Thanks Paul, that is a huge help, I appreciate it
cheers
-todd
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, barnabas79 <elron...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Example usage of MDGContext:
>
> import maya.OpenMaya as om
> atTime10 = om.MDGContext(om.MTime(10))
> import maya.OpenMaya as om
> atTime10 = om.MDGContext(om.MTime(10))
>
> selList = om.MSelectionList()
> selList.add("pCube1.translateX")
> plug = om.MPlug()
> selList.getPlug(0, plug)
> print "Value now: ", plug.asDouble()
> print "Value at time 10:", plug.asDouble(atTime10)
>
> ...course, this isn't in a plugin, but I think the basic idea is the
> same.
>
> As for printing out more human readable names... I don't know of a way
> that works for all nodes / attributes / whatever, but:
>
> For an MObject: MObject.apiTypeStr() will give it's api type
> For an MFnDependencyNode (or inherited class): MFnDependencyNode.name
> () will give the maya name of the node
> For an MPlug: .name(), .partialName(...), and .info() can all return
> useful human-readable info
> For an MFnAttribute(): .name(), .shortName() give the attribute name
>
> - Paul
>
> On Feb 21, 6:26 pm, Todd Widup <todd.wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > so I am finally starting to take a stab at writing a plugin and ran into
> a
> > small block, mainly MDGContext. Anyone have advice on it, like a small
> > sample chunk of how it works.
> >
> > Also, someone told me that in the c++ api, there is a way to print an api
> > function that would print it's real node/attr/whatever, rather than the
> > pointer. Is there anything like this for the PythonAPI?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -todd
> >
>
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