How Maya Call Some Commands Or Procs That Does Not Exist?

[12monkey]

How maya call some commands or procs that does not exist??

Im sure all of you have noticed this, some commands or procs that maya calls does not exist or should I say they are not been defined and you can not find any infomation of those in maya docs, what I mean not been defined is if you try to search that particular string in whole maya directory the result will be no match(find string in all files). So where are those cammands or procs coming from?

For example: //you have to echo all commands to see these
you click [Show] menu in model panel and then [Isolate Select], [Auto Load New Objects]

CODE
editMenuUpdate MayaWindow|mainEditMenu;
updateShowMenu MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout3|viewPanes|modelPanel4|menu33 modelPanel4;
updateShowMenu MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout3|viewPanes|modelPanel4|menu33 modelPanel4;
updateIsolateMenu MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout3|viewPanes|modelPanel4|menu33|menuItem1284 modelPanel4 modelPanel4;
isoSelectAutoAddNewObjs modelPanel4 1;
editMenuUpdate MayaWindow|mainEditMenu;

and if you try to search "updateShowMenu", "updateIsolateMenu", "isoSelectAutoAddNewObjs" these strings, you'll get nothing

So can anyone tell me where and how to find those commands or procs and how to use them?
Thanks in advance!

[joojaa]

QUOTE(12Monkey @ 08/19/07, 09:56 AM) [snapback]271879[/snapback]
How maya call some commands or procs that does not exist??

yes they do! they just don't exist standalone, but they are sourced a s a part of some other routine so when you register some gui item you define a another global proc and they'd be still accounted for by maya since they are loaded.

Tjhey are not documented because you shouldnt use/rely on them (especially version to version), and when you do you have the ource code to read yourself.

to find out use whatIs, querry and result:
CODE
whatIs editMenuUpdate;
// Result: Mel procedure found in: pathtomymayadir/scripts/startup/buildEditMenu.mel //
whatIs updateShowMenu;
// Result: Mel procedure found in: pathtomymayadir/scripts/startup/createModelPanelMenu.mel //*
whatIs updateIsolateMenu;
// Result: Mel procedure found in: pathtomymayadir/scripts/startup/createModelPanelMenu.mel //*
whatIs isoSelectAutoAddNewObjs;
// Result: Mel procedure found in: pathtomymayadir/scripts/startup/createModelPanelMenu.mel //*
whatIs editMenuUpdate;
// Result: Mel procedure found in: pathtomymayadir/scripts/startup/buildEditMenu.mel //

• theese ones im guessing where they are since i have made modified user script copies of them (so they reside in my scripts dir as they are supposed to when you d something like this) but they should be in startup as far as i know, don't have time to dig stuff you can do equally well

[12monkey]

Thanks very much for the reply Joojaa

It do tell me where the proc is been defined, but I also want to know where it has been called which whatIs command wont tell.

And another funny thing is when I search those string within file, I cant find anything yet they do exist in files, why is that?
for example:
RMB click maya folder, select search, and then search particular string within files, when its done searching I got nothing
Why??

[joojaa]

QUOTE(12Monkey @ 08/20/07, 06:20 PM) [snapback]271943[/snapback]
RMB click maya folder, select search, and then search particular string within files, when its done searching I got nothing
Why??

Because the standard windows search only searches files with certain extensions most notably txt and doc. If the extension is mel then it just refuses to search anything. theres plenty of better tools for this kind of searching.

PS: if you want to use things like google desktop you must also tell it to search mel files with a extension to your google desktop. Dont ask me why. Also dont ask me why microsofts search is so crap.