New To -dt Stringarray

[doug-hines]

So I've seen soem rigs that make use of drop down menus in the channel box for parenting and the like. I believe these attributes are stringArrays. However after looking through the command reference I found no useful information on how to define what the strings in the stringArray are. I know some of you have used this data type before, so please educate me on it's use.

[rgkovach]

the first thing that pops to mind is enumated attribute...

CODE
addAttr -enum "A:B:C";

[doug-hines]

note quite what I was looking for. gives me the attribute values of ints.. not strings

[kurianos3d]

dont know your looking the same ??

CODE
addAttr -dt "stringArray" -ln "stringTest" pSphere1
setAttr -e-keyable true pSphere1.stringTest;
setAttr -type stringArray  pSphere1.stringTest 1 "maya"
getAttr -typ pSphere1.stringTest
getAttr pSphere1.stringTest

[doug-hines]

so it was enum.. i was being stupid attempting to combine the -enumName flag with the -dt "stringArray" ... doesn't work

[doug-hines]

So it's been a while since I did any MEL, and unfortunately I did not save the script that I used the enum snippet in.

I am having problems getting an enumerated attribute on a node.

I am attempting this code

addAttr -ln "Parent" -enum "Head_Control:Neck_Control:Root_Control:World" -k 1;

[doug-hines]

nevermind, I figured it out. I had not combined the correct things

for future reference (for me)
addAttr -ln "Name" -at "enum" -enumName "A:B" -k 1;