pymel.core.windows.hyperGraph

hyperGraph(*args, **kwargs)

The following is an overview of the basic features of the hypergraph. A more detailed description is given in the user manuals. The hypergraph provides the user with the ability to view and edit the maya scene graph. The hypergraph supports two types of graphs: the DAG or scene hierarchy and the dependency graph. The default view of the hypergraph editor is the DAG view. The user can show the dependency graph for a collection of nodes by first selecting the nodes and navigating to the dependency graph using one of the graph options. The user can save any view by setting a bookmark to that view. The user can also show previous views using the view options provided. The hypergraph supports a simple editing mechanism for editing hierarchy in the DAG view and connections in dependency graph view. In the DAG view, the user can reparent or reorder nodes in the graph using drag-and-drop. In the dependency graph view, the user can select connections and delete them or make new connections by dragging and dropping nodes or existing connections. The hypergraph supports two layout modes in the DAG view: automatic and freeform. In automatic mode, the graph nodes are automatically positioned according to the layout preferences. In freeform mode, the user can position nodes manually. The node position is saved in the scene. A background image can be placed behind DG or DAG in freeform mode. This can be used as a template for positioning nodes in a user-defined layout. Nodes in the DAG view can be expanded or collapsed. The state is saved in the scene. The performance of the graph drawing will increase as hierarchies are collapsed. In addition to hierachy relationships, the hypergraph can show expression, constraint and deformation relationships in the DAG. These can be enabled/disabled through the options provided. There are also additional filters for showing shape nodes and invisible nodes. The amount of detail show may affect the speed of the display of the graph. Most of the UI features of the hypergraph are addressable through the hypergraph command-line interface. The available command-line options are described in the next section.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
addBookmark (abk)		bool
	Create a bookmark for the current hypergraph view.
addDependGraph (adg)		PyNode
	Add a dependency graph starting at the named node to the view
addDependNode (adn)		PyNode
	Add a dependency node to the dependency graph view
animateTransition (atr)		bool
	Turns animate transitions off and on.
attributeEditor (ae)		unicode
	Launches attribute editor on selected node.
backward (bak)		bool
bookmarkName (bn)		bool
	Returns the bookmark name for the most recently created bookmark.
breakConnectionCommand (bco)		unicode
clear (clr)		bool
	Clears the current hypergraph view and deletes the graph UI. (see also -rebuild flag)
collapseContainer (cc)		bool
	Collapses containers selected in DG graph.
connectionDrawStyle (cds)		unicode
	Specify how connections between nodes should be drawn. Valid values are “center” (draws connection lines from the center of one node to the center of the other) and “side” (draws connection lines from the right side of the source node to the left side of the destination node). The default is “center”. This flag does not apply to Hypershade graphs, which are always drawn with the “side” connection draw style.
control (ctl)		bool
	Query only. Returns the top level control for this editor. Usually used for getting a parent to attach popup menus. Caution: It is possible, at times, for an editor to exist without a control. This flag returns “NONE” if no control is present.
currentEdge (ced)		unicode
currentNode (cno)		unicode
debug (deb)		unicode
defineTemplate (dt)		unicode
	Puts a command in a mode where any other flags and args are parsed and added to the command template specified in the argument. They will be used as default arguments in any subsequent invocations of the command when templateName is set as the current template.
deleteBookmark (dbk)		unicode
	Delete the bookmark with the corresponding node name.
dependGraph (dg)		bool
	Displays dependency graph iterated from specified node.
dependNode (dn)		unicode
	Displays dependency node in view.
directoryPressCommand (dp)		unicode
docTag (dtg)		unicode
	Attaches a tag to the Maya editor.
down (do)		bool
	Navigate down to the dependency graph containing the current selection. Shows upstream and downstream connections.
downstream (ds)		bool
	Show downstream dependency graph of selected node(s).
dragAndDropBehaviorCommand (ddc)		unicode
	Mel proc called when a drag and drop onto a hyperGraph node has occurred. Proc signature is procName (string $editor, string $sourceNode, string $destinationNode).
dropNode (dr)		unicode
	Returns the name of the source node in a drag and drop connection, when called during processing of a drop.
dropTargetNode (drt)		unicode
	Returns the name of the destination node in a drag and drop connection, when called during processing of a drop.
edgeDblClickCommand (edc)		unicode
	Mel proc called when an edge is double clicked. Proc signature is procName (string $editor, string $edge).
edgeDimmedDblClickCommand (edd)		unicode
	Mel proc called when a dimmed edge is double clicked. Proc signature is procName (string $editor, string $edge).
edgeDropCommand (edr)		unicode
edgePressCommand (ep)		unicode
edgeReleaseCommand (er)		unicode
enableAutomaticLayout (eal)		bool
	Rebuild the graph if a node is added or removed from the graph via drag and drop or dg messages. Default is true.
exists (ex)		bool
	Returns true|false depending upon whether the specified object exists. Other flags are ignored.
expandContainer (ec)		bool
	Expands containers selected in DG graph.
feedbackGadget (fbg)		unicode
	Returns the name of the current gadget.
feedbackNode (fbn)		unicode
	Returns the name of the current feedback or highlight node.
filter (f)		unicode
	Specifies the name of an itemFilter object to be placed on this editor. This filters the information coming onto the main list of the editor.
filterDetail (fd)		unicode, bool
	This flag is obsolete. Use the showConstraints, showExpressions, showDeformer, showInvisible, showShapes and showUnderworld flags instead.
fitImageToHeight (fih)		bool
	Changes position and scale of background image, so its height fits current editor view.
fitImageToWidth (fiw)		bool
	Changes position and scale of background image, so its width fits current editor view.
focusCommand (fc)		unicode
	Mel proc to be run when the mouse is clicked in the hyper graph. Primarily of use in setting the window focus.
fold (fo)		bool
	Folds (Collapses) selected object.
forceMainConnection (fmc)		unicode
	Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will use as its source of content. The editor will only display items contained in the selectionConnection object. This is a variant of the -mainListConnection flag in that it will force a change even when the connection is locked. This flag is used to reduce the overhead when using the -unlockMainConnection , -mainListConnection, -lockMainConnection flags in immediate succession.
forceRefresh (frf)		bool
	Forces the hypergraph to refresh (redraw) its contents.
forward (fow)		bool
frame (fr)		bool
	Frames the selected objects
frameBranch (frb)		bool
	Frames the the branch from the selected node on downward.
frameGraph (fg)		bool
	Frames the entire graph.
frameGraphNoRebuild (fgn)		bool
frameHierarchy (frh)		bool
	Frames the hierarchy that contains the selected node.
freeform (fre)		bool
	Enable freeform layout mode.
fromAttr (fat)		unicode
	Returns the name of the source attribute in a drag and drop connection, when called during processing of a drop.
fromNode (frn)		unicode
getNodeList (gnl)		bool
	Returns a string array that represents a list of all the nodes in the graph.
getNodePosition (gnp)		unicode
	Returns the position of a specified node in x,y graph coords. This flag and its argument must be passed to the command before the -q flag (see examples). In query mode, this flag can accept a value.
graphDescription (gd)		bool
graphLayoutStyle (gls)		unicode
	Selects the graph layout style : “circularLayout”|”hierarchicalLayout”|”orthogonalLayout”|”symmetricLayout”|”treeLayout”
graphType (gt)		unicode
	Returns the type name of the current graph in the view (either DAG or DG).
heatMapDisplay (hmd)		bool
highlightConnection (hlc)		unicode
	Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will synchronize with its highlight list. Not all editors have a highlight list. For those that do, it is a secondary selection list.
iconSize (ics)		unicode
	Set or query the icon size for this hyper graph editor. The currently allowed icon sizes are “small”, “medium” and “large”.
image (img)		unicode
	Specify background image to be loaded from the project image directory.
imageEnabled (ime)		bool
	Enable display of a loaded background image (Freeform DAG view or DG view)
imageForContainer (ifc)		bool
	Specify that the following flags work on selected containers instead of the whole image: -imageScale,-imagePosition, fitImageToWidth, -fitImageToHeight, -image
imagePosition (imp)		float, float
	Position of the background image.
imageScale (ims)		float
	Uniform scale of the background image.
initializeScript (ini)		unicode
isHotkeyTarget (iht)		bool
	For internal use.
layout (lay)		bool
	Perform an automatic layout on the graph.
layoutSelected (lsl)		unicode
	Perform an automatic layout on the selected object. “circularLayout”|”hierarchicalLayout”|”orthogonalLayout”|”symmetricLayout”|”treeLayout”
layoutSubtree (lsb)		bool
limitGraphTraversal (lgt)		int
lockMainConnection (lck)		bool
	Locks the current list of objects within the mainConnection, so that only those objects are displayed within the editor. Further changes to the original mainConnection are ignored.
look (loo)		float, float
	Look at a coordinate in the graph view
mainListConnection (mlc)		unicode
	Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will use as its source of content. The editor will only display items contained in the selectionConnection object.
mergeConnections (mc)		bool
	Merge groups of connections into ‘fat’ connections.
navigateHome (hom)		bool
	Navigate to the home (DAG) view.
navup (nu)		bool
newInputConnection (nin)		unicode
newOutputConnection (nou)		unicode
nextView (nvw)		bool
	Changes the view to the next DAG view.
nodeConnectCommand (nco)		unicode
nodeDblClickCommand (ndc)		unicode
nodeDropCommand (ndr)		unicode
	Set the command to be called when a node is dropped in the hypergraph window.
nodeMenuCommand (nm)		unicode
nodePressCommand (np)		unicode
	Set the command to be called when the user presses a mouse button while the cursor is over a node in the hypergraph window.
nodeReleaseCommand (nr)		unicode
	Set the command to be called when the user releases a mouse button while the cursor is over a node in the hypergraph window.
opaqueContainers (opc)		bool
	Sets expanded container background opacity.
orientation (orientation)		unicode
	Selects orientation style of graph: “horiz”|”vert”
panView (pan)		float, float
panel (pnl)		unicode
	Specifies the panel that the editor belongs to. By default if an editor is created in the create callback of a scripted panel it will belong to that panel. If an editor doesn’t belong to a panel it will be deleted when the window that it is in is deleted.
parent (p)		unicode
	Specifies the parent layout for this editor. This flag will only have an effect if the editor is currently un-parented.
popupMenuScript (pms)		unicode
	Set the script to be called to register the popup menu with the control for this hypergraph. The script will be called with a string argument which gives the name of the hypergraph whose control the popup menu should be parented to.
previousView (pvw)		bool
	Changes the view back to the previous DAG view.
range (rg)		float, float
	Limits the display of nodes to only those within the range. There are two float values expected, the first the lower threshold of the range and the second the upper threshold of the range. The values are absolute timing values, not percentages.
rebuild (rb)		bool
	Rebuilds graph
removeNode (rmn)		unicode
	Removes the node identified by string from the graph.
rename (rn)		bool
	Pops up text field over selected object for renaming
resetFreeform (rf)		bool
	Resets freeform position on all nodes.
restoreBookmark (rbk)		unicode
	Restore the view corresponding to the bookmark.
scrollUpDownNoZoom (snz)		bool
	Specify if we want to be in the scroll along y only with no free zooming mode. By default, hyper graph editor allows user to pan left and right.
selectionConnection (slc)		unicode
	Specifies the name of a selectionConnection object which the editor will synchronize with its own selection list. As the user selects things in this editor, they will be selected in the selectionConnection object. If the object undergoes changes, the editor updates to show the change.
setNodePosition (snp)		unicode, float, float
	Sets the node identified by string to the (x,y) position in the window specified by the two floats. If the node is not in the graph than it will be added to the graph and then moved to the new position.
showCachedConnections (scc)		bool
showConnectionFromSelected (scf)		bool
	Show the connects (constraints, expresions, and deformers - see showConstraints for example) leaving from selected nodes. This can be combined with showConnectionToSelected to show both arrive and leaving connects. If both flags are false then all the connections will be shown.
showConnectionToSelected (sct)		bool
	Show the connects (constraints, expresions, and deformers - see showConstraints for example) arriving at selected nodes. This can be combined with showConnectionFromSelected to show both arrive and leaving connects. If both flags are false then all the connections will be shown.
showConstraints (shc)		bool
	Show constraint relationships in the DAG.
showDeformers (shd)		bool
	Show deformer or geometry filter relationships in the DAG.
showExpressions (shx)		bool
	Show expression relationships in the DAG.
showInvisible (shi)		bool
	Show invisible nodes in the DAG.
showRelationships (shr)		bool
	Show relationship (message) connections.
showShapes (shs)		bool
	Show shape nodes in the DAG.
showUnderworld (shu)		bool
	Show underworld graphs in the DAG.
stateString (sts)		bool
	Query only flag. Returns the MEL command that will edit an editor to match the current editor state. The returned command string uses the string variable $editorName in place of a specific name.
toAttr (tat)		unicode
toNode (ton)		unicode
transitionFrames (tfr)		int
	Specify te number of transition frames for animate transitions.
unParent (up)		bool
	Specifies that the editor should be removed from its layout. This cannot be used with query.
unfold (uf)		bool
	Unfolds (expands) selected object.
unfoldAll (ua)		bool
	Unfolds everything under selected object.
unfoldAllShapes (uas)		bool
unfoldHidden (ufh)		bool
unlockMainConnection (ulk)		bool
	Unlocks the mainConnection, effectively restoring the original mainConnection (if it is still available), and dynamic updates.
updateMainConnection (upd)		bool
	Causes a locked mainConnection to be updated from the orginal mainConnection, but preserves the lock state.
updateNodeAdded (una)		bool
	Update graph when a new node is added to the database
updateSelection (us)		bool
	Update selection state in the graph when the selection state of database changes.
upstream (ups)		bool
	Show upstream dependency graph of selected node(s).
useDrawOverrideColor (drc)		bool
useFeedbackList (ufl)		bool
	Use feedback or highlight list as the target selection when processing other hypergraph command-line options.
useTemplate (ut)		unicode
	Force the command to use a command template other than the current one.
viewOption (vo)		unicode
	Set or query the view option for this hyper graph editor. The currently allowed views are “asIcons” and “asList”.
visibility (vis)		bool
	Set the visible state of the selected node(s).
zoom (zm)		float
	Specify the zoom factor for animating transitionsFlag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.hyperGraph

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# The hyperGraph command is not one which would commonly be used
# by the user.
pm.polySphere( r=1, sx=20, sy=20, ax=(0, 1, 0), tx=2, ch=1 )
# Result: [nt.Transform(u'pSphere1'), nt.PolySphere(u'polySphere1')] #

# Gets the position of the node in the graph.
maya.mel.eval( "HypergraphHierarchyWindow" )
position = pm.hyperGraph( 'hyperGraphPanel1HyperGraphEd', query=True, getNodePosition='pSphere1' )
print position