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Chapter 4: Customizing the Max Interface and Setting Preferences

Tip
Several quadmenus have keyboard shortcuts applied to them. Right-clicking with the Shift key held down opens
the Snap quadmenu. Other shortcuts include Alt+right-click for the Animation quadmenu, Ctrl+right-click for the
Modeling quadmenu, Shift+Alt+right-click for the reactor quadmenu, and Ctrl+Alt+right-click for the Lighting/
Rendering quadmenu. n
If the Show All Quads option is disabled, it causes only a single quadmenu to be shown at a time when
unchecked. Although only one quadmenu is shown at a time, the corner of each menu is shown, and you
can switch between the different menus by moving the mouse over the corner of the menu. This is useful if
you want to limit the size of the quadmenu.
The four quadrants of the current quadmenu are shown as four boxes. The currently selected quadmenu is
highlighted yellow, and its label and commands are shown in the adjacent fields. Click the gray boxes to
select one of the different quadmenus.
To add a command to the selected quadmenu, drag an action, separator, or menu from the panes on the left
to the quadmenu commands pane on the right. You can reorder the commands in the quadmenu com-
mands pane by dragging the commands and dropping them in their new location. To delete a command,
just select it and press the Delete key or select Delete Menu Item from the right-click pop-up menu.
If you right-click the commands in the right pane, a pop-up menu appears with options to delete or rename
the command. Another command allows you to flatten a submenu, which displays all submenu commands
on the top level with the other commands.
Custom quadmenus can be loaded and saved as menu files (with the .mnu extension).
The Quads panel also includes an Advanced Options button. Clicking this button opens the Advanced
Quad Menu Options dialog box, shown in Figure 4.7. Using this dialog box, you can set options such as
the colors used in the quadmenus.

FIGURE 4.7
The Advanced Quad Menu Options dialog box lets you change quadmenu fonts and colors.

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