Displaying The Render View

[oodini]

Hello,

How to display the render view (without launching a rendering) in MEL ?

Thanks.

[ewerybody]

Hi!
CODE
scriptedPanel -edit -tearOff renderView;

[daniel-faust]

short answer: RenderViewWindow;

long answer 1:
1. Open the script editor
2. From the script editor's menu: check "Script / Echo all commands"
3. From the script editor's menu: "Edit / Clear History"
4. From the main window menu: "Window / Rendering Editor / Render View..."
5. Find the mel command in the script editor's history which seems to be responsible for launching the Render View.
6. From the script editor's menu: uncheck "Script / Echo all commands"

long answer 2:
1. Click on the menu item "Window / Rendering Editor / Render View..." while hodling down the Ctrl and Shift key to create a shelf item for the command.
2. Find the newly created shelf item and middle mouse drag it into the script editor's editing area to read the code behind the shelf item

[oodini]

Hello,

Thanks for the long answsers, but I prefer the short one that ewerybody provided !

[joojaa]

Well the long answer also tells you how to find any OTHER command.

[oodini]

That was I did before to ask the question, actually.

And you don't get by this way the "short" answer.

[joojaa]

Yes you do in fact. You juts need to dig a bit deeper. Usually the assumed abstraction level is a mel porcedure. this is what you get:

tearOffPanel "Render View" "renderWindowPanel" true;

Then you go

whatIs tearOffPanel

// Result: Mel procedure found in: yada yada yada/scripts/startup/tearOffPanel.mel //

then open tearOffPanel.mel

an youl get

string $whichPanel = getPanel -withLabel $panelLabel;

few lines down

scriptedPanel -e -to $whichPanel

which sums up into

getPanel -withLabel "Render View";
// Result: renderView

->

scriptedPanel -e -to renderView

which is the short answer (just with the abbreviated switchnames), thing is the mel procedure contains a lot of code to make the thing stupid user proof and more readable.