Did you solve this or anyone knows how to get the MPlug from the alias name in a MFnDependencyNode? Also I've tried with getAliasAttr but I don't know what to do with the returned MObject.
Thank you! On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey all - so, I have an alias which refers to an multi-compound attribute: > > import maya.cmds as cmds > > remap = cmds.createNode('remapValue') > > cmds.aliasAttr ('alfred', remap + '.value[0].value_Position') > > print cmds.aliasAttr(remap, q=1) > > > So far so good. Now, using the api, and starting with just the alias name, > I want to be able to get an MPlug for the plug it points to. > Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do this. The obvious way - using > MFnDependencyNode.findAlias - only gives me a plug for the base attribute, > not the specific index / child the alias actually refers to: > > > import maya.OpenMaya as om > > > sel = om.MSelectionList() > > sel.add(remap) > > > obj = om.MObject() > > sel.getDependNode(0, obj) > > mfn = om.MFnDependencyNode(obj) > > > attr = om.MObject() > > mfn.findAlias('alfred', attr) > > plug = om.MPlug(obj, attr) > > > print plug.partialName(True, True, True, False, True, True) > > > > However, what we end up with is remapValue1.value, not > remapValue1.value[0].value_Position > > > Should I just be using getAliasList, and then feeding the text string into > an MSelectionList? If so, what's the point of findAlias? > > > - Paul > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
