Accessing The Selection In The Graph Edited Via Mel

[gmask]

Is it possible with MEL to list which channels are selected in the Graph editor?

[jamespiechota]

First you have to get the graph editor outliner's selectionConnection object. Usually (always?) the graph editor outliner is called "graphEditor1OutlineEd" so you can query it's selectionConnection object like:

CODE
string $selCon = outlinerEditor -q -selectionConnection graphEditor1OutlineEd;

Usually (always?) this will return "graphEditor1FromOutliner". Once you have the selectionConnection you can query the selected elements with:

CODE
selectionConnection -q -object $selCon;

James

[gmask]

hmm.. that seems to only show me what objects are selected but I need to know the names of the animCurves that are selected in the Grapheditor... I'm poking around some more in the mel commands .. this looks promising.. thanks

[joojaa]

QUOTE(JamesPiecho @ 12/12/07, 06:16 AM) [snapback]277943/snapback

Only if you dont have more then 1 graph editor, even so best not bet on it.

[gmask]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 12/12/07, 03:56 AM) [snapback]277957[/snapback]
Only if you dont have more then 1 graph editor, even so best not bet on it.

It's not an issue yet since it still doesn't return the info I'm looking for

[ewerybody]

@gmask:
you could query the selected animCurves via:CODE
keyframe -q -sl -name;
Problem is: If you selected curves that are connected through a characterSet.. I don't know how to get the final channel. Joojaa? Do you know how to do this?

@JamesPiechota:
CODE
{
    string $selCon = outlinerEditor -q -selectionConnection graphEditor1OutlineEd;
    string $bla[] = selectionConnection -q -object $selCon;
    print("$bla: " + $bla[0] + "\n");
};
$bla: pCube1
?!?!? It returns the name of the object but not of the channel!

@Joojaa:
But Maya suppresses creation of another GraphEditor, doesn't it?

[joojaa]

QUOTE(ewerybody @ 12/13/07, 12:04 PM) [snapback]278035[/snapback]
[b]@Joojaa:[/b]
But Maya suppresses creation of another GraphEditor, doesn't it?

IN panel yes but you can make a copy of the editor with tear off copy. This is sometimes highly useful. Because you might have one set of keys that are fixed on some object and other that dont

[jamespiechota]

@ewerybody
QUOTE
?!?!? It returns the name of the object but not of the channel! mellow.gif

Interesting. In Maya 8.0/8.5, if I select one of the animated attributes in the graph editor and run your code I get the following output:

$bla: pCube1.translateZ

If I just select the animated object but none of the animated attributes, however, the output is (as I would expect):

$bla: pCube1

What Maya version are you using?

[slimbox]

The graph editor has two parts (outliner and graph), so there is a difference between selecting the attribute (channel) in the Graph Editor and selecting the animation curve in the Graph Editor.

This code returns what is highlighted in the Graph Editor outliner, which controls what you curves you will see in the Graph.

CODE
selectionConnection -q -object outlinerEditor -q -slc graphEditor1OutlineEd;

This code returns the actual selected curve in the graph, in which case you'll need to chase down it's connection to find the atrribute (channel) it is connected to.
CODE
keyframe -q -sl -name;

or

selectionConnection -q -object outlinerEditor -q -hlc graphEditor1OutlineEd;

So the answer is it depends on what you mean by "which channels are selected in the Graph editor?". What attributes are selected in the graph editor outliner or what curve is selected in the graph editor graph?

[gmask]

QUOTE(slimboX @ 01/11/08, 12:25 AM) [snapback]279534[/snapback]
So the answer is it depends on what you mean by "which channels are selected in the Graph editor?". What attributes are selected in the graph editor outliner or what curve is selected in the graph editor graph?

Thanks.. I did say above ..

"I need to know the names of the animCurves that are selected in the Grapheditor"