Button that do somethin' on press

[user_deleted]

Hi all!
is there a button in maya that do something while I'm pressing it? for example a button that translate the selected object and repeat that until I release the button...
thanks fir your attentions!

Nicola Danese

[thr3ddy]

button -edit -label "translate" -command "move -r 0 0 0" -actOnPress true;

where -r means relative and can be set to -a absolute. 0 0 0 is your vector.
You'll need to put it in a window though

[user_deleted]

thanks a lot!

[user_deleted]

ehm...well..Thr3ddy this is not what I mean...
I try your solution, now the command is executed when I press the button, and not when I release it...
but I want to do the command a lot of time 'til I release it...so while I'm keeping the button pressed my object will move a lot of time...

[ewerybody]

I don't know excactly, but as far as I know Maya and a little Mel there is no possibility to run a command as long as a button is pressed.

What you could do is to make a slider or catch the time you pressed the button first and match it with the time when you pressed it second. Then move your object according to how long you took to repress.

[joojaa]

or draggercontext!

But the press solution has a problem. Se as long as maya executes a mel command it will stop doing everything else. Tough its possible to make a scriptjob that loops and does this and then stops on mouseup. Not for the faint hearted tough.

Also remeber thet if you intender to do a cursor where you can press a button to get teh camera to tur during playcbeck... Then yoru out of luck. Mel isnt evaluated during playback! Ex