Add a pop up window for credits

[brutus-smith]

How do i create a pop up window in Maya 2010 that has my credits and info like I see occasionally from other Maya users? It always pops up when ever the mb file is first opened in Maya.

[adam-white]

look up scriptJob in the docs

[brutus-smith]

Adam, thank you. I did read  a lot as you suggested, but it is mostly all above me at this time. Could you or someone else here be more specific and help a noob out?  I open certain mb files and they have a pop up window that shows a persons credits and info. It is a called a default window that changes to say credits. How is this created and what is making this window always pop up? 

[adam-white]

k, first off. your gonna have to know some mel to do this. A scriptJob is script that runs when a certain condition is met, like a file opening. Upon meeting this condition, you can get it to run a script. This script could, for example, open a credits window. This script is should be quite easy to write.However, if you don't have experience with mel, it could be painful.

You could do something else. For example have some text (Nurbs curves) that was on a display layer and the animator could turn visibility off when they open. You could even attach it to the camera or something. Depending on what you where trying to do, I would try some alternative solutions before commiting to scriptJobs

[brutus-smith]

Adam,

I appreciate you taking the time to help. It will take some time for me to learn the mel. i have tried a bit, but it does get painful as you mention and it seems to get deeper the more I try. If I open an mb file and it has the pop up with credits, where do I find that info? I open the script editor and see a ton of script just from opening the file. I usually try to reverse engineer things and learn from it. Is there a certain area in that script that is part of the mb I can find? I start with a clean script editor (clear all history) and then load the mb .he script editor then fills up,,, a lot.  I painfully looked through the script but do not see anything that reflects the info or reference to the pop up window.

[norbert-nacu]

Hell There,
Please try this:

1. Create a new scene.
2. Run this command:

scriptNode -st 2 -bs "confirmDialog -m \"Hello There\"";
3. Save the scene.
4. Create a new scene.
5. Re-open that file, and you should have a confirmDialog window.

Hope that helps.
Norbert Nacu

[brutus-smith]

Thanx Norbert. How would I change a Maya mb scene file I worked on that has this pop up saying "hello there" to say something different without having to rebuild the whole scene? Or even delete it from the  the scene I just saved with it?
I can see I will need to spend more time learning mel. I have been cramming on rigging the last few months.  

[norbert-nacu]

Hello,
I'm sorry for the late reply, but if you want to change/delete the message, then you have to figure out the script node name:

// Run this
string $scriptNodes[] = ls -typ "script";

// Result
myScriptNode
sceneConfigurationScriptNode

In our example above Maya created a node called script1, so to simply change the message we could do this:

scriptNode -e -bs "confirmDialog -m \"Yo Yo\"" script1;

// To delete the node, simply do this:
delete script1;

Hope this helps,
Norbert Nacu