Maxscript: Tabbed Panel UI Template

Tabbed_Panel.ms

--Creates a tabbed panel UI for complex maxscript tools.
--The concept for this script came from one of the great minds over at the CGTalk forum 
--but I cannnot for the life of me find the original post.  If you find it let me know.

global panelOne
global panelTwo
global panelThree

rollout panelOne "Panel Script Template" width:350 height:230
(

  checkbutton ckb1 "Panel One" pos:[4,10] width:68 height:20 checked:true
  checkbutton ckb2 "Panel Two" pos:[77,10] width:68 height:20 check:false
  checkbutton ckb3 "Panel Three" pos:[150,10] width:68 height:20 check:false
  GroupBox grp1 "" pos:[4,22] width:340 height:200

  button panelOneButton "This is a button on panel 1" pos:[10,38]

  --Basically telling the script to destory this rollout and open the selected rollout in its place.
  on ckb1 changed state do
  (
    ckb1.state = true
  )

  on ckb2 changed state do
  (
    local dialogpos = getdialogpos panelOne
    createdialog panelTwo pos:dialogpos style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
    destroydialog panelone
  )

  on ckb3 changed state do
  (
    local dialogpos = getdialogpos panelOne
    createdialog panelThree pos:dialogpos style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
    destroydialog panelOne
  )



)

rollout panelTwo "Panel Script Template" width:350 height:230
(

  checkbutton ckb1 "Panel One" pos:[4,10] width:68 height:20
  checkbutton ckb2 "Panel Two" pos:[77,10] width:68 height:20 checked:true
  checkbutton ckb3 "Panel Three" pos:[150,10] width:68 height:20 check:false
  GroupBox grp1 "" pos:[4,22] width:340 height:200

  button panelOneButton "This is a button on panel 2" pos:[10,38]

  --Basically telling the script to destory this rollout and open the selected rollout in its place.
  on ckb1 changed state do
  (
    local dialogpos = getdialogpos panelTwo
    createdialog panelOne pos:dialogpos style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
    destroydialog panelTwo
  )
  on ckb2 changed state do
  (
    ckb2.state = true
  )
  on ckb3 changed state do
  (
    local dialogpos = getdialogpos panelTwo
    createdialog panelThree pos:dialogpos style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
    destroydialog panelTwo
  )



)

rollout panelThree "Panel Script Template" width:350 height:230
(

  checkbutton ckb1 "Panel One" pos:[4,10] width:68 height:20
  checkbutton ckb2 "Panel Two" pos:[77,10] width:68 height:20
  checkbutton ckb3 "Panel Three" pos:[150,10] width:68 height:20 check:false
  GroupBox grp1 "" pos:[4,22] width:340 height:200

  button panelOneButton "This is a button on panel 3" pos:[10,38]

  --Basically telling the script to destory this rollout and open the selected rollout in its place.
  on ckb1 changed state do
  (
    local dialogpos = getdialogpos panelThree
    createdialog panelOne pos:dialogpos style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
    destroydialog panelThree
  )
  on ckb2 changed state do
  (
    local dialogpos = getdialogpos panelThree
    createdialog panelTwo pos:dialogpos style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
    destroydialog panelThree
  )
  on ckb3 changed state do
  (

    ckb3.state = true
  )

)


--Creates the window with a particular snazzy look.
function createMainWindow = (
createdialog panelOne style:#(#style_toolwindow, #style_sysmenu)
)

--Now create the window
createMainWindow()