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MCX A suggestion for MCX

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Hello, @arno !

It's been a quite some time now using your tools, especially MCX. It is a great tool! Thx!
However, I think it can be further improved in terms of user experience.
This is not a request but a suggestion, how the title says )

What I think you could do to improve interaction with MCX, mainly it comes down to Material Editor:

• TABS: for different sim, different tab with related settings;
• Expand/Collapse categories. Also would be great if opened/closed categories could be "saved" so when we'll open MCX next time, they will remain in the state we saved them;
• and last, it would be nice to arrange categories as they would look in 3ds max material window, I mean in the same order.

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And, of course, thank you for continued support of MCX, greatly appreciated!
Best regards.
 
Hi,

I use a standard .NET control for the property grid. it either sorts the attributes alphabetically or alphabetically within the categories (which are sorted alphabetically as well). So I don't think there is a way to sort them differently so that the order is more similar to 3DS Max. But the category names should match the groups in 3DS (at least for FSX I started that way).

For the tabs for different sims, why do you think that is more user friendly than the current dropdown box to select the sim version? I think functionally it is almost the same and personally I think a lot of tabs make the interface more cluttered.

I think adding a button to expand/collapse all should be possible. I am not sure how easy saving that state would be, I don't think the control natively supports that.
 
Hello again!
arno said:
I use a standard .NET control for the property grid. it either sorts the attributes alphabetically or alphabetically within the categories (which are sorted alphabetically as well). So I don't think there is a way to sort them differently so that the order is more similar to 3DS Max. But the category names should match the groups in 3DS (at least for FSX I started that way).
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ok, I understand
arno said:
For the tabs for different sims, why do you think that is more user friendly than the current dropdown box to select the sim version? I think functionally it is almost the same and personally I think a lot of tabs make the interface more cluttered.
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oh man, I must say that I've never knew there's a dropdown box for that - now I see... then there is no need to make tabs))) that's awesome

Thank you!
 
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