth:30 across:2
			label label2a "Bottom Open Close" align:#left offset:[-47,-5]
			
			checkbutton topLidCh5 "" highlightColor:[255,217,7] height:16 width:16 align:#left offset:[-14,-5] across:3
			spinner compressSp_test1 "" range:[-1,1,0] scale:0.1 align:#left offset:[-45,-5] fieldWidth:30 height:30 across:2
			label label3a "Compress" align:#left offset:[-47,-5]
			
			local old_values = #( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 )
			local spinners = #( topLidSp_test3, topLidSp_test4, compressSp_test1 )
			local checks = #( topLidCh3, topLidCh4, topLidCh5 )
			
			on topLidSp_test3 changed val do ModifyOtherSpinners 1 val old_values spinners checks
			on topLidSp_test4 changed val do ModifyOtherSpinners 2 val old_values spinners checks
			on compressSp_test1 changed val do ModifyOtherSpinners 3 val old_values spinners checks
	
			on eyeLidL open do -- and then I got it to execute here!
			(
				contArray = eyeLidL.controls
				print contArray
			)
	)
)

So, this is not what I wanted the array for at least now I know how to access it. Sweet!

This is what it returned:

CheckButtonControl:topLidCh3
SpinnerControl:topLidSp_test3
LabelControl:label1a
CheckButtonControl:topLidCh4
SpinnerControl:topLidSp_test4
LabelControl:label2a
CheckButtonControl:topLidCh5
SpinnerControl:compressSp_test1
LabelControl:label3a

OK