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Colors Panel 799
Group—
Displays a drop-down list that lets you
select the context you want to customize, such as:
Main UI, Track View, Materia l Editor, and so on.
Cate gory—Displays a drop-dow n list of the
available c ategories of user interface ac tions for the
selected context.
Action W indow—Displays all the available actions
for the selected group and category. To add an
action to a specific menu, select it and drag it to
themenuwindowontherightsideofthisdialog.
Right-clickanactioninthiswindowtoeditthe
macro scr ipt that defines this ac t ion (if there is
one).
Separator Window—Displays a separator line that
canbeusedtoseparategroupsofmenuitems.To
add a separator to a specific menu, select it and
drag it to the menu window on the right side of
this dialog.
Menu Wi ndow—Displays the names of al l menus.
Toaddamenutoanothermenu(showninthe
Menu List), select and drag it to the menu wi ndow
on the right side of this dialog. Right-click a menu
in this window to delete the menu, rename it, or
create a new, empty menu.
Menu List—Displaysthedefaultmenusaswellas
any new ones you create or load.
New—Displays the New Menu dialog. Enter the
name of the menu you want to create and click OK.
The new menu appears in the menu window on the
left side of the dialog as well as in the Menu List.
Delete—Deletes the item displayed in the menu
list window.
Rename—Displays the Edit Menu Item Name
dialog. Select a command in the menu list window
andclickRename.Thisdialogletsyouspecifya
custom name that will be displayed in the menu.
If you precede a letter in the custom name with
the “&” (ampersand) character, that letter will be
used as a menu accelerator.
Menu Wi ndow—Displays the menu options for the
menu currently selected in the menu list. To add
menus and commands (actions), simply select
and drag the options from the Action and Menus
windowstothiswindow.
Thereareseveralactionsavailablewhenyou
right-click any item in the menu window:
Delete M enu I tem—Removes the selected action,
separator, or menu from the menu.
Edit Menu I tem Name—Opens the Edit Menu Item
Name dialog. The Customize Name check box
must be on to edit the name. Enter the desired
name in the name text field and press OK. The
item’s name is changed in the menu, but not in
themenuwindow.Ifyouprecedealetterinthe
custom name with the “&” (ampersand) character,
that letter wil l be used as a menu accelerator.
E dit MacroScript—Opens the script for the selected
action in a MAXScript editor window.
Loa d—DisplaystheLoadMenuFiledialog.Allows
you to load custom menu files into your scene.
Save—DisplaystheSaveMenuFileAsdialog.
Allowsyoutosaveanychangesyou’vemadetothe
menus to a .mnu file.
Reset—Resets any changes you’ve made to the
menus to the default setup ( defaultui.mnu).
Colors Panel
Customize menu > Customize User Interface > Colors tab
The Colors panel of the Customize User Interface
dialog allows you to customize the look of the
software interface. You can adjust the colors for
almost every element in the interface, giving you
thefreedomtodesignyourownuniquestyle.
Thequadmenucolorscannotbecustomizedfrom
the Color panel. To customize quad menu colors,