draggerCtx

Maya
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I've been having a lot of trouble getting "draggerCtx" contexts to behave as the docs would indicate they should.

probs:

Only the "objectViewPlane" projection mode seems to work as expected.

Setting a cursor type from the script seems to work only some of the time

The -ds/drawString flag doesn't seem to work at all, not even in the example in the docs.

If you're getting results from the context in anything but screen space, the results come back as if scaled by metric>english conversion, ie. about 2.5 x -- even though I had my units set to centimeters!

I can see a lot of uses for this tool... but as far as I can tell it barely works (the only scripts in the default Maya install that use it are really simple and don't help with these issues.)

Any help much appreciated

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I've had the same kind of problems, although I've used it anyway...
I usually start with a mel script w/ the draggerCtx, but at the end I put the same algorithm in a plug-in code.
Write me if you want more details.

Lalo.