Gui Graphics And Hot Boxes

Maya
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Question 1)Is it possible to build a large image with smaller images like you do in HTML and tables? I know that in theory this should be possible with row/columnLayout.

CODE
rowLayout -nc 3;
image1; image2;image3;
image4;image5;image6;
image7;image8;image9;
setParent ..;

Question 2) Building custom hotboxes. Is there a resource describing how to do this? I have read the MEL reference but it is lacking in detail on much of the flags and options. Is it then possible to bind a hotbox to a picture (see question 1) so that when you click it, it opens the hotbox.. much like a popupMenu.

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chk the hotbox command
http://www.autodesk.com/us/maya/docs/Maya8...nds/hotBox.html

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I checked out the Alias site. It is the exact same as the MEL reference files.

Is there a way to define your own labels ... below is a picture of what I am attempting to do:

the Define, Deformers, Rig, cmd, and cmd boxes are the hotboxes that appear after clicking on the image (button1) to activate the hotBox. Should I be looking into different methods than a hot box? Popup menus with the menus arranged in a certain way?

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oke then why u didt try marking menu .. that will work for you plz have try with marking menu

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I don't know if it's possible using mel. Marking Menus are menus and I don't think you can replace them by images. There is a plug-in which kind of does what you want to do, maybe it will help you a bit if you take a look at it:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/pl...a-6-7-3848.html

You are trying to build a pop-up window and not a marking menu or hotbox. Positioning the pop-up is quite tricky.

edit (I'm not reading the posts..., sorry)

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1)Is it possible to build a large image with smaller images like you do in HTML and tables? I know that in theory this should be possible with row/columnLayout.

Probably a gridLayout is the most appropiate.

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Question 2) Building custom hotboxes. Is there a resource describing how to do this? I have read the MEL reference but it is lacking in detail on much of the flags and options. Is it then possible to bind a hotbox to a picture (see question 1) so that when you click it, it opens the hotbox.. much like a popupMenu.

If you want to open the real hotbox then there's the hotBox command (hotBox -release closes it again, this is a bit problematic if you invoke the hotbox from something that is not a key)

to build only the star-like menus, you need to use the popupMenu command where the menuItems are positioned using the -radialPosition flag.

CODE
gridLayout -numberOfColumns 3 -cellWidthHeight 50 50;
image;
  popupMenu;
    menuItem -rp "N" -l "Top Label";
    menuItem -rp "S" -l "Bottom Label";
    menuItem -l "Additional Label 1";
    menuItem -l "Additional Label 2";
image;
  popupMenu;
    menuItem -rp "N" -l "Top Label";
    menuItem -rp "S" -l "Bottom Label";
    menuItem -l "Additional Label 1";
    menuItem -l "Additional Label 2";
image;
  popupMenu;
    menuItem -rp "N" -l "Top Label";
    menuItem -rp "S" -l "Bottom Label";
    menuItem -l "Additional Label 1";
    menuItem -l "Additional Label 2";

image;
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image;
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image;
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