Dock Question - MEL

CreativeSheep

I have a question, I'm trying to dock the outliner panel in Maya; most of the syntax I find online mention; outlinerWindow, but the docs only mention outlinerEditor & outlinerPanel which do I use when it comes to docking a panel ?

Please don't direct me to a page with code for any MEL or Python questions I have now or in the future. I want to learn RAW it may be frustrating, but it's the method I prefer.

throttlekitty

I think you query the name of the window and set that to a variable using the getPanel command. The actual name (think of it like an ID) can vary between scenes and whether or not it's docked or torn off.

I know you want to learn it raw, the examples at the bottom of this one are... kind of minimal (lol), so no worries about spoiling yourself.

CreativeSheep

throttlekitty - that helps, what is the command to dock the panel ?

By the way, you just have to give the name of the command in bold, I have some local docs I prefer to use, instead, as I said, I want to keep things RAW

throttlekitty

good luck with that.

try dockControl

CreativeSheep

throttlekitty wrote: »

good luck with that.

try dockControl

dockControl, docks the outliner, yes, not as the official outliner is there not another command for docking torn away windows ?

Deadly Nightshade

global proc dev_outlinerMenuItem(){
	global string $gMainWindowMenu;
	string $mayaWindowMenu[] = `menu -q -ia $gMainWindowMenu`;
	int $i = 0;
	while ($i < `size $mayaWindowMenu`){
		string $target = "MayaWindow|" + $gMainWindowMenu + "|" + $mayaWindowMenu[$i];
		if (`menuItem -q -l $target` == "Outliner")
			menuItem -e -c "dev_dockOutliner" $target;
		$i++;
	}
}

global proc dev_dockOutliner(){
	if (!`window -q -exists dev_outlinerDockWindow`){
		window
			-widthHeight 300 1000
			-t ""
			dev_outlinerDockWindow;
		frameLayout -parent dev_outlinerDockWindow
					-mh 0
					-mw 0
					-bv on
					-lv off
					dev_outlinerDockFrame;
	}

	if (!`dockControl -q -ex dev_outlinerDockControl`){
		dockControl -label "Outliner"
					-area right
					-allowedArea "right"
					-width 300
					-content dev_outlinerDockWindow
					dev_outlinerDockControl;
	} else {
		dockControl -e -vis 1 dev_outlinerDockControl;
	}

	if (!`outlinerPanel -q -exists dev_dockedOutliner`){
		outlinerPanel -parent "dev_outlinerDockFrame" dev_dockedOutliner;
	} else {
		panel -e -parent "dev_outlinerDockFrame" dev_dockedOutliner;
	}

	global int $dev_dockedOutlinerFix;
	if (!$dev_dockedOutlinerFix){
		$dev_dockedOutlinerFix = 1;
		scriptJob -cu true -pro -e "PostSceneRead" "dev_dockOutliner";
		scriptJob -cu true -pro -e "NewSceneOpened" "dev_dockOutliner";
	}
}
dev_dockOutliner;

You are welcome!

CreativeSheep

Whoa, too much code. I asked if there was another command other then dockControl because when I docked the outliner as a docked control, it was not identical to the vanilla outliner and I was wondering why is there a flag in dockControl that must be used ?

Why does MEL require the use of ticks for some things ?

CreativeSheep

string $out_win = "outliner1";
dockControl -area "left"
-content $out_win
-allowedArea "right";

It docked an outliner, but not the vanilla outliner ?

CreativeSheep

string $out_win = "outlinerPanel1"
dockControl -content $out_win -area "left" allowedArea "left"
//-content $out_win -allowedArea "left";

?