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Dynamically hiding or removing UI buttons for custom Zscripts

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#1

I noticed that it is possible to dynamically rename UI buttons through commands in the ZFileUtils. However I have found myself in need of Adding or Subtracting UI buttons and I’m not sure if this can be done…

Basically my script needs to crawl a specified directory and create a UI button for each OBJ found within that directory (it would also rename the UI button to the title of that same OBJ).

Preferably I would create and destroy buttons accordingly but if this is not possible I could always hard code say 100 buttons and then rename them after crawling the directory, this would leave me with a large number of unused buttons which need to be hidden so that the UI only shows Buttons tied to an existing OBJ.

Any Input on this would be greatly appreciated!

#2

The way to do this is like the font list for the Text 3D plugin or the ZCameras in the Draw palette. You can add/remove easily from the list. The ZFileUtils documentation for “Dropdown menu” shows you how to do it. There’s also a function for getting the files in a folder.