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PEN
07-12-2008, 03:22 PM
I have had this on going problem for years and not really tried to look into it until now. I have a tool that allows me to set the fall off of a soft selection by scrubbing up and down in the viewport. It just stops working at some point, dont' know what causes it. I have always thought it was something in the macro as I wrote it years ago. Well it just happened again and it isn't the macro as I can write a simple tool like

tool foo
(
on mousePoint click no do
(
print no
)
)
startTool foo

and all it returns is #abort. Doesn't matter what mouse button I click and I know that this isn't based on mouse drivers as it has happened on many machines with different mice. Has any one seen this before? I need to restart to get it working again but once in a while deselecting and selection the mesh again will do it.
RobGalanakis
07-12-2008, 03:41 PM
Shouldn't the code be:

tool foo
(
on mousePoint clickno do
(
print clickno
)
)
startTool foo

I'm not having a problem with that code.
PEN
07-12-2008, 03:47 PM
Sorry yes it should, just typed it to fast. It still fails as it just happened again. Once again I have to restart. I'm doing piles of facial targets as well and adjusting the fallOff is something that I'm doing constrantly. What a pain, I hate using the UI spinner.
PEN
07-12-2008, 03:52 PM
Here is the actualy code

tool fallOffTool
(
local pMod=(modPanel.getCurrentObject())
fn calldrawText=drawText()
local stPos=[0,0]
local curPos=[0,0]
local oldyVal=0
on mousePoint clickNo do
(
case clickNo of
(
1:
(
stPos=viewPoint
-- registerRedrawViewsCallback calldrawText
)
2:
(
-- unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback calldrawText
#stop
)
)
)
on mouseMove clickNo do
(
case clickNo of
(
2:
(
curPos=viewPoint
yval=((stPos.y-curPos.y)*.05)
pMod.fallOff+=(yval-oldyVal)
oldyVal=yval
)
3: #stop
)
)
-- on mouseAbort clickNo do
-- (
-- #stop
-- unRegisterRedrawViewsCallback calldrawText
-- )
)
startTool fallOffTool

I just tried commenting out the mouseAbort handler and it killed it on second try this time.
RobGalanakis
07-12-2008, 04:41 PM
Just to be sure how this is supposed to work:

I 'startTool', then click and drag in the viewport, and it changes the falloff of my currently selected poly object, yah? When I let go of the button, the tool finishes. Tried with both Editable Poly and Edit Poly, it seems to work perfectly.

Is it possible there is a name/variable/scope conflict somewhere in your code or scene that is interfering with this?
PEN
07-12-2008, 05:47 PM
Might be but not sure where. Also it doesn't happen right away, you need to just keep using it. For instance I have now been working for quite a while without issue. But some times it just does. Not sure where the scope problems would come in as it is all local.
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