Forcing Export Dialog To A Specific Location

[kursat-turkay]

how can I : force export dialog to a spesific location ?

when I press "Export..." it always goes to workspace... or last used one.

like this

chDir "c:\myexports\"
exportSelection;

any chance ?

I hated to seek and put my export directory alwaysin an exportSelection Operation;

(as how terminator seek the target )

[daniel-faust]

There's probably an optionVar which contains the default path, so changing that var, opening the save dialog and resetting the var could be an option.

### see:

runTimeCommand -default true
-annotation ("Export Selection: Export selected objects (and " +
"related info) to a new file")
-category ("File")
-command ("checkForUnknownNodes(); projectViewer ExportActive")
ExportSelection;

### leads to:

projectViewer.mel

$typeAndMode = pv\_ActionSetup $startUpAction;
where startUpAction is "ExportActive"

projectViewer "ExportActive";
calls
pv_ActionSetup ExportActive

### which does:

  case "ExportActive": {
	if (`optionVar -exists defaultFileExportActiveType`) {
		$saveType = `optionVar -q defaultFileExportActiveType`;
	}
    $type[0] = "Export Selection";
    $type[1] = $saveType;
    $type[2] = "1";
	setWorkingDirectory $workspace $saveType "scene";
    break;
  }

### which leads to:
setWorkingDirectory.mel

which does:

string $rootDir = `workspace -q -rd $workspace`;
string $defaultDir = `workspace -q -rd`;
global string $gDirRetainingOptionVar;
workspace -dir $rootDir $workspace;		// Change to the root first.

and other stuff.

basically you need to see which of the workspace -q xxx provides the path which always appears, so you will do a workspace -e xxx to place your own in and perform the ExportSelection; which then queries the workspace -q xxx and gets your path. finally you change workspace -e xxx back to what you first got with workspace -q xxx to leave Maya in the initial state.

Hopefully this does the job.

Daniel