Hiding all the references plans layers

[Anonymous]

Hello, somebody could help me?

I try to develop a maxscript very simple but I don't understand definitely maxscript.

The purpose is to make a simple script which can hide all the layers who's name begin by "ref".
For example an active/inactive button which can show/hide all the "references plans" with similar names as:
"ref layer a"
"ref layer b"
"ref layer c"

For now, I just have this part of code but it's just hiding the layer named "ref" and not all the layers with "ref" in the name:

(
(layerManager.getLayer 0).current = true
rfp= "ref"
for L = 1 to LayerManager.count do
(
layer = (LayerManager.getlayer (L-1))
if layer.name == rfp then layer.ishidden = true
)
)

Thanks for advance for your help!

[Anonymous]

Maybe this is what'll do teh trick?

-- Toggle layer visibility
fn tglLayer prefix splitChar:" " =
(
    local mng = layerManager
    
    for i = 1 to mng.count - 1 where (filterstring (local layer = mng.getLayer i).name splitChar) == prefix do
    (
        if layer.isHidden then
        (
            layer.isHidden = False
        )
        else
        (
            layer.isHidden = True
        )
    )
)

/*

    tglLayer "ref" splitChar:" " -- where layer name is similar to "ref blah blah"
    tglLayer "ref" splitChar:"_" -- where layer name is similar to "ref_blahdi_blah"
    
    splitChar is basically the search string for filterString()
    if splitChar is unsupplied it defaults to using " " which is what YOU want it seems =)

*/

BR
MrK

Edit: Made layer var local

[Anonymous]

WOW !!! What's a GREAT place !
Thanks a lot for this function and for your quickly help !