# How Can I Query A Graph Editor?
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mel
**Created:** [June 8, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047 "2006-06-08T23:20:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@jarod](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jarod)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/1 "2006-06-08T23:20:44Z")
Hi all
Just wondering how I can query what objects and curves are currently being displayed in a graph editor window?
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### Author:  [@malacay](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/malacay)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/2 "2006-06-09T12:46:36Z")
hi jarod
all selected objects are shown in the graph editor window. if an object has animCurves connected these are additionally displayed.
you can querry the name of the different anim curve nodes with the keyframe command.
CODE
keyframe -q -name nameOfYourControler;
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### Author:  [@jarod](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jarod)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/3 "2006-06-10T05:46:31Z")
hi malacay
thankyou for your reply.
It is true that I can use the "ls -sl;" command to find which objects are selected. But I don't think I've explained myself fully...
I would like to find explicity which objects are in loaded in the graph editor. If the "auto load selected" option is not acitve then objects in the graph editor are not always the currently selected ones.
Furthermore I need to be able to find which curves are highlighted in the grapheditor outliner.
Basically I'm trying to create a smarter "framing" script for the graph editor
does that make sense? 
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### Author:  [@jarod](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jarod)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2006, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/4 "2006-06-10T08:57:00Z")
hmmm...
just doing some more investigation... it seems that the selectionConnection might be used to do this. however I can't seem to get it to return an array of the highlighted animcurves...
any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@malacay](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/malacay)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/5 "2006-06-10T11:38:48Z")
hi
now i might understand what you want to do... 
so there is a command which i think will help you a lot - the "animCurveEditor".
find it in the maya help to get all the usefull flags.
so but be carefull when you call the graphEditor window. it must be called like this:
string $shownAnimCurves[] = `animCurveEditor -q -cs [b]graphEditor1GraphEd[/b]`;
print $shownAnimCurves;
hope this helps
greetz malacay
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### Author:  [@jarod](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jarod)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/6 "2006-06-12T04:13:22Z")
hey
that's exactly what I need!
thanks mate!
sorry I wasn't as precise as I should have been initially.
yay
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### Author:  [@jarod](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/jarod)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/how-can-i-query-a-graph-editor/3047/7 "2006-06-15T03:34:47Z")
Alrighty!
I have got my script working perfectly in maya 7.0! yay.
however the -cs flag doesn't exist in 6.5
In v 7.0 this works...
string $shownAnimCurves[] = `animCurveEditor -q -cs graphEditor1GraphEd`;
Any suggestions?