Tear off shelf or floating window

[roberte]

i would like to create a tear off shelf or floating window with tools I use frequently. I have a script (TJ Buttons which allows me to add tools but upon reopening they are gone. Can anyone suggest a way to do this or, if i e you the mel possibly check it?
I am using maya 6.1unlimited on os10.3.5.

[joojaa]

save shelf (mel command does it)... then source that file back into the shelf on load.

[roberte]

thanks for the reply but I'm sorry I don't know how to do what you suggest
I've tried saving the set up in tjbuttons but it doesnt work. I have a button to open the script which works but the user window is empty.

In a standard maya new shelf the tools are saved but I don't know how to tear it off or create a floating window either of which is what I want to do.

[joojaa]

when you reopen the window just source the file created!

[roberte]

unfortunately what I really want to do is create a new floating window and I don't know if it can be done or how. Any suggestions. The script I have I've tried sourcing, saving, etc but still, it's empty of my tools when I reopen.

[joojaa]

A veeery simple and badly coded example!

global proc myShelfSave(){
global string $tab;
print $tab;
string $shelfPath="C:/Users/Janne/maya/6.0/prefs/shelves/";
$tabs=tabLayout -q -ca $tab;
for($shelf in $tabs){
saveShelf $shelf ($shelfPath + $shelf);
print $shelf;
}
}
{
global string $tab;
string $shelfPath="C:/Users/Janne/maya/6.0/prefs/shelves/";
string $shelves[]={"shelf_Animation","shelf_Custom"};
$win =window -h 400 -w 200;
paneLayout -configuration "horizontal2" -ps 1 100 90;
$tab=tabLayout;
for($shelf in $shelves){
shelfLayout $shelf;
eval("source ""+$shelfPath+$shelf+".mel"");
eval $shelf ;
setParent ..;
}
setParent..;
button -l "save" -c "myShelfSave";
showWindow;
}