Lets you edit the available marking menus.
Once you define a marking menu, you must assign it to a hotkey or
add it to the hotbox before you can use it.
Settings
- Use Marking Menu in
-
Specify whether the marking
menu is linked to the Hotbox or a hotkey.
- Hotbox Region
-
If you selected Hotbox
for Use Marking Menu in, select
the Hotbox zone the marking menu occupies:
North, South, East, West, or Center.
- Mouse Button(s)
-
Select the left, middle,
or right mouse button used to display the marking menu. You can select
one, two, or three mouse buttons.
Create Marking Menu/Edit
Marking Menu
In this dialog box, you
can set the menu name and test your marking menu. To edit items
within a marking menu, -click
on a marking menu icon and select Edit Menu Item.
Marking menu item editor
This editor appears when
you edit a marking menu item.
- Label
-
Enter the name of the marking menu item.
- Icon Filename
-
Enter the name of the icon file. For
more information, see MEL and Expressions.
- Command(s)
-
Enter the MEL script used as the command for the
menu item. You can drag the MEL script from the Script Editor’s
bottom panel with the middle mouse button.
- Check Box
-
Displays
a check box beside the marking menu item.
- Radio Button
-
Displays
a check box beside the marking menu item.
- Neither
-
Displays nothing beside
the marking menu item.
- Option Box
-
Turn Option Box on to
display the option box beside
the menu item so you can change a tool’s options from the marking
menu.
NoteIf the tool or action
does not have an options window, you must use MEL code to create the
box. Once the box is created, you must write MEL code to invoke
the option window. For more information on MEL commands, see the
MEL and Expressions guide.
- Option Box Command(s)
-
Enter the MEL script
to use as the command for the menu item’s option box.
Assign hotkey area
in the Hotkey editor
For more
information, see
Hotkey Editor.
- Key
-
Enter the key you want
to assign to the selected command. Enter a letter from A to Z (upper
and lower case are different keys) or a number from 0 to 9. You
cannot use more than one letter or number.
Or, select a special
key from the pull-down list. For example, if you want the right
arrow key to act as the trigger, assign it here.
- Modifier
-
- Direction
-
Use Press or Release
to associate a command with the press or a release of a key. For
example, you can create a hotkey to instruct Maya to snap to a curve
when you press a key, then turn off the snapping when you release
it.
If you added a key to
an operation ending with (Press) or (Release), add the same key
to the corresponding (Release) or (Press) operation.
- Add to Recent Command
List
-
- Query
-
Click Query to
determine whether the specified key settings have already been assigned
to a command.
- Find
-
Click Find to
highlight the category and command for the key you enter in the
Key field.