Easier way to use character sets?

[LiquidStorm3D]

I'm not sure if I understood the question correctly, but there are a couple of ways to select the sets...

1. use the Sets button next to the range slider
2. use the outliner
3. in the Trax editor, turn on the Autoload or Autorefresh, forgot what it's called, but any time you select a new set, or multiple sets, it will load them up in the editor without having to manually make it visible.

I personally use the Sets button and keep the autoload on while I work with character sets.

[]-UnderTOW-[]

I'm talking about activating character sets, not selecting them. The only way to activate a character set is use the Set Current Character Set menu (also available near the range slider, the Set button you mentioned) and it is an atrocious menu. Esspecially when you have a character with multiple sub-character sets making up different parts of the body, having to dig through 3 menus and pick from 11 different characters/sub-characters (main character, left and right arm, left and right leg, left and right fingers, head, face, mouth and spine sub characters) each time i moved to a different part of the body, is an exceptional time waste and pain the arse. You can't even make that menu floating like you can any other menu.
As i said, i had to use zooTriggered to activated the specific character sets when you select controller objects.

I love maya, but this is simply terrible and hasn't changed since it was implemented (much like maya's horrible skin tools).

[isoparmB]

What's the command that gets executed whenever you select an item in the character set menu? You should be able to use that commands to come up with a mel script or at least a shelf button to activate subsets.

setCurrentCharacters( { "nameOfCharacterSet" } );

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