Delete a shelf via mel

[mantrid]

Anyone know a decent way of deleting a shelf via mel script that will just delete it, and NOT bring up the text box asking if you want to delete it or not ????...or alternatively a clever solution for refreshing a shelf.

Much appreciated

[jeffd]

Looks like deleting a shelf calls the script
/AW/Maya4.0/scripts/others/deleteShelfTab.mel.

I opened that up and it is really easy to see where it creates this prompt. I would just comment those lines out and make sure the script is auto-confirming and then rename the proc/script to force_deleteShelfTab or something to that effect.

Digging through that script a bit more it looks like the nuts and bolts comes down to one line...

deleteUI -layout ($gShelfTopLevel + "|" + $shelfName);

That will delete a shelf, but I would take a look at the other stuff in there in case there is anything important. It looks mostly like shelf auto-backup code, though.

--JeffD

[mantrid]

of course!!!!! Thats great, thanks loads