Any Way To Tell When A Scene Is Closed Or Loaded

[robchis]

I have a tool/gui that needs to reset when a new scene is loaded up. Does anybody know the way to tell if a scene file is closed or loaded?

[naughty]

QUOTE
scriptJob -event "NewSceneOpened" "doProc";

there is also a "SceneOpened" and a "deleteAll" events which may be useful... you also probably want to -parent the scriptJob to your UI too..! check out the scriptJob docs for full details.

:nathaN

[joojaa]

Yes, read mel reference docs for scribtJob,

file new is event DeleteAll
file load is SceneOpened

a number of conditions can also help:

ReadingFile

PS keep in mind that maya is not event driven in thsi fashion most fo the time so dongt trust scriptjobs to work as maya suspends them on certain important update times such as playback. If you need data then you must use nodes ie expressions or api.

[ewerybody]

yea but don't worry to much about that as well.. ;]

I / we use several SceneOpened scriptjobs for years now in production. I don't know of any problem with that so far crossingFingers :]

[joojaa]

QUOTE(ewerybody @ 05/08/08, 06:27 PM) [snapback]285254[/snapback]
I / we use several SceneOpened scriptjobs for years now in production. I don't know of any problem with that so far crossingFingers :]

Well i dont see much problems with SceneOpened mosly is see -attributeChange as potentially problematic as its often used in vain for trying to glue in place something teht shouldnt be touched in mel

Events:

idle
idleHigh

have allmost no use in mel

And selection Changed is best not overloaded too much, so engineering things better is the way to go here.