hi all, i'm trying to write a function using the maya API that reproduces the behavior of listConnections, and i'm getting tripped up on the type filter. All of the MIt classes take an MFn::type as a filter, but there seems to be no way lookup an MFn::type given a maya node type name, e.g. "transform" --> kTransform. worse still, there is not an MFn::type for every node type, so how do i go about searching for a specific custom node? for example, if someone passes in "myCustomNode" as the type i would imagine i would have to first determine that the MFn::type is kPluginDependNode. since filtering on kPluginDependNode will include all custom dependency nodes, i would then have to do a post-filter to test the actual node type. so on top of needing to know how to lookup MFn::types from node types, i also need to maintain a list of all the MFn::types like kPluginDependNode and kPluginDeformNode that will need additional post-filtering. please tell me there is a better way.
-chad -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
