MPxModelEditorCommand Class Reference
[OpenMayaUI - API module for user interfaceProxy classes]

#include <MPxModelEditorCommand.h>

List of all members.


Detailed Description

Base class for editor creation commands.

MPxModelEditorCommand is the base class for user defined model editor commands. This command gives all of the flags and options of the modelEditor command in addition to any user defined flags or behaviours. When registering this command, use the MFnPlugin::MFnPlugin::registerModelEditorCommand() method. A MPx3dModelView is also required to be used with MPxModelEditorCommand and is specified when the MPxModelEditorCommand is registered.

Examples:

narrowPolyViewerCmd.cpp, and narrowPolyViewerCmd.h.


Public Member Functions

 MPxModelEditorCommand ()
virtual ~MPxModelEditorCommand ()
virtual MStatus doEditFlags ()
virtual MStatus doQueryFlags ()
virtual MStatus appendSyntax ()
virtual bool skipFlagForCreate (const MString &longFlag)
MStatus setResult (bool result)
MStatus setResult (int result)
MStatus setResult (double result)
MStatus setResult (const MString &result)
MStatus setResult (const MStringArray &result)
MStatus setResult (const MDoubleArray &result)
MStatus setResult (const MIntArray &result)
virtual MString editorCommandName () const
virtual MString editorMenuScriptName () const
virtual MPx3dModelViewmakeModelView (MStatus *ReturnStatus=NULL)
MPx3dModelViewmodelView (MStatus *ReturnStatus=NULL) const

Protected Member Functions

MSyntax syntax (MStatus *ReturnStatus=NULL) const
 USE _syntax() IN SCRIPT.
MArgParser parser (MStatus *ReturnStatus=NULL) const
 USE _parser() IN SCRIPT.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

MPxModelEditorCommand::MPxModelEditorCommand (  ) 

Class constructor.

MPxModelEditorCommand::~MPxModelEditorCommand (  )  [virtual]

Class destructor.


Member Function Documentation

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::doEditFlags (  )  [virtual]

This method is called when the command is called in edit mode. This method should be overridden by panel commands to determine which edit flags are set in conjunction with the argument parser for this command. The argument parser for this command can be obtained by calling the parser method. If the command is called with both the edit flag and the query flag, then the query flag will be ignored.

If the command returns MS::kUnknownParameter, the flag is processed by the parent class.

Returns:
Examples:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::doQueryFlags (  )  [virtual]

This method is called when the command is called in query mode. This method should be overridden by panel commands to determine which query flags are set in conjunction with the argument parser for this command. The argument parser for this command can be obtained by calling the parser method. If the command is called with both the edit flag and the query flag, then the query flag will be ignored.

If the command returns MS::kUnknownParameter, the flag is processed by the parent class.

Returns:
Examples:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::appendSyntax (  )  [virtual]

This method should be overridden to append syntax to the panel command. The syntax object can be obtained by calling the syntax method. The following flags cannot be used as user-defined flags as they are reserved for edit and query: "-e", "-edit", "-q", "-query".

Returns:
Examples:

bool MPxModelEditorCommand::skipFlagForCreate ( const MString longFlag  )  [virtual]

Returns true if the passed long flag name should be skipped during the creation portion of the command.

Parameters:
[in] longFlag The string containing the long flag name.
Returns:
Return true if the flag shoiuld be skipped during creation.
Status Codes:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( bool  result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is a boolean.

Parameters:
[in] result the boolean result
Returns:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( int  result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is an integer.

Parameters:
[in] result the integer result
Returns:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( double  result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is a double.

Parameters:
[in] result the double result
Returns:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( const MString result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is a string.

Parameters:
[in] result the string result
Returns:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( const MStringArray result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is a string array.

Parameters:
[in] result the string array result
Returns:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( const MDoubleArray result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is a double array.

Parameters:
[in] result the double array result
Returns:

MStatus MPxModelEditorCommand::setResult ( const MIntArray result  ) 

This method should be called when the result of the panel command is an integer array.

Parameters:
[in] result the integer array result
Returns:

MString MPxModelEditorCommand::editorCommandName (  )  const [virtual]

Returns the name of editor command.

The user should override this method to return the name of their model editor command. This method is called when the model editor is being created and is used to be able to associate this command's name with that model editor.

Currently this association is used by playblast to call the appropriate plugin model editor command to provide information for the (-cameraSetup) flag. An override for this method and an override for the doQueryFlags() method must be provided to support multiple camera rendering via playblast.

Refer the the documentation on the modelEditor command for further information about the -cameraSetup flag.

Returns:
The name of the editor command

MString MPxModelEditorCommand::editorMenuScriptName (  )  const [virtual]

Returns the name of the script that should get executed to construct the menu for the editor. The script should take a string argument that holds the name of the created editor.

If no script is passed, the created editor will not have a menu.

Returns:
The name of the script

MPx3dModelView * MPxModelEditorCommand::makeModelView ( MStatus ReturnStatus = NULL  )  [virtual]

This method is called when the modelEditor is being created and it can be overriden to allow the user to handle the allocation of the modelView directly. Also, as this method exists on MPxModelEditorCommand, the user has direct access to the command line flags in create mode for the command (an example use would be to detect that a -quadbuffer flag was passed on creating the view, and you could then bring up the panel with quadbuffering enabled).

Parameters:
[out] ReturnStatus return status
Status Codes:
Returns:
  • NULL - unable to create the modelView for this command.
  • pointer to modelView - modelView successfully created.

MPx3dModelView * MPxModelEditorCommand::modelView ( MStatus ReturnStatus = NULL  )  const

Returns a pointer to the MPx3dModelView created by this command. If the MPx3dModelView was not created, NULL may be returned.

Parameters:
ReturnStatus return status
Status Codes:
Returns:
Pointer to the created MPx3dModelView

MSyntax MPxModelEditorCommand::syntax ( MStatus ReturnStatus = NULL  )  const [protected]

USE _syntax() IN SCRIPT.

This method returns the syntax object of this panel command. The syntax object can be appended to in an overridden version of the appendSyntax method.

Parameters:
[out] ReturnStatus return status
Returns:
The syntax object
Status Codes:

MArgParser MPxModelEditorCommand::parser ( MStatus ReturnStatus = NULL  )  const [protected]

USE _parser() IN SCRIPT.

This method returns the argument parser of this panel command. The argument parser can be used in the overridden versions of doEditFlags and doQueryFlags to determine which flags are set.

Parameters:
[out] ReturnStatus return status
Returns:
The argument parser
Status Codes:


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