How To Create Right Click Menu Commands For Specific Objects?

[pythonboy]

How to create right click menu commands for specific objects?

I got cube 1 and 2 and i want when i right click on 1 to see a command called something and on the other a command called anything.

I searched the docs but nothing got my eye.

thanks

[joojaa]

You make a creation procedure for the marking menu.

Its not documented because you have the full code regarding this (this is a developper issue not a user issue developpers are expected to be able to read code especially since maya echoes everything thats going on so finding what to change sint that hard), you must change the whole mel for the rmb menu to do this. Its nt spectaculary hard but you will be changing the WHOLE maya.

Echo all and see what is echoed when you press rmb. The whatIs the commends and youll find the procedure that generates the rmb mm. Then change thet proc. (this is not a light thing to do you must design a sytem that will not crap everything up, and thats easy to customize). The same data is available in the hotkey manager too.

Suggestion make a chek for some specified attribute in the objects that you then eval for the actual content instead of the defult if it doesnt exist prceed as usual.

[molemansd7]

You can also do this with the zooscripts package. Sean Nolan explains it on a video tutorial he made about creating an ikfk switch. Just watch the video and he'll show you how to use the necessary zooscripts to do it. Its pretty simple.

http://www.snolan.net/2008/01/07/29/

[pythonboy]

Yeah i wanted to know how it works under the hood not just using scripts.

Anyways i think i am gonna go with marking menus.

[molemansd7]

right...but that could be a source you could tap...look at his scripts and see what its doing. Just an idea...but I'm glad you came up with something that would work.

[molemansd7]

QUOTE(pythonBoy @ 03/21/08, 03:21 PM) [snapback]283006[/snapback]
Yeah i wanted to know how it works under the hood not just using scripts.

Anyways i think i am gonna go with marking menus.

Well, if you do figure out the dagMenu (right clicking) thing, would you share your solution with us?

[joojaa]

When you rmb click the screen maya calls buildObjectMenuItemsNow (turn echo all on and rmb), thet command is defined in mayadir/scripts/others/buildObjectMenuItemsNow.mel (whatIs buildObjectMenuItemsNow ), And the answer to your question is in that file it reads in shorttened form:

CODE
...
  string $leadObject[] = ls -sl -tail 1 -typ transform -typ shape;
  if (size($leadObject) > 0) {
    dagMenuProc($parentName, $leadObject[0]);
  }
...

Where parent name is the name of the mm. And dagMenuProc is described in mayadir/others/dagMenuProc.mel go read it. Its a bit long but quite easily followable.

PS what you search for is the last proc in the file you need to jump a bit back and forth to find the relevent parts because it quit oon callsoptionalDagMenuProc wich builds some of the specificts but.

[pythonboy]

I need to do that from code.

So is it safe to edit maya's script for my needs, but with my code.So the user is not bothered with that stuff.

And the editing will be just adding some menuItems and commands if specific objects are selected.

It is probably safe ,why should not it be ,just a damn script and i add some menuItems.But if you have any warnings or tips,just to make sure, bring it on.

cheers

[joojaa]

QUOTE(pythonBoy @ 03/31/08, 01:35 PM) [snapback]283465[/snapback]
So is it safe to edit maya's script for my needs, but with my code.So the user is not bothered with that stuff.

If you write bugless code, no seriously copy the files over to your own user profile (copy doont move), the scipts that are saved in your profile superceed the ones in the core maya directories (that is to say the last folder in maya env has the fineal sayso). So should you vener need to revert back to the originals youd just rename the files back. And you have lost nothing.