Hi Rage,

you could try CallCommand() with id 1019951 - calling this should delete all selected objects without deleting their children. Might also do what you're after?

WP.

Hi gogeta,

I'm not sure on ScaleBicubic(), but I noticed in your commented line:

//bitmap->ScaleIt(scaledBitmap, defaultBrightness, true, false);

That last 'false' flag, try changing that to true. If you're scaling in a non-proportional way that should be true (might fix your non 'squeeze' issue).

WP.

Do the GeUserArea sections display anything? Or are they just spacers?

A mock-up picture might help others to visualise.

How about a 'global' drag and drop function? So, make separate iCustomGui/GeUserAreas for each section. Then just point each of these to the same function held in the parent dialog? That way you only have to write the main drag/catch routine once, in the parent dialog.

Just a thought.

WP.

Hi folks,

I'm wanting to get various CTRL+X key presses in my dialog. I can get keys without the ctrl, and I can get the ctrl without keys, but I can't get any ctrl+key presses. In the dialog's Message() function I've tried variations like:

case BFM_INPUT:
{
BaseContainer KB;
GetInputState(BFM_INPUT_KEYBOARD,BFM_INPUT_CHANNEL,KB);
LONG qualifier = KB.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_QUALIFIER,NULL);
String input = msg.GetString(BFM_INPUT_ASC,"");
}

but none work. They key is always blank if control is pressed.

I've seen a couple of older posts that gave some suggestions, but nothing seemed to work.

Is there a particular way we have to do this? Or does it just not work for our own dialogs?

WP.

Thanks @ferdinand,

I'll use the KEY_WXYZ as you pointed out, if that's the correct usage, I should use it. And the python code you shared gave me an idea to convert the ASCII numbers to a String() as well. Things now seem to work the way I had intended them to.

I can appreciate not wanting to dig into old interface designs - it's what I'm attempting to rewrite at the moment!

Solved.

WP.

@ferdinand seems like we might be able to do this:

LONG asciivalue = msg.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_CHANNEL);

which will return the ascii value of the character. Instead of asking for the string, maybe this is a better way?

I probably confused myself on that line of code @ferdinanrd, that said, I've used both ways in previous plugins, and both seem to work. I don't know if it's just dumb luck, or if they built a fail-safe in so that if you pass the flag BFM_INPUT_CHANNEL it returns the value of the KEY_WXYZ instead? Or maybe GetInputState() also sets the BFM_INPUT_QUALIFIER flag (it seems to on mine..), and not just true/false for a particular key. Maybe Maxon could clarify for future reference?

I think the ascii route could work for me.

WP.

Hi folks,

I'm wanting to get various CTRL+X key presses in my dialog. I can get keys without the ctrl, and I can get the ctrl without keys, but I can't get any ctrl+key presses. In the dialog's Message() function I've tried variations like:

case BFM_INPUT:
{
BaseContainer KB;
GetInputState(BFM_INPUT_KEYBOARD,BFM_INPUT_CHANNEL,KB);
LONG qualifier = KB.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_QUALIFIER,NULL);
String input = msg.GetString(BFM_INPUT_ASC,"");
}

but none work. They key is always blank if control is pressed.

I've seen a couple of older posts that gave some suggestions, but nothing seemed to work.

Is there a particular way we have to do this? Or does it just not work for our own dialogs?

WP.

Hi @ferdinand,

I was wondering about dividing by the count as well. But not sure if that would work for tabs where there are different widths?

I'll have a think about the gui design and layout. It probably doesn't matter how it looks, so long as it works. Thanks for the QuickTabCustomGui tip as well, I had completely forgotten they existed!

I can probably live with the DIY bitmapbutton approach. It's still a tab system I guess, just not out of the box. But I can get a custom context menu for each 'tab' this way, so it kind of provides me with a solution, albeit with a bit more coding effort on my part.

You can set answer and mark as solved. If I have any follow-up questions I'll pop back in.

WP.

Thanks for your efforts @ferdinand, and no probs with the python code, I can interpret (I see a lot of that here now!).

I've tried all sorts of things (including some things from @ferdinand python code) but just can't seem to get a clean example going. So what I've done in the meantime, is to create a bunch of BitmapButtonCustomGui buttons and replace the TabGroupsBegin() with a normal GroupBegin() and just hide/unhide elements myself. It's not really ideal, as I've had to add a bunch of extra code to make this work, but it does kind of work the way I'm after. A right-click on the project 1 button brings up the project 1 settings menu:

@ferdinand not sure what you want to do with this topic. I'm happy for you to close it if it's easier. But if there is a solution that anyone does have using the standard TabGroupBegin() layout, I'd be really keen on seeing it.

WP.

Hi @ferdinand,

yep, option 1 was what I was looking at. I have a dynamic series of TabGroupBegin() tabs, and would like to open a context menu on a right-click on them.

I'd tried catching it in Command(), but it seems you can't test for mouse input there? Doing this inside the Command():

if(GetInputState(BFM_INPUT_MOUSE,BFM_INPUT_MOUSERIGHT,MB))
{
	if(MB.GetLong(BFM_INPUT_VALUE) == 1)
	{
		GePrint("Right-click menu found..");
	}
	else
	{
		GePrint("NOT found.");
	}
}

consistently returns "NOT found". I tried sending a Message() from inside Command() to the same dialog but that doesn't do it either. BFM_GETCURSORINFO will occasionally catch it, but you have to fiddle with the mouse to get the right catch.

Update edit: as an additional attempt, I tried GetItemDim() on the tab, but that returns the entire tab area, not the tab 'button' itself.

Seems like this is not really possible?

WP.

Hi folks,

is it possible to weave a way to catch a right-mouse click on a group of dialog tabs? C4D seems to have one when you click on tabs and other dialog-related areas. I'm referring to the menu that has "Undock" etc in it.

This menu doesn't appear in my dialog, so I'm hoping it means there's space for me to make one. I'd like to initiate a pop-up menu when the user right-clicks on one of the tabs.

WP.

Thanks @ferdinand,

I've been trying to remove a matrix math library from my software, but having never been taught any of this before (code that is), I was fumbling around in the dark on how to re-assemble things. But I've managed to end up with a blend of C4D and my own functionality, which is fine.

The image below probably won't mean much to you, but it tells me it's working correctly again.

We can probably mark as solved.

WP.

Hi @ferdinand,

sorry, I'm still trying to figure this out my end. What I'm trying to do isn't working, and I can't for the life of me see why.

By all means close if you need, 'tis not a problem.

WP.

Hi folks,

I want to build a perspective matrix using native Cinema objects. I read in the manual here that the first row in a Matrix4 is a "constant row vector at the top... which cannot be changed, due to the fact that Cinema’s transforms do not support projections".

Can someone educate me a little further on this. I just want to know if I can make a perspective matrix using Cinema's native Matrix4 object. But it sounds like we can't touch the first row at all? Is this really not possible?

WP.