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Toggle some basic actions - Macro Button cant be pressed

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#1

hello, I wanted to toggle some actions and after some research, i came up with this script, it seems logical but the macro is grayed out in Zbrush Ui and i can’t click on it, wondering if someone can suggest something in regard, much appreciation

//ZBRUSH MACRO - Recorded in ZBrush version 2022
[IButton,???,“Press to run this macro. Macros can be aborted by pressing the ëescí key.”,
[IShowActions,0]

[VarSet,action_1,“Brush:ZModeler”]
[VarSet,action_2,“Brush:Move”]

[VarSet,curBrush,[IGetTitle,Brush:Current Brush,1]]
[If,([StrFind,action_1,curBrush]==0)&&([StrFind,curBrush,action_1]==0),

[IPress,action_2]
,//else
[If,([StrFind,action_2,curBrush]==0)&&([StrFind,curBrush,action_2]==0),

[IPress,action_1]

,//else select first brush

[IPress,action_1]
]
]
,0.5]

#2

Hi,

Your macro has a comma missing before the button width (0.5). This is what is disabling the button. The end of the macro should be like this:

[IPress,action_1]
]
]
,,0.5]

Marcus

#3

hello Marcus, thank you for your response, as you highlighted indeed when adding that comma now the macro can be pressed, but i have a second issue that been the macro does nothing, the goal was to have a macro to switch between 2 brushes (Move-Zmodler) regardless of whatever brush is been used at the time. im assuming that i have something wrong in the macro somewhere!

#4

It works OK for me and I can’t see anything obviously wrong. Though you can simplify the code a bit:

//ZBRUSH MACRO - Recorded in ZBrush version 2022
[IButton,???,"Press to run this macro. Macros can be aborted by pressing the ëescí key.",
	[IShowActions,0]
	
	[VarSet,action1,"Brush:ZModeler"]
	[VarSet,action2,"Brush:Move"]
	
	[VarSet,curBrush,[IGetTitle,Brush:Current Brush,1]]	
	[If,([StrFind,action1,curBrush]==0)&&([StrFind,curBrush,action1]==0),	
		[IPress,action2]
	,//else		
		[IPress,action1]			
	]

,,0.5]

You don’t need to test if action2 is selected because you want to switch to action1 regardless.

I removed the underscores from the variable names. I think they are best avoided - I seem to remember them causing problems in the past, though they are OK in memory block names.

Are you using a hotkey or pressing the button? Also, you should have a model in Edit mode before using. (Again, although the brushes will switch it is best avoided.)

Marcus

#5

Oh, also make sure you are not using “smart quotes” around the button paths etc. The file should be plain text.

#6

I use underscore a lot, all i know is that it better to avoid them if the script is a macro, scripts and plugins are find with underscore in routines or variables names.

Hope it helps,
Nicolas

#7

Thank you Nicolas, your version of the script works just fine, its more simple i guess i was over complicating things, to answer your previous questions i was using the script both by mouse and with hotkey but no luck, eather way thanks again and have a nice day/night :pray:

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