Why Maya Unload personnal procedures?

[pilou--2]

Hi there. me again !

i'm experiencing a thing for a long time now.

I put my own scripts in the script preference folder and launch Maya.

I have a script Manager stored in a script and parented to a dockControl launched at the startup of Maya.

Here is my problem.

When I launch one of my script by the script Manager (even by writing his name in the command line actually) Maya runs my script but some of its procedures don't seem to be loaded at all. It should be done at the startup right ?

When I put the whole script in the script editor and launch it manually, it works perfectly. If I store the whole script into a shelf button  it works too. because I'm manually loading the missing procedures i suppose.

I tried to use the source command but it doesn't fix the issue.  

Do you know where could it come from ?

Thanks Guys.

Pierre 

[joojaa]

It should be done at the startup right ?

maya loads nothing on start up unless you specifically tell it to in user setup.mel/py or some of the other bootstrap files (but if it is then i can not help you, because then its your mess and you need to sort it out, theres no single person on the planet that can help you do it here). Maya only indexes all mel file names as possibly being callable names.

Do you know where could it come from ?

most likely the scripts are just in the wrong folder. run:

getenv MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH

and see that maya is one of the ; or : delimited string as a path (yes it needs to be a FULL path and no sub folder works), note it does not mean anything that they say in the manual folder is yada yada only this list counts.

The second reason, which is more likely the culprit in this case, is that the script is missing a in-point. Scripts that you expect to be able to launch MUST have the same file name as as the global procedure within with a mel ending, anything else and maya will not find it. You can have secondary functions in one file but no other person can call these if the file name does NOT match.

in a way maya has no mechanism for loading personal procedures, just scripts that have individual files and even then only global procs in them.

[pilou--2]

Well. My scripts are in the right folder.

Sometime I have more than One procedure in my script so I can't rename each of them like the name file. Is it good or should I separate every proc and put each of them into another file ? it Seems to be ridiculous to me but maybe i'm wrong.

i'm feeling like it's just a goddam little thing to set. Scripts run fine manually.

I'm gonna try to use the userSetup.mel.  

Thanks for the reply 

[pilou--2]

Well. It seems like I had some procedures named the same way in different script. for some variables too.

Allowing a prefix specific to the script seems to solve the issue.

Maybe I could have done this only for procedure names.  

But now it's working.

[rgkovach]

You do not have to separate all your prodecures into separate files for maya to load them, you just need to tell Maya you want to load the Mel file and all the internal procedures using the "source" command.

in your userSetup.mel file just add a line for each of your personal MEL files.

source my_first_mel_file.mel;

source my_second_mel_file.mel;

[joojaa]

Well usually you dont combine may procs that are not related into one file, soyrcing isa bad alternative to be honest you can do it but ist not really good diea for other than macros you use heavily. Thing is if the procs are not related and you expect them to be able to work without each other then you put them in separate files.