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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: 3dvisuals.co.uk on June 02, 2018, 12:30:12 PM

Title: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: 3dvisuals.co.uk on June 02, 2018, 12:30:12 PM
I've got plenty of experience with customising my toolbars in 3DS Max, but the Railclone and FPP Toolbars in 3DS Max 2019 cannot be hidden / disabled ?

I'm using 3DS Max 2019 (I don't recall having this problem in previous version, my last being 2017).

I uncheck them, I've saved and loaded the User Interface - and I've even deleted them !!!

And yet they still return !!

Please can you advise ?

I'm talking about the two seen on my attached image.

(my toolbar realestate is at a premium and I simply don't need these buttons around)
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: iToo on June 04, 2018, 08:43:05 AM
Hi, i apologize for the problems.

We had problems with the toolbars since we added them: they was not working correctly in Max 2017, in Max 2018 everything was fine, and now are broken again in Max 2019.
We have several support cases open with Autodesk about this, but without a solution until now.

Main problem is that system toolbars are not documented in the SDK, and there are not examples. I'm not sure if there is a problem in our code, or something is wrong in the Max side.
For example, we have not modified the code in latest releases, but it works fine in 2018, and not in 2019.

By now, i will include a flag in the configuration to disable the creation of toolbars at startup. At least you will can to disable them, to avoid this issue.

Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Shawn Olson on June 12, 2018, 04:33:59 PM
What flag do we set for turning this off? Or is it not yet available?
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: iToo on June 13, 2018, 01:54:03 PM
The flag is available in FP 6.0.9 (https://forum.itoosoft.com/announcements/forest-pack-6-pro-and-lite-released-5443/) (just released). You must add the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Itoo Software\DisableToolbars = 1 (DWORD value)

The flag turns off both the Forest and RailClone toolbar, but for RC it's necessary an update which will be released in the next days.

Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Shawn Olson on June 13, 2018, 02:09:29 PM
One more question: I do indeed use those toolbars... I'd just prefer they were left in the location where I last put them. I'm assuming that changing those keys does not remove the toolbars from Max, but instead just stops them from being reset every time Max is loaded?
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: iToo on June 13, 2018, 04:09:56 PM
Yes, the key just stops the plugin from creating the toolbar each time that Max starts.  If the toolbar already exists, is not changed.
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Shawn Olson on September 19, 2018, 03:48:56 PM
I finally got around to testing this registry fix. It did not work as expected. Instead, next time I launched Max, the toolbars were missing (and not just hidden, but actually missing from the toolbars list). Is there a function to run to create them?
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: iToo on September 20, 2018, 08:58:02 AM
No, sorry.

But if the default toolbars are causing too much problems to you, i would suggest to remove them and create your own "user" toolbar, from Customize->User Interface.
All commands used in the iToo toolbars are available in the "Forest Pack" and "RailClone" categories. User's toolbars should work fine.

Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Remco on March 04, 2019, 10:59:23 AM
Hi,

when i recreate the toolbar for Railclone, the Railclone lister doesn't stay on the toolbar.
when i restart it is removed. (also when you give a Hotkey assignd to it is removed after restarting max)

is this a known bug, or is this just me?

remco
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Michal KarmazĂ­n on March 04, 2019, 04:15:05 PM
Hi Remco,

Big thanks for reporting these problems - it'll be investigated more in deep by our main developers.

Best regards,
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: JP9586 on July 18, 2019, 01:00:54 PM
Still having this problem with Max 2019 and 2020. Unfortunately registry hacks are not allowed at my clients. Please fix!
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: iToo on July 18, 2019, 01:31:04 PM
Unfortunately we could not fix the problems with the toolbar in recent Max versions.
We contacted several times with Autodesk (there is litte documentation in the Max SDK about it), but not got a solution.

We suggest to disable the Itoo toolbars with the registry fix, and create your own user toolbar.
The registry just modifies the Forest Pack user configuration. It's not needed admin permissions, and doesn't touch anything from 3DS Max or Windows.
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Richard7666 on January 15, 2020, 06:51:48 AM
I can't seem to get the registry key to work?

I'm creating a new DWORD (32 bit) value with that name, in that location in the registry, and setting it to 1, correct?
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: iToo on January 15, 2020, 08:39:18 AM
I can't seem to get the registry key to work?

I'm creating a new DWORD (32 bit) value with that name, in that location in the registry, and setting it to 1, correct?

That's correct.
You also can find an attached file (DisableItooToolbars.reg) some posts above. Just download and run it, to create the key.

Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: MrpepeLepeu on September 03, 2020, 05:25:31 PM
How can I remove the toolbars completely without editing the registry?
The OP was in 2018. Please, tell me there's a reasonable solution for this.
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Rokas on September 04, 2020, 08:50:37 AM
Unfortunately the situation has not changed. We will check autodesk SDK documentation again to check if we can improve that.


Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Arqrenderz on May 18, 2021, 04:04:28 PM
Is this fixed on V7?
I read about the lack of documentation, but this plugin is one of the only ones that has this behavior, so can you talk with your peers? vray, corona and so on can give you a hand??
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: suppenhuhn on May 19, 2021, 09:43:24 AM
Having this issue as well - but for the first time!
I'm using Max 2019 - but the problem is only recently present. They're not reappearing but they're moving.

Since i made latest Updates to:
recently:
- RC & FP ( didn't noticed this issue after doing that )
latest all at the same day:
- Projectmanager ( Update to latest )
- Babylon JS Exporter ( Installed latest  )
- Windows cumulative Update KB5003173
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Rokas on May 19, 2021, 09:48:29 AM
That is not yet solved.
Temporary solution is to disable Itoo toolbars with regedit  (https://forum.itoosoft.com/forest-pro-(*)/cannot-disable-hide-rc-and-fpp-toolbars-they-keep-reappearing/msg21202/#msg21202)and create toolbar Yourself with required functions.
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Arqrenderz on May 19, 2021, 04:30:40 PM
But the toolbar is very important for me :(
Is there any hotkey or any way to have the forest lister without the toolbar ?
Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Rokas on May 19, 2021, 08:07:45 PM
Sure You can create that manually:


1 open customize User interface
2 choose toolbars
3 find "Forest Lister"
4 Drag it to the toolbar where You want it (or even create new toolbar Yourself with Your favorite functions)
5 Righclick to custsomize the button
6 choose Image Button
7 select fptoolbar group
8 select icon You like

(https://i.imgur.com/OygG95A.png)

Press OK.

Hope that helps.




Title: Re: Cannot disable / hide RC and FPP Toolbars - they keep reappearing.
Post by: Arqrenderz on June 01, 2021, 06:17:25 PM
THX Rookas! finally my viewport has returned!