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th3m3nt4l
02-27-2012, 11:54 AM
right now I have created a script file.. call it script.mel for now.

right now it looks closely too:


myGui;

global proc myGui(){
makes the gui;
}

proc buttnChck(){
checks the state of elements in the gui and enables/disables certain portions of the gui
}

proc Names(){
Contains Arrays of Names and suf/prefixes to be used throgh out the script.
}
proc Positions(){
contains a matrix with default x, y ,z positions and a loop to get the positions of certain elements
}
....


The Problem I'm experiencing is that; out side of the GUI proc, if I don't declare the procedure's as global... the script breaks with the error of "cannot find procedure /Name/". Right now its ButtnChck.. but if I change it to global the next non-global proc causes the error. Any one have an idea as to the solution, besides making everything global- I'd like to avoid that for now.

In a second question: Is it possible to declare a matrix of lets say 0,0 and have its size updated- let say have 3 arrays representing x,y,z cordinates?
zeroeffect
02-27-2012, 12:46 PM
In this case you need to declare your local procs before they are called, so before the global proc. Maya does not allow you to forward reference locally scoped procedures.

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2012/en_us/index.html?url=files/Procedures_Defining_procedures.htm,topicNumber=d28e667493
th3m3nt4l
02-27-2012, 01:02 PM
Zero- I did that as well.

Moved the Gui proc to the the last procedure declared, and every thing else it refrences to be above it:
Looks like:

myGui;

proc Names(){
}

proc Positions(){
}

proc buttnChck(){
}

global proc myGui(){
}



Still get the error of cannot find procedure ButtnChck (gets called when a texfieldButtonGrp's command is pressed).

Wood moving the call to the gui (currently at the begining of the file) to the end of the file change things?
NaughtyNathan
02-27-2012, 05:21 PM
GUI controls or callbacks cannot reference local procs. Anything on a button -command, or a slider -dragCommand or a textField -updateOnKeyPress, or tabLayout -changeTabCmd, or -dropControl, etc, etc, etc, must be a global proc.
local procs can only be called directly from the single script file they exist in, not from UI and not from any kind of deferred evaluation.
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