Is there a way to get an open floater to open another floater (on a button pressed action)?

I keep getting a compile error with I simply have:

on sets_export_sets_button pressed do
(
createDialog modal_collada_rollout modal:true
) --end if want to export

I get “No outer local variable references permitted here: modal_collada_rollout “

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I searched the all-knowing-and-seeing internet and came up with this:

-- create several rollouts , save them in a dir .eg:
-- rollout xxx1 “xxx1” (button lanhaibo “lanhaibo1” )
-- rollout xxx2 “xxx2” (button lanhaibo “lanhaibo2” )
-- rollout xxx3 “xxx3” (button lanhaibo “lanhaibo3” )
--....
-- then save them as d:\test\test_1.ms .... test_2.ms .... test_3.ms

-- below is the new script to collect the old ones into a newRolloutFloater.
theOldRollouts = getfiles “d:\\test\\*.ms”—collect old rollouts .
for i in theOldRollouts do filein i—filein them .
newFloater = newRolloutFloater “collect old rollouts “ 200 400—create a new container.
addrollout xxx1 newfloater
addrollout xxx2 newfloater
addrollout xxx3 newfloater
--…

this came via : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=413386

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so then I took my rollout definition out to another file as the instructions say and changed my code accordingly to this:

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global bhg_xporterDials = #("$max\\scripts\\bhg_collada_shell.ms")—declare location of external dialogs

for d in bhg_xporterDials do
(
filein d
)

function add_collada_exporter =
(
ColladaFloater = newRolloutFloater “Collada Options” 552 232
addrollout modal_collada_rollout ColladaFloater

)—end add_collada_exporter function

AND LOWER DOWN THE FILE:

on sets_export_sets_button pressed do
(
add_collada_exporter()
) --end if want to export

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To which I get this error now: “No outer local variable references permitted here: add_collada_exporter”

I basically have a scripted utility that launches a floater, this floater needs to launch other modal floaters.

MB

It sounds like you mean this:
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rollout rollone “One”
(
button buttwo “Press for floater 2”
button butthree “Press for floater 3”

on buttwo pressed do
(
createDialog rolltwo 100 100 100 100 modal:true
)
on butthree pressed do
(
createDialog rollthree 100 100 200 200 modal:true
)
)
rollout rollTwo “Two”
(
)
rollout rollThree “Three”
(
)
createDialog rollone 450 400 10 10

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Have I got the wrong end of the stick?

The problem is, this does not work WITHIN A SCRIPTED UTILITY.

Which is what I need to do.

:(

MB

Remove any code you don’t want to show us and post the WHOLE utility with all rollout definitions so we can see what you are doing.
Obviously you have some scope issues, but it is difficult to fix without seeing what the scopes are. When in doubt, pre-declare any variables you are using in a higher scope.

Here is a simple example of a utility and a cascade of three dialogs:

Borislav “Bobo” Petrov

Thanks Bobo,

Ok, here is what’s going on, I took your code, verbatim, and saved it as “Bobo_floater.ms”

Then I wrote a utility (posted here) and saved said utility to scripts\startup:

When max launches I get the all familiar error:
-- Compile error: No outer local variable references permitted here: myTestRollout02
-- In line: createDialog myTestRollout02 1

changing the scope (to global) of the floater variables fixed the evaluation error. But nothing happens when I press the button “but_test”

so, I went ahead and played a bit with your code, to see if I could get it to work, and ended up with this:

This works wonderfully, so thank you so much for your help! it all stemmed from the fact that I did not know that I could make a floater declaration global by declaring an empty variable first.

Also, not that this is dire, but in the mess that I just made of your code, the close function no longer works.

Thank you so much

MB

Darned globals again!!

and this:

make it work!

Thank you so much!

MB