pymel.core.general.containerView

static general.containerView(*args, **kwargs)

A container view defines the layout information for the published attributes of a particular container. Container views can be selected from a set of built-in views or may be defined on an associated container template. This command queries the view-related information for a container node. The information returned from this command will be based on the view- related settings in force on the container node at the time of the query (i.e. the container’s view mode, template name, view name attributes). In query mode, return type is based on queried flag.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
itemInfo (ii)		unicode
	Used in query mode in conjunction with the itemList flag. The command will return a list of information for each item in the view, the information fields returned for each item are determined by this argument value. The information fields will be listed in the string array returned. The order in which the keyword is specified will determine the order in which the data will be returned by the command. One or more of the following keywords, separated by colons ‘:’ are used to specify the argument value. itemIndex : sequential item number (0-based)itemName : item name (string)itemLabel : item display label (string)itemDescription : item description field (string)itemLevel : item hierarchy level (0-n)itemIsGroup : (boolean 0 or 1) indicates whether or not this item is a groupitemIsAttribute : (boolean 0 or 1) indicates whether or not this item is an attributeitemNumChildren: number of immediate children (groups or attributes) of this itemitemAttrType : item attribute type (string)
itemList (il)		bool
	Used in query mode, the command will return a list of information for each item in the view. The viewName flag is used to select the view to query. The information returned about each item is determined by the itemInfo argument value. For efficiency, it is best to query all necessary item information at one time (to avoid recomputing the view information on each call).
viewDescription (vd)		bool
	Used in query mode, returns the description field associated with the currently active view. If no description was defined for this view, the value will be empty. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
viewLabel (vb)		bool
	Used in query mode, returns the display label associated with the view. An appropriate label suitable for the user interface will be returned based on the current container settings. Use of the view label is usually more suitable than the view name for display purposes.
viewList (vl)		bool
	Used in query mode, command will return a list of all views defined for this container.
viewName (vn)		bool
	Used in query mode, returns name of the currently active view associated with the container. This value may be empty if the current view is not a valid template view or is generated by one of the built-in view modes. For this reason, the view label is generally more suitable for display purposes.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.containerView

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Obtain a list of all available views for container1
#
pm.containerView ( 'container1', query=True, viewList=True);
[u'Animation', u'Rendering']
#
# Get a list of view items in the current view for container1
# In this example the list returned will include only the name for
# each item in the view.
pm.containerView ( 'container1', itemList=True, itemInfo="itemName", query=True)
[u'RenderSetup', u'color', u'intensity', u'Transform', u'rotateY']
#
# Get a list of view items.
# In this query the list returned will include the group boolean and label
# for each item in the view.
pm.containerView ( 'container1', itemList=True, itemInfo="itemIsGroup:itemLabel", query=True)
[u'1', u'RenderSetup', u'0', u'Color', u'0', u'Intensity', u'1', u'Transform', u'0', u'Rotate Y']