Interface: UtilityPanel

Interfaces >Core Interfaces > UtilityPanel

This Core Interface lets you open and close Utility Plug-ins in the Utilities Tab.

Methods:

<integer>UtilityPanel.OpenUtility <class>ClassName

Switches the control panel to the Utility Panel and opens the specified utility.

<integer>UtilityPanel.CloseUtility()

Closes a modal (bound to panel) utility. Does not close modeless utilities.

If the Utilities tab is currently not displayed in the Command panel, the utility will still be closed.

Returns true if successful, false if not.

EXAMPLE

--Open the MAXScript utility in the Utilities panel
UtilityPanel.OpenUtility MAXScript
True
--Close any utility currently open in the Utilities panel
UtilityPanel.CloseUtility()
OK

To get an array of the installed utility classes, use utilityplugin.classes

EXAMPLE

--Print the available utility classes to the Listener
print utilityplugin.classes
MAXScript
Surface_Approximation
Level_of_Detail
Asset_Browser
IFL_Manager
COM_DCOM_Server_Control
Camera_Tracker
Visual_MAXScript
Strokes
Lightscape_Materials
Follow_Bank
Resource_Collector
Polygon_Counter
RayFX
Dynamics
UVW_Remove
Camera_Match
Measure
Assign_Vertex_Colors
MAX_File_Finder
Motion_Capture
Shape_Check
Reset_XForm
Color_Clipboard
ASCII_Object_Output
Bitmap_Photometric_Path_Editor
Rescale_World_Units
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