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| Five Ways to Improve your Plug-in's UI |
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The following is a list of five best practices for improving your plug-in UI design via the 3ds Max SDK. 1. Assure that your Combo Box Drop Down Window is Large Enough
You can call the global function
UpdateComboBoxDropDownWidth() once a combo box is initialized with data to assure that the
drop-down window will resize to fit the longest string.
2. Make your Dialogs Resizable
You can use the
DialogResizer class, to enable automatic resizing of dialogs. Normally you would create an instance of this
class in the Dialog procedure in response to a Windows WM_INITDIALOG message. See the sample "maxsdk\samples\controllers\exprctrl.cpp" for an example.
3. Leveraging the 3ds Max Color Scheme
The color scheme for 3ds Max can be customized for the user. Rather than hard-coding colors in your plug-in you
should try to use the 4. Use Assets instead of File Paths
Instead of using hard-coded file paths you should use an instance of the 5. Use the 3ds Max Standard Dialogs You should always use the standard 3ds Max open file, save file, and choose folder dialogs, to take advantage of the history drop-down. You can trigger these dialogs using the following methods: Interface8::DoMaxSaveAsDialog()
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