Pedro Santos

I've searched the forum before and couldn't find much information about it.

Has anyone been able to make a UI contextual menu in Max? Depending of where you're right-clicking bringing a menu (for instance, on a dial to apply a MIDI learn function)?

In my poor atempt, I tried to put a transparent umenu in toggle mode in front of a dial, but only the frontmost object responds. Is there a way to share the mouse clicks with other non-frontmost objects? "Ignore click" doesn't do it, I want the two objects to respond to the click actions...

I guess it would be useful to have another object property like "react to clicks even when not on top".

Hello.
I've searched the forum before and couldn't find much information about it.
Has anyone been able to make a UI contextual menu in Max? Depending of where you're right-clicking bringing a menu (for instance, on a dial to apply a MIDI learn function)?

In my poor atempt, I tried to put a transparent umenu in toggle mode in front of a dial, but only the frontmost object responds. Is there a way to share the mouse clicks with other non-frontmost objects? "Ignore click" doesn't do it, I want the two objects to respond to the click actions...
I guess it would be useful to have another object property like "react to clicks even when not on top".

contextual-menus-in-presentation-mode-anyone

Hi. Here is a quick workaround using the "hidden" message :

Thank you very much for your responses, Inear, Andrew and jvkr. I haven't used the "hover" object before.

But, when I tried your examples, the result was not the intended one. I would like for both objects to work: the dial should respond to a left click AND the contextual menu should activate with a right-click.

So, I'll try to reformulate the question: Is it possible for objects layered on top of each other to all of them respond to a mouse click at the same time?

Thank you very much for your responses, Inear, Andrew and jvkr. I haven't used the "hover" object before.
But, when I tried your examples, the result was not the intended one. I would like for both objects to work: the dial should respond to a left click AND the contextual menu should activate with a right-click.

So, I'll try to reformulate the question: Is it possible for objects layered on top of each other to all of them respond to a mouse click at the same time?


Contextual Menus in presentation mode, anyone?