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Hi Frederick, try this:

script:moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.mode = 'front';

- Michael

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Hi Michael,

That was simple.

Thanks.

But it seems "back" is not a valid value.

So is there a way to get a non-toggling back script?

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

re:
> So is there a way to get a non-toggling back script?

The script above should do that.

script:moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.mode = 'front';

That will set the view tab to this one without flipping it:



Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by "non-toggling" ?

- Michael

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I use this on ver 4
script:moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.reverseView( moi.ui.getActiveViewport().name );
It works on whichever view the mouse is over
cheers
shayne

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Hi,

The script I posted that had "reverseView" in it toggled between, in this case, front and back.

You posted this:

script:moi.ui.mainWindow.viewpanel.mode = 'front';

I wanted a script that would always and only change to front view AND a script that would always and only change to back view.

Your script seems to change to the "button" which does the front/back toggle without setting the "button" to front.

Thanks.

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

> I wanted a script that would always and only change to front view AND a script that
> would always and only change to back view.

Sorry, I thought that the "not toggle" part meant to not change between front and back.

Do the "Set front view" and "Set back view" scripts from here do what you need? :
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3808.2

- Michael

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Hi Michael,

But they will toggle between, say, front and back.

Is there a script that will change to the correct tab AND select a specific view - such as front - without toggling to back on the next running of the script?

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

re:
> Is there a script that will change to the correct tab AND select a specific view - such
> as front - without toggling to back on the next running of the script?

The "Set front view" and "Set back view" scripts from here do that:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3808.2

- Michael

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Hi Michael,

The names of the view, "Front", "Back", etc. are case sensitive.

I did not know that until now.

I had lower case names and the script still shifts to the correct tab but then it just toggles between the two options, like front and back.

It is clearly recognizing "front" because trying "xront" yields an error.

Why does a lower case name result in the toggling whereas an upper case name does not?

Curious stuff.

Thanks.

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

re:
> Why does a lower case name result in the toggling whereas an upper case name does not?
>
> It is clearly recognizing "front" because trying "xront" yields an error.

The error when using 'xront' is reported as an invalid function argument in the call to vp.reverseView().

I think the problem is something like one part of the script (the == operator) requires an exact case match with what is returned from viewpanel.mode while the parameter in the function call to reverseView() can tolerate different cases.

Do the scripts at https://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3808.2 do what you wanted?

- Michael

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Hi Michael

Yes all is good.

The problem was my use of all lower case names instead of having the first letter a capital.

Perhaps a code fix is in order so the case of the names doesn't matter so the scripts in all cases work as intended.

Thanks.

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

re:
> Perhaps a code fix is in order so the case of the names doesn't matter so the
> scripts in all cases work as intended.

That's something that would need to be fixed in the script.

Where your script is calling if ( a == b ) that's going to be a case sensitive comparison, that's how the Javascript == operator works with strings.

If you want it to be case insensitive you could do something like if ( a.toLowerCase() == b.toLowerCase() ) instead.

- Michael

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Hi Michael,

Understood about the behavior of ==.

But I was referring to this:

"while the parameter in the function call to reverseView() can tolerate different cases"

Why is it desirable that that function isn't case sensitive.

Not a big deal, just curious.

Frederick

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Hi Frederick,

re:
> Why is it desirable that that function isn't case sensitive.

It's a general design goal for the script API to try to do something with what it is given if it can reasonably figure it out.

- Michael

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