Slider problem in Maxscript

[LFShade]

If I understand you correctly, you want to create a slider that is greater than the default height. Unfortunately, this is not possible with the slider object in Maxscript. What you can do, though, is to use an ActiveX slider. It's a bit more tricky to grapple with, but it does offer a bit more flexibility than the Maxscript one. Here's an example of how to create an ActiveX slider in Maxscript using the one available in the Microsoft Common Controls library*:

activeXControl ax_slider "COMCTL.slider.1" pos:[8,8]

This will generate the slider control, but it will be horizontal by default, as well as being the wrong size. To fix that, you'll need to make some post-creation adjustments. Do this by adding an on open handler to the rollout:

on <rollout name> open do
(
<rollout name>.ax_slider.orientation = #sldVertical
<rollout name>.ax_slider.size = [40,200]
)

This gives you a nice, tall vertical slider (you can change the height by using a different value in the size parameter), but it has a default range of only 0 to 10 - possibly not what you want. You can add a couple more lines to the open handler to fix this:

on <rollout name> open do
(
<rollout name>.ax_slider.orientation = #sldVertical
<rollout name>.ax_slider.size = [40,200]
<rollout name>.ax_slider.max = 100
<rollout name>.ax_slider.tickFrequency = 10
)

Now you have a 200-unit tall vertical slider with a range of 0-100 with ticks displayed every 10 units. Of course, you can change any of this by playing with the values that you pass in to the various parameters. When you need to get/set the value of the slider, just use <rollout name>.ax_slider.value!

Hope this gives you an idea or three:thumbsup:

-RH

*you will need to have MSCOMCTL.OCX installed for this example to work; I believe it is part of the Windows installation, but if not it is available from many places - just search on Google and you'll find it.

[LFShade]

Note that the example I give will actually work best in a rollout floater or dialog. For some reason the rollout on the utility panel is truncated in height in tests I have done, which can be worked around by adding other controls further down on the rollout. Just thought you should be aware of this :)

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