Scriptjob: How Do You Do It In Python?

[robchis]

scriptJob: how do you do it in Python? I can't find any good information about it!

I'm trying to get scripts to execute when scenes are opened or closed, or when the current time changes.

Could somebody possibly be nice enough to put up a small example? Thank you very much!

[joojaa]

call python("your statement") in a mel scriptjob?

[krissah22]

I have same problem can't create scriptJob from python, that will triger a procedure defined in python when something is selected.

I also tried mel.scriptJob() but i don't know how to write the arguments inside.

Any help?

[john-creson]

8.5 gold, you may have to do something like this if I remember correctly. (but I could be way off)
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import maya.cmds as cmds

def warn():
height = cmds.getAttr( 'mySphere.ty' )
if height > 10.0:
print 'Sphere is too high!'

cmds.sphere(n = 'mySphere')
cmds.scriptJob (attributeChange =('mySphere.ty','python("warn()")'))

#################
8.5sp01 or later
#############
import maya.cmds as cmds

def warn():
height = cmds.getAttr( 'mySphere.ty' )
if height > 10.0:
print 'Sphere is too high!'

cmds.sphere(n = 'mySphere')
cmds.scriptJob (attributeChange =('mySphere.ty',warn))

########
that last line might need to be, or could be just as valid as above...
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cmds.scriptJob (attributeChange =('mySphere.ty','warn()'))

#########
the trick here may just be realizing that you are passing a tuple consisting of the attribute you are watching and the function you want called, into the attributeChange flag

[john-creson]

If you do need the mel.scriptjob() syntax, it might look something like this...

mel.eval('scriptJob -attributeChange mySphere.ty "python(/"warn()/")"')

[john-creson]

timeChange doesn't update if you click in the time slider, timeChanged does.

mel.eval('scriptJob -timeChange "python(/"warn()/")"')

mel.eval('scriptJob -event timeChanged "python(/"warn()/")"')

mel.eval('scriptJob -event sceneOpened "python(/"warn()/")"')