On a related subject,
is there a PickElement and PickObject-like command in Maya ? Anyone knows ?

On 5 November 2014 10:56, Tim Crowson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Thanks Cesar,
>
> This is for use in a different app, which doesn't have any mechanism like
> pick sessions. Thanks for the direction, that makes sense.
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On 11/5/2014 12:38 PM, Cesar Saez wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Do you mean in a standalone program?
> If so, you have to compare the state of the "selection" in a while loop
> until there's a change, the tricky thing of this is that you would have to
> use threads in order to keep your software responsive during the loop.
>
> If your Qt tool is running within Softimage, you can simply rely on the
> SDK calling PickObject/PickElement command.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Cheers
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Tim Crowson <
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>
>>  Anyone have any ideas for how to recreate XSI's Pick Session behavior
>> using Python and Qt?
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