[Maxscript] Color Picker - Click + changed event

Tools 3ds Max
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Hey all,

I was recently in a situation where I needed a colorpicker in 3ds max that had a click event and a changed event.
But the one in maxscript and dotnet do not allow me to do more then the changed event.

Anybody has a solution for this?

Cheers,
Robb

2

You could try something like the following:


rollout colorPickerButtonTest "ColorPicker-Button Test"

(


colorpicker theColor "" color:[0,0,255] modal:false width:200 height:200 pos:[5,5] enabled:false
button theButton "C" width:50 height:50 pos:[155,155]


on theButton pressed do 
(
	print "clicked"
	newColor = colorPickerDlg (theColor.color) "Pick A Color:" alpha:true pos:[100,100]
	theColor.changed(newColor)
)
on theColor changed nColor do (
	print "changed"
	theColor.color = nColor
	
	theButton.pos = theButton.pos -- force redraw
)



)

createDialog colorPickerButtonTest 210 210
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Eevans, I would have expected Nysuatro to be looking for a “changed” event inside the color picker. E.g., to get a real modeless color picker so that any changes inside the color picker would reflect realtime to the viewports (or so).

SamiV.

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Eevans, I would have expected Nysuatro to be looking for a “changed” event inside the color picker. E.g., to get a real modeless color picker so that any changes inside the color picker would reflect realtime to the viewports (or so).

SamiV.

In that case, I suppose that you could manually check the “theColor.color” attribute at some interval (using the technique described here http://lonerobot.net/?p=50) to see whether on not it has changed (rather than relying on the colorPicker control’s changed function). That said, I haven’t used DotNet w/ Max, so I’m not exactly speaking from expertise. : )