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Feb '02

Hi, I am trying to get a scriptJob to execute whenever the user changes the view window they're working in. ie as soon as they click from "top" to "side" I want to execute a scipt that changes which object is selected.

They say in the documentation that for a -conditionChange query one may use a "user-defined boolean condition" but there is no indication how I could do this?

This command:
scriptJob -conditionChange (getPanel -withFocus==$panel) "updateSelWind";

has this result:
// Error: Could not find condition or event named "0" //

obviously its converting the stuff in brackets immediately rather than considering it later when its time to execute the scriptJob.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ken Goulding.

withnail
Feb '02

I figured that I probably had to create a "condition" for the scriptJob. That seems simple enough, but I didn't have any luck when I tried it...

condition -s "focuscondi" FocusChanged2;
global proc int focuscondi()
{
global string $panel;
$panel=getPanel -withFocus;
return (isTrue (getPanel -withFocus==$panel));
}
scriptJob -conditionFalse FocusChanged2 "fred";

withnail
Feb '02

Just in case anyone's interested, I worked through it - and actually read the instructions properly.

My condition wasn't executing because I hadn't told it what to depend on. Right now I'm using "idle" as the dependent condition so it checks continually. Works fine:

"condition -s "focuscondi" -d idle FocusChanged5;

14 years later
volodya
Mar '16

Thanks man. Its very usefull for me now! When you wrote this I was in 8th grade and didnt hear anything about maya 6 years after this

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