userSetup not sourcing on load

[sheriffcicada]

Hey all-

I am having trouble getting my userSetup to run on startup. I'll leave out the unnecessary details, but essentially, I am askin to return all of the scripts from a certain directory "maya/scripts/001_current" ... This is to help me to manage versions of scripts. Here is (what I think) is the important part).

{
  string $ud = `internalVar -uad`;
  string $srcCmd = "source ";
  string $udCurrent = ($ud + "scripts/001_current");
  string $cmd = "system (\"find " + $udCurrent + " -name \\*.mel\");";
  print $cmd;
  string $melString = `eval $cmd`;
  //print $melString;
  string $mels[];
  int $numMels = `tokenize $melString "\n" $mels`;
  for ($m in $mels)
  {
    if ($m != "")
    {
      string $fullPath = `cleanStringPathMac $m`;
      string $cmd = ($srcCmd + "\"" + $fullPath + "\";");
      if ( catch( `evalEcho $cmd` ) )
      {
        continue;
      }
      else
      {
        //evalEcho $cmd;
        print ($cmd + "\n");
      }
    }
  }
}

One other question, I am assuming that "source" is the proper command to call unless someone esle has a better idea on how to get my commands into ram for the maya session.

Thanks

Scott 

[joojaa]

I am having trouble getting my userSetup to run on startup.

also i suggest fro everyone always to check that theres no other userSetup.mel you are loading with a whatIs userSetup.mel in maya so you KNOW which is the file that is actually running.

I am assuming that "source" is the proper command

source is a directive, but yes it works. Tough you MIGHT want to do the easier thing:

{
  string $ud = `internalVar -uad`;
  string $udCurrent = ($ud + "scripts/001_current");
  putenv MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH (`getenv MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH`+":"+$udCurrent);
  rehash;
}

This is to help me to manage versions of scripts

well theres a easier and saner option and thats to use cvs, mercurial*,  bazaar or git to do that for you. Thet way you have only one folder but change the contents of that folder instead + this has a big advantage when moving over to other machines, developping scripts, working with many scripters and fixing msitakes. So you really should use a version control software for this, than you can just call the correct label fetch on maya start.

• i use mercurial trough TortoiseHg under both windows and linux