Chapter 16. Making Advanced Dialog Boxes with Web Panels

In this chapter you will learn

  • What you need to know before proceeding to make dialog boxes with web panels.

  • What web panels are, and why you would choose to use them.

  • Where to go for the information you need to learn to author web pages.

  • How a dialog box built with web panels works.

  • How to plan and build a dialog box using web panels.

  • How to create the HTML for your web panel user interface.

  • How to launch the dialog box you’ve created from within a MEL script.

  • Ideas for things to try with web-based dialog boxes in Maya.

What You Need to Know Before You Proceed

Making dialog boxes using web panels is a powerful, new feature in Maya 6 that will appeal most to MEL scripters who already know the tools ...

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