Delete UI crashing

[m-g--2]

Hi,
so... trying to use deleteUI to delete a button...

deleteUI -control "iconTextButton28";

(on linux) it crashes everytime after using this command... is there anotherway to delete the control? besides just turning the visibility off?  thanks...

[joojaa]

What version of maya? Have you reported this to autodesk.  Just this button or ANY button? Is it possible thet your acually deleting right button. See maya has possible many bottns with same name as long as the full name is different. So have you tied uusing teh full name of the button. Have you tried without tha "-control" flag?

[m-g--2]

Its maya 2008, haven't reported it to autodesk yet.. could anything be done since I'm on an old version? maya doesn't crash if i use this command on a click of the button with a -c "deleteUI .. .. .. " but if I try and create a drag/drop procedure and i do the delete UI in that procedure then it crashes if i use the variable name for the button or the buttons specific name.  I double checked it was the right name/number... I tried w/out the control flag and it still crashes...

[joojaa]

try putting a evalDfered around your command that should do the trick. YOur kindof killing yourself here.

could anything be done since I'm on an old version?

thereare several differnet versions of each maya. So you might get a fix version. But since you obviously arent on  asupport conttract...

[tjvoll]

I just came across this problem and the evalDeferred doesn't work in all cases. 

It seems like the least buggiest way to deal with deleting UI objects is just to not delete them.

use,

string $model_panel = modelPanel;

instead of,

modelPanel model_panel;

That way you don't run into the issue of duplicate named object errors.

Unless someone knows different?...

[joojaa]

Actually you should do BOTH:

string $model_panel = modelPanel model\_panel;

Because maya does NOT guarantee thet you get the name you want. doing:

modelPanel model_panel;

is suicide and if you get crashing in theese circumstances its ALL YOUR OWN FAULT.