Hello,

I have not been able to figure out how it would be possible for a startup script to get a list of MoI's commands that are referenced by the UI. In other words, all MoI commands other than the "Additional commands" like IncrementalSave, Rebuild, Flip, etc. Seems like I ought to be able to get there by walking though the SidePanePalettes but I haven't quite figured out how to do that. Or maybe there is a better way?

The reason I'm asking is because I'm tinkering with a script inspired by Scripts.menu.htm from Max’s CustomUI, but seeking to avoid all the hard coded command names. My preference is to stay with a fairly stock MoI UI, so I don't actually use CustomUI, I'm just using it as a starting example.

--Larry

Hi Larry,

re:
> Seems like I ought to be able to get there by walking though the SidePanePalettes but
> I haven't quite figured out how to do that. Or maybe there is a better way?

You could try the same way that Max's script menu does it which is by getting the commands folder using:

var dir = moi.filesystem.getCommandsDir();

And then you can iterate through all files ending in .js in that directory using:

var files = moi.filesystem.getFiles( dir, '*.js' );

Going through the buttons in the side pane would be something like this:

var buttons = moi.ui.sidePane.document.getElementsByTagName( 'moi:CommandButton' );

for ( var i = 0; i < buttons.length; ++i )
{
    var command = buttons.item(i).getAttribute( 'command' );
}

- Michael

Perfect, thanks as always Michael!!

--Larry

Hi Michael,

Well I replied a bit too soon... ;-}

So of the 62 buttons, there are 32 with command attributes 20 with commanset attributes, 7 with onclick attributes and 3 that are visibility:hidden. How would I go about finding the commands within the commandsets? Earlier I'd written a little script to dump the nodes of the moi.ui.sidePane.document, but I didn't find any hints about how to see the contents of the commandsets. I suppose I could parse the commands/*.xml files, but I'm guessing that MoI already has done that.

--Larry

Hi Larry, yes you would need to load the xml files and go through their contents. MoI does not do that itself on load, it's done dynamically on demand when a command set is triggered. Until it has been triggered the side pane nor Moi's main code does not yet know anything about the contents of it.

So enumerating *.js files in the commands folder may be a better method.

- Michael