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Soviut

10-15-2006, 06:49 PM

I'm trying to build a custom channel control. Is there any way I can force a channel selection. I want a user to be able to click a button on my form, have a corresponding channel selected, thus allowing the user to do a middle-mouse-drag in the viewport to slide the value.

As far as I can tell, I can only query the selected channels from the mainChannelBox, I don't think there's any way I can actually force a selection. What I'm really after is that middle-mouse-slider functionality, so if there's a way to bypass the channelbox to get this, I'd take that too.

Soviut

10-20-2006, 12:12 AM

Looks like I may need to use the API to do this.

NateH

10-20-2006, 02:21 AM

I have never done anything like this before but Ive seen a mel command that sounded allot like this: dragAttrContext I think.

Edit: just tested the examples and I think that's what your looking for.

Soviut

10-26-2006, 03:38 PM

Thanks! I'm checking it out now. Hopfully I can get this working.

sparaig

10-26-2006, 04:53 PM

Thanks! I'm checking it out now. Hopfully I can get this working.

If you can figure it out, let us know. I've been looking for intermediate sample code for draggerContext for some time now. I *assume* that whatever works with one should apply somewhat to the other.

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