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dissidia
dissidia

Reputation: 1581

Possible to run a delayed code execution?

Will it is possible to run a small set of code automatically after a script was run?

I am asking this because for some reasons, if I added this set of code into the main script, though it works, it will displays a list of tab errors (its already there, but it is stating that it cannot find it some sort).

I realized that after running my script, Maya seems to 'load' its own setup of refreshing, along with some plugins done by my company. As such, if I am running the small set of code after my main script execution and the Maya/ plugins 'refresher', it works with no problem. I had like to make the process as automated as possible, all within a script if that is possible...

Thus is it possible to do so? Like a delayed sort of coding method? FYI, the main script execution time depends on the number of elements in the scene. The more there are, it will takes longer...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1796

Answers (1)

joojaa
joojaa

Reputation: 4434

Maya has a command Maya.cmds.evalDeferred that is meant for this purpose. It waits till no more Maya processing is pending and then evaluates itself.

You can also use Maya.cmds.scriptJob for the same purpose.

Note: While eval is considered dangerous and insecure in Maya context its really normal. Mainly because everything in Maya is inherently insecure as nearly all GUI items are just eval commands that the user may modify. So the second you let anybody use your Maya shell your security is breached.

Upvotes: 2

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