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123iamking
123iamking

Reputation: 2703

Toggle xRay for selected object in Maya with script

I'm new to mel script. I know that I can toggle manually xray with the code.

displaySurface -xRay true; //Xray on
displaySurface -xRay false; //Xray off

But I want it to toggle automatically, like

if(xRay on)
 set xRay off
else
 set xRay on

I know that I can check xRay on or off with the command

displaySurface -query -xRay;

But I just can't put this command into if block. I tried many things like the code below, but nothing works.

if(`displaySurface -query -xRay` == 1) // Error: line 1: Cannot use data of type int[] in a scalar operation. // 
print("To be or not to be");

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2194

Answers (2)

Morten
Morten

Reputation: 497

The brackets after int in the error Cannot use data of type int[] indicates that the function returns an integer array. So you need to take the first element [0] of the array.

$xRayOnArray = `displaySurface -q -xRay`;
if ($xRayOnArray[0] == 0) {
    print("X-Ray is enabled");
} else {
    print("X-Ray is disabled");
}

Why it returns an array is a puzzle. It isn't documented and the function can only query a single object at a time.

Upvotes: 0

sfillat
sfillat

Reputation: 54

Looks like displaySurface -query -xRay is returning an array. This worked for me:

int $y[] = `displaySurface -query -xRay`;

if( $y[0] == 1) 
print("To be or not to be");

Upvotes: 0

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