Empty Category in the User Interface

[huiblinden]

Hello,

For some reason we experience an empty Category in the User Interface Window. It also seem to contain invisible items.

Is there a way to find out where this is coming from and remove this Category.

We use " useUserProfiles=0" so removing the enu folder is not possible.

Any suggestions would be most helpful

[Swordslayer]

Interesting, never seen that happen. You might try running macros.list() in the maxscript listener to see if there are any empty or space-filled (or maybe unsupported character) category and item names (it also shows the path to the macroscripts so you can then remove/edit those).

[Anonymous]

I've actually encountered this as well. I have no idea what is causing it. I checked all the currently registered macros and they all check out.

[PiXeL_MoNKeY · Accepted solution]

So looks like Mitchell and I tracked it down to the Itoo Software plugins. They joy of tracking it down.

1. No "Edit Macroscript" open so probably a plugin function publishing item and not a Macroscript.
2. Add Button to a new Toolbar and Save Toolbar file.
3. Check Toolbar file for entry and found:

4. <Item typeID="2" type="CTB_MACROBUTTON" width="8" height="0" controlID="0" macroTypeID="3" macroType="MB_TYPE_ACTION" actionTableID="1840288899" imageID="-1" imageName="" actionID="-1253074912" tip="" label="" />

5. Run the code below:

6. actArr = for val in 1 to actionMan.numActionTables where (actionMan.getActionTable val).id == 1840288899 collect val
   for val2 in actArr do (
   	actTbl = actionMan.getActionTable val2
   	format "ActionTable:\nID: %\nName: %\nContextID: %\nContextName: %\nNumActions: %\n" actTbl.id actTbl.name actTbl.contextID actTbl.contextName actTbl.numActionItems
   )

7. Output:

8. ActionTable:
   ID: 1840288899
   Name: RailClone
   ContextID: 0
   ContextName: Main UI
   NumActions: 16

Removing plugins validated it was RailClone and Forest Pack Pro.

Hope that helps,

-Eric

[huiblinden]

Great work, some smart research !

I get the same result when I run your code. Time to contact Itoo Software about this 🙂