how to get what attribute is selected in channel box on right

Dav · Nov 2011

Hi

I want to build my own toggle switch for lock selected and key slected or unlock , to do that i just simply want to click a button to toggle in shelf so that if i select any attribute of the object i should be able to lock or unlock just with a click rather than doing right cliock and lock selected..please help...

kodde · Nov 2011

I take it you are talking about Maya.

Welcome to polycount btw. Did you try just dissecting the output in the script editor from doing it manually?

haiddasalami · Nov 2011

string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
string $selectChannels[] = `channelBox  -q -selectedMainAttributes mainChannelBox`;
if(`size $selectChannels`!=0 && `size $sel` != 0){
for($thisObj in $sel){
    for ($thisChannel in $selectChannels){
        setAttr -lock (!`getAttr -l ($thisObj + "." + $thisChannel)`) ($thisObj + "." + $thisChannel);
    }

}
}
else {
    warning("Please select an object and the channels you want to lock");
}

Just wrote this up , should toggle the current selected attribute to locked and unlocked. If you wanted to build something else the command your looking for is:

channelBox -q -selectedMainAttributes mainChannelBox

Dav · Nov 2011

i understand and thats what i was looking for,

also i believe its better to use "!" mark to make a check rather then using an if statement, that makes it easier to put the getAttr inside the setAttr

just one more basic ques how does $thisChannel selects once channel at a time from $selectChannels ? is it what for loop is doing, coz its iterating. the the max in selection.

haiddasalami · Nov 2011

Yeah the $thisChannel is a variable that is declared in a for in loop and basically loops through an array (in our case the objects selected so we can locked multiple attributes across multiple objects and the selected channels) assigning each index of the array to $thisChannel. Its basically a simpler version of the traditional for loop. I'm using the if statement to check to see if any objects are selected and if there is a channel selected.

how to get what attribute is selected in channel box on right

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