textField command Help~!

[kok-alex]

Hi, im a newbie in mel scripting. That's a thing that i couldn't find any solution , Hope u guys can help me up alittle.

I'm working on a setup with IKFK auto matching system, this system works together with a xform command which query a object name to snap it to another object. Due to refferencing prefix problem i've done a textField command for animator to type in the prefix to recorrect the actual naming. However, the textField layout is done, but how can i replace a ( global string $prefixName ) when the textField is hitting enter, so that it can replace the string i've wrote in da IKFK script...?

example:

something like i want it to b

$prefixName = textField ( although this is not correct )

bcoz in my IKFK script i've wrote something like

global string $prefixName;
$ik_position = `xform -ws -translation ($prefixName+"FK_wrist_ctrl") ;

sorry, if my english confuse you...
Thank you very much  =j

Alexus

[molemansd7]

So... are you just wondering how to query a textField?

$textFieldName = textfield;
$prefixName = textField -q -text $textFieldName;