Hi FiL, do you possibly have your "Program Files" folder on some drive other than the C: drive?

Right now there isn't any way set up for a script to know where MoI is installed, so this command just assumes that it is installed in C:\Program Files\MoI 2.0 , or C:\Program Files (x86)\MoI 2.0 .

So if you have it installed somewhere else (like on the D: drive or something like that) you'll need to edit the command so it can find the file. To do this, open the AssignPresetNameDialog.htm file up under notepad, and go to the spot that says:

if ( i == 0 )
    filename = 'c:\\Program Files\\MoI 2.0\\commands\\PresetNames.txt';
else
    filename = 'c:\\Program Files (x86)\\MoI 2.0\\commands\\PresetNames.txt';

And change the folder there to go to your actual "Program Files" folder, and then that should make it work. Note that in a script string, a \ character starts an escape sequence (like \t means a tab character), so you need to put in a double \\ to make an actual single \ character in a script string.

I've made a note to make a method available for scripts to call so they can know the folder where MoI.exe is running from so that when a script wants to load a separate data file like this it will be able to work more easily.


Let me know if that was not the problem.

- Michael

Hi Marco,

> hi there..
>
> i get this error..

That's a bug in the script file for the case where it could not read in the data file.

I've uploaded a new attachment to the previous message which should not give this error anymore, but to make it find the text file you probably need to edit the path to it in the AssignPresetNameDialog.htm file as described above.

- Michael

Hi Michael, sorry but it's not my case.

C:\Programmi\MoI 2.0\commands




I've controlled all the steps.
If the file .txt must be in commands folder, nothing is wrong... or
there is a allien intelligence inside my pc that....
Now I go to a pet shop and I buy a my Jojo!

FiL

Hi FiL,

> C:\Programmi\MoI 2.0\commands

Ah, but that is the problem, because the script is hard coded to look for it in

c:\Program Files\ (in English)

So you will need to edit the file as mentioned above. To do this, run notepad and open up the file AssignPresetNameDialog.htm and edit the line that says:

filename = 'c:\\Program Files\\MoI 2.0\\commands\\PresetNames.txt';

and change it to say:

filename = 'c:\\Programmi\\MoI 2.0\\commands\\PresetNames.txt';

Then it should work.

I've attached a version with it edited like that, if you copy the attached file over top of the previous one, does it then work for you?

I can probably figure out a way for the script to find that better, I'll take a look.

EDIT: This is fixed now in the updated version, it should find your machine's "Program Files" folder now.

- Michael

Hi Michael, that's good.
Now it works.

Thank you... and JoJo!

FiL

hi michael

i'm on D: as main drive..editing the AssignPresetNameDialog.htm did the trick..everything's working fine now..

best wishes,
marco

p.s. gsus, it must be around 4am in your area..i hope jojo doesn't mind :]]]..btw. jojo does look a bit like the Stanford bunny, doesn't she...you haven't got a Dragon lying around somewhere? :]]]
p.p.s. this would also be an appropriate work flow for assigning commands to shortcuts keys..like scanning the commands folder for available commands..

Hi Marco & FiL - I've figured out how the script can get your own system's "Program files" folder properly, and I've updated the original attachment again. But it sounds like you've got things working anyway.


@ Marco:

> p.s. gsus, it must be around 4am in your area..i hope jojo doesn't mind

Only 2am currently, JoJo kind of likes late night stuff, there is less chasing from toddlers.


> p.p.s. this would also be an appropriate work flow for
> assigning commands to shortcuts keys..like scanning
> the commands folder for available commands..

Yeah, but probably it needs more than that, I'd like to tune up the whole way that plug-ins are delivered so that you could go to a kind of plug-in browser that would connect to a repository on the web site and you'd be able to pick ones to download. Then they'd probably download to a central folder like moi.ini so you wouldn't need to re-install them during new beta releases or new version releases. Then that whole thing would be good to connect up with a list in the shortcut key editor as well.


> you haven't got a Dragon lying around somewhere?

I've got a little Dragon statue that is really similar to that one, but not any real Dragons though nope... :)

- Michael

Bonus JoJo picture - this is what we call "Chicken bun pose" because you get to see the delicious drumsticks:



- Michael

Oh my! JoJo isn't related to the playboy bunny by any chance? ;)

-

Hi Michael,

>I've figured out how the script can get your own system's "Program files" folder properly, and I've updated the original attachment again. But it sounds like you've got things working anyway.

I try the new vesion and yes it works.
Good.


>"Chicken bun pose"

Hum...she's looking for a Moment of Inspiration...

FiL

AssignName and AssignPresetName
work like a charm ! Bravo!
(so 2 new one to add to my Website :°)
http://moiscript.weebly.com/

Just a little question :)
Seem a same name can be assigned to different object!
like a cube is named jojo
and a sphere can be also named jojo
is that normal?

and another little : do you keep a list of scripts with date of creation?

In Windows French version we have also that!!! funny isn't it ? :)
c:\Program Files\ (in French)

Hi Pilou, great, I hope they will be useful!

> Just a little question :)
> Seem a same name can be assigned to different object!
> like a cube is named jojo
> and a sphere can be also named jojo
> is that normal?

Yup, that is intended that you can name objects whatever you want, including the same name for more than 1 object.

You can use that as one way to make clusters of objects - if you assign them all the same name then they will all be controlled by the same entry under the "Objects" section of the Scene Browser and that is also a way you can control making mesh objects at export time merged into larger mesh structures with the "Combine same named objects" option under Options > Import/Export.

What is it that you were expecting to happen if you named 2 objects with the same name, would it be better if MoI crashed if you tried to do that? ;)


> and another little : do you keep a list of scripts with date of creation?

Not currently, but in the future I want to make a kind of script repository type mechanism that would do that.

Petr has many of them collected here though:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/


> In Windows French version we have also that!!! funny isn't it ? :)
> c:\Program Files\ (in French)

With that last updated version this should work ok now with the "Program Files" folder being in your own language.

- Michael

< Petr has many of them collected here though:
I know that (because I made a sort of copycat of it :)

About the "same name" for different object : is that the same in Rhino ?

Hi Pilou,

> About the "same name" for different object : is that the same in Rhino ?

Yes, same thing in Rhino and many other programs. For example, I just tested in PaintShop Pro, Expression, and ViaCAD, and none of these have any problem with assigning the same name to more than 1 object.

It's just a label that you can assign as you wish to help you tag things.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

>It's just a label that you can assign as you wish to help you tag things.

And more than a single label assigned to a object?
Example: an object (first label) can be a part of a bigger structure (second label) inside a project (third label) = finger_hand_body.
In this way I can select the object trough 3 different tags...in order to select it on its own or with other objects.

FiL

""""""Chicken bun pose""""""""""""

I bet she drags around the floor like that!!!!

Hi FiL,

> And more than a single label assigned to a object?
> Example: an object (first label) can be a part of a
> bigger structure (second label) inside a project
> (third label) = finger_hand_body.

In V3 I want to add a mechanism for "Groups" which would enable this kind of hierarchical organization.

The basic idea is that a group would be a kind of container tag that would have a collection of objects and possibly other groups as its children.

Then the group would show up in the Scene Browser, either in its own Groups section or possibly just within the Objects section not quite sure yet, so you could manipulate it with the scene browser UI like hide/show/lock/select.

If you had nested groups then you would get a + symbol on different levels so you could expand and collapse them.

- Michael

Hi Michael can you script this one , or tell me which file to edit I give it a try thank you.

Hi lyes, it's not really possible to change the scene browser like that just with an external downloaded plug-in script, to alter things like that would require changes more directly to the scene browser mechanisms.

Also there are some difficulties with what you are showing, I'm not sure how certain things would work, I'll try to explain:



Re: Click to add selected to the named group - you're showing a color swatch there for each name. But the problem with implementing that is that there is no restriction for that name to only belong to a single object, it is possible for multiple objects to have that name and each of those objects can be assigned different styles. So there is not necessarily just a single color that is associated with a name, there can be multiple objects and therefore multiple colors associated with a name.

In the future I do want to add a kind of drop-down menu to each item with some additional actions on it, and one of those would be "Assign to this name". Until then the "AssignName" plug-in that was posted earlier in this thread can help out:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3830.4



re: Edit style - you can edit the color of a style currently by holding down Ctrl while clicking on its color swatch. That will open up a color picker so you can set the color.

Also another shortcut for editing a style is if you right-click on the style line in the Properties Panel:



That will pop up the "Edit style" dialog that lets you edit either the name or the color of the style.




re: Add style entry at the bottom of the list - there is already an entry for that on the style tools menu, to access it press this button here to launch the menu:



Then you will see the "Add new style" option on that menu, here:




It's also possible to set up a keyboard shortcut that will bring up the "Add new style" dialog box, to do that see this previous post:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2987.5


- Michael

Hi lyes, also re: having something show up when a particular item is selected - in v3 I'll probably be adding a selection indicator into the scene browser for that, most likely as a dot along the right-hand side of the entry. That would also probably be where you would click to do selection while clicking on the main text area will probably pop out a menu with some additional tools on it.

See this previous thread for some discussion on it:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3254.8

- Michael