Layer Selection Buttons

[Stan]

This tool allows you to assign any layer in the project to a button for quick selection and visibility control.



Download link: http://mohoscripts.com/script/sz_layer_ ... on_buttons

[Víctor Paredes]

Ha! I love it.
Thanks, Stan!

[Daxel]

Thank you! It looks very handy. I love how Moho's community seems to be more active since the great news from Mike and Victor.

[Greenlaw]

That's pretty cool Stan. Downloading now.

From what I see in the video, Layer Selection Buttons reminds me of Wes' Layer Shortcuts. I like Wes tool because it lets me place my selection buttons right inside the workspace as part of my rig setup...visually, the result is intuitive and looks slick. But your approach seems easier and quicker to set up.

Between the two systems, there's something for everybody here!

@Moho's devs, in the future, I'd like to see Moho get a Button Layer. This can be a group layer where we add other Moho layers like Note (my preference with Wes' system) or a graphics layer that we can enable as clickable buttons to select other layers or to toggle 1-frame Smart Bone Actions or to toggle any keyframeable Moho properties. (Personally, I would mainly use the buttons to select Switch layers for the Switch Selection window.)

[Stan]

Yeah, I would love to see more opportunities for scripts - not just tools and buttons, but also panels, floating and dockable.

[SimplSam]

We definitely need scripting access to a new AdvancedDialog with all the features of the SimpleDialog plus support for additional Widgets like:

- Images (Bitmap/SVG) for panes and also panel backgrounds
- Graphical Views with freeform script drawable graphics
- Tabs (for improved dialog organisation)
- Audio sounds and effects? - maybe just for fun

All combined with the ability to process Mouse, Keyboard & Widget events of the AdvancedDialog, and Frame change events from the main timeline.

Recently I have been playing around with the QT widget UI toolkit - and the addition of an advanced dialog panel for Moho would literally open up so many new worlds, it has so much potential.

And yes - all Tools Panels should be truly Dockable (freely Drag and Dockable around the screen), with the added ability to save preferred workspace layouts. I have seen many requests for full Dockability. It is a popular and long requested feature.