Query Scriptjob

[forever-49ers]

I created a scriptJob

scriptJob -e "SelectTypeChanged" "test";

global proc test()
{
print "test";
}

how can I query whatever the scriptJob is creating ? scriptJob does not have a query flag.

thanks,
Steffen

[daniel-faust]

I don't quite understand your question (what does it mean "what a scriptJob is creating"), but just in case it helps, scriptJob -listJobs provides information about all the existing scriptJobs.

[ryan47]

Hi 49ers~
You must record the index number of the script job you have created, then you could use it to query if the job exists or not.

CODE
int $jobNum = scriptJob -e "SelectTypeChanged" "test";
if ( scriptJob -ex $jobNum )
{
    // your job has been created...
}

Hope this would help~

Ryan47

[warpcat]

You can also query for it after the fact of creation, if you need to.
If you know some bit of the code that lives in your scriptjob, you can do:

get a list of all the scriptjobs (via the scriptJob command)
for each item
match some part of that text that you're looking for
pull the scriptJob # from that item and return

[daniel-faust]

I happened to have a snippet of code which illustrates just that.

CODE
string $jobs[] = scriptJob -listJobs;
string $job;
for ($job in $jobs) {
  if(gmatch $job "*initializeSoundToolbox*") {
    string $buffer[];
    int $numTokens = tokenize $job ":" $buffer;
    if ($numTokens) {
      int $iJob = $buffer[0];
      scriptJob -kill $iJob -force;
    }
  }
}