pymel.core.general.selectPref

selectPref(*args, **kwargs)

This command controls state variables used to selection UI behavior.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
affectsActive (aa)		bool
	Set affects-active toggle which when on causes the active list to be affected when changing between object and component selection mode.
allowHiliteSelection (ahs)		bool
	When in component selection mode, allow selection of objects for editing. If an object is selected for editing, it appears in the hilite color and its selectable components are automatically displayed.
autoSelectContainer (asc)		bool
	When enabled, with container centric selection also on, whenever the root transform is selected in the viewport, the container node will automatically be selected as well.
clickBoxSize (cbs)		int
	When click selecting, this value defines the size of square picking region surrounding the cursor. The size of the square is twice the specified value. That is, the value defines the amount of space on all four sides of the cursor position. The size must be positive.
clickDrag (cld)		bool
	Set click/drag selection interaction on/off
containerCentricSelection (ccs)		bool
	When enabled, selecting any DAG node in a container in the viewport will select the container’s root transform if there is one. If there is no root transform then the highest DAG node in the container will be selected. There is no effect when selecting nodes which are not in a container.
disableComponentPopups (dcp)		bool
	A separate preference to allow users to disable popup menus when selecting components. This pref is only meaningful if the popupMenuSelection pref is enabled.
expandPopupList (epl)		bool
	When in popup selection mode, if this is set then all selection items that contain multiple objects or components will be be expanded such that each object or component will be a single new selection item.
ignoreSelectionPriority (isp)		bool
	If this is set, selection priority will be ignored when performing selection.
manipClickBoxSize (mcb)		int
	When selecting a manipulator, this value defines the size of square picking region surrounding the cursor. The size of the square is twice the specified value. That is, the value defines the amount of space on all four sides of the cursor position. The size must be positive.
paintSelect (ps)		bool
paintSelectWithDepth (psd)		bool
popupMenuSelection (pms)		bool
	If this is set, a popup menu will be displayed and used to determine the object to select. The menu lists the current user box (marquee) of selected candidate objects.
preSelectHilite (psh)		bool
preSelectHiliteSize (phs)		float
selectTypeChangeAffectsActive (stc)		bool
selectionChildHighlightMode (sch)		int
	Controls the highlighting of the children of a selected object. Valid modes are: 0: Always highlight children 1: Never highlight children 2: Use per-object “Selection Child Highlight” setting. Default mode is (0): Always highlight children. For (2), each DAG object has an individual “Selection Child Highlight” boolean flag. By default, this flag will be TRUE. When mode (2) is enabled, the control is deferred to the selected object’s “Selection Child Highlight” flag.Flag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
singleBoxSelection (sbs)		bool
	Set single box selection on/off. This flag indicates whether just single object will be selected when the user box (marquee) selects several objects if flag set to true. Otherwise, all those objects inside the box will be selected.
straightLineDistance (sld)		bool
trackSelectionOrder (tso)		bool
	When enabled, the order of selected objects and components will be tracked. The ‘ls’ command will be able to return the active list in the order of selection which will allow scripts to be written that depend on the order.
useDepth (ud)		bool
xformNoSelect (xns)		bool
	Disable selection in xform tools

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.selectPref

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

pm.selectPref(popupMenuSelection=True,disableComponentPopups=True)