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[weedbeat]

Hi

I need a procedure, which is able to change my view to the perspective view no matter which view was previously there. So if im in the hypergraph it should change the view to the perspective view same for the orthographic, hypershade and whatsoever views. It should of course also just display the persp view if there was for an example a two panel layout with the hypergraph and the perspective.

the easiest way to do this is:

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setNamedPanelLayout "Single Perspective View"; updateToolbox();

But now I don't know what view has been there previously, but I need that to restore it.
And there seems to be another problem. Whenever the control at the right top corner of the perspective view is used to see an object from an orthographic view inside that perspective panel and then the code above is used it somehow changes to the corresponding orthographic view but not in the perspective view anymore meaning the manipulater at the right top disappears.

so what i need to do is
1. save the current layout (which panel/panels are currently displayed)
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getPanel -withFocus;

can determine which panel has the focus but unfortunately this doesn't really help since it just returns one Panel, if we have the hypregraph and the hypershade in a two panel layout it will just return one of them depending on which one has been selected previously

2. get the panel containing the persp view
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getPanel -withLabel "Persp View";
result: modelPanel4

3. displaying just this panel
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modelPanel -edit -replacePanel panelHavingFocus modelPanel4; updateToolbox();

replaces the currentlyfocused view with the perspective
but now we still have the problem in case of a multiple panel layout because the other panels will still be there..
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panePop;findNewCurrentModelView;

could do that if the mouse is over the perspective view but there must be a possibility to just display the focused window without using the mouse

4. go to persp view if for an example an orthographic view was displayed
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lookThroughModelPanel persp modelPanel4;

modelpanel4 should of course be replaced with the panel found by getPanel

5. display the perspective view in this panel if it was changed through the right top control
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viewSet -fit -ff 0.8 -krs true -an 1 -p ;

So to sum up I need to know how I can determine which panels are all visible(in my current view) and how I can make just one panel (the perspective view) visible without having any other panels displayed.
So i have no clue how to manage the different views except replacing them.

I know this was a lot to read through for describing the actual problem but I wanted to make clear what I know already and what really misses since I didn't really know that myself before i began this post.

Thx so much if somebody can help me

[naughty]

sorry, I can't give you a proper answer cos I'm just about to dash out for home.. but, it looks like you want to investigate the panelConfiguration command rather than dealing with individual Panels...

:nathaN

[joojaa]

well you could have just read the mel file that defines panePop wich leads you to next file

Anyway your prblem becomes teh fact that once yousvich the panel configuration theres no going back with the normal mechanism! But you must device your own.

Because the 4 panel storages is whats used to restore the plce so now if you change a 4 layout to persp that has no persp in it you cant revert to the 4 layout because it no longer has the original info left. However you can store the info somewhere.

[joojaa]

Yes nathans idea is better approach indeed i tought of that while cooking dinner.

save the panel as something like Switchbackpanelconfig and then reset the persp then when you want back set teh config to Switchbackpanelconfig

so to switch to single perp use

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if (panelConfiguration -ex tempLayout) deleteUI -panelConfig "tempLayout";
panelConfiguration -label "tempLayout" -sceneConfig false tempLayout;
updatePanelLayoutFromCurrent "tempLayout";
setNamedPanelLayout "Single Perspective View";

to revert back use:

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setNamedPanelLayout  "tempLayout";

[weedbeat]

thx a lot guys
@ nathan thx for the hint with the mel scripts this should have crossed my mind way before... I asked me already where does custom commands are beeing saved.

@joojaa thx for your input ill try that out right after cooking
panelConfiguration seems to be really what I couldn't find!

[weedbeat]

Ok it worked!

Thx so much!

But I still have a completly different question about what nathan said. I found the panePop script and it indeed helps understanding whats going on, but is there absolutly no documentation about the custom mel function provided by maya ? Id also like to know what global variables are defined by maya since they're being used all over those custom mel scripts.
Does anybody know where to get any documentation about this?

thx

[joojaa]

Scripts are documented in the scripts themselves. (they arent documented becaus eyou can read what they are madke off).

learrn to use whatIs, and runTimeCommand and one other thing that helps is to string search contents of all the script files (in widows its easy jsuit enter search and set containing string to what you serach for). What is tells you wehere the script is located that defines the procedure, runtime is usefull for those time sthat thyere a a alias of somekind in place.

And yes the globals are usualy described where they are first defined. Usualy they contain something trivial like the name of the layout.

[weedbeat]

thx Joojaa what would I do without u I'm beginning to ask myself

just one last question:

How can I get the label of the current active Layout?