How do I implement a digital copyright right window

[mark-griffiths]

Hi Guys

Im soon to upload a creature Rig and I have kindly been given the information to create a digital copyright window
for the character. Although I must admit my knowledge in this area is very limited, this was the expression I was given, and Im
really struggling. I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on the subject. as Im a little resigned to upload him without it.

It has been explained to me by a gentleman called Jack creator of the Teddy rig, but I am a real novice in this area.......

Hi Mark,
The "copyright window" you see when loading Teddy is a simple script like follows:

//to check if a window by the same name already exists
if (window -exists CowsTeddyWin) deleteUI -window CowsTeddyWin;

//create window
window -rtf 1 -s off -t "The Teddy Rig Version 1.16" -tb 0 CowsTeddyWin;

//window layout
columnLayout -adj 1;
  text -fn boldLabelFont "\nThe Teddy Rig";
  text "by C. J. Cow";
  text -fn smallPlainLabelFont "V.116\n";
  text "Comments & Suggestions Goto";
  text "KingLizard_J@hotmail.com";
  text -fn obliqueLabelFont "January, 2009\n";
  button -label "okay" -command "deleteUI -window CowsTeddyWin;

//window size
window -e -wh 240 150 CowsTeddyWin;
//call window
showWindow CowsTeddyWin;

To create your own expression, goto menu > window > animation editors > expression editor, and enter your own scripts there.
Hope that helps.

[joojaa]

I think you mean script node not expression (if you put it in a expression your going to bug the hell out of most users at some point). But yeah the input is done in expression editor so the target is the same. The solution is probably unnecessarily complicated. As putting the following in the script node would probably suffice:

confirmDialog -t "Copyright Notice" 
              -b "Okay" -m
("Your Rig v0.1\n"+
 "\n"+
 "Not as fancy as your example\n"+
 "But this is much simpler to\n"+
 "maintain.");

But no worries its pretty ok as it is.

PS: Theres actually nothing you can do to force maya users to see the copyrigt. They can just simply disable loading your copyright notice. And theres not much you can do about that. So copyright enforcemaent and setting the notice are 2 different things. Usually a copyright.txt in the zipped file  would do much the same thing. But yeah your choice.