creating hotkeys for XRay

[stunndman]

a basic approach to setting up hotkeys

figure out what command does the job

to do that open your script editor and set Script->Echo All Commands

then do it by hand (set and unset) and you will see what commands were issued

now create a custom hotkey in your hotkey editor

now for the x-ray command you will have to additionally query the panel it should set x-ray shading for - that's another issue

i guess the best will be to get a pre-made script from highend3d.com - i'm pretty sure there a many for toggling the x-ray shading

[ZippZopp]

thanks a lot! i'll try doing it on my own to see if i can learn it, if not i'll check out highend3d.com thanks again!

[stunndman]

this are the commands to query the panel - the first one queries the panel with focus and the second one the panel under pointer

string $panel = `getPanel -wf`;

string $panel = `getPanel -up`;

[ZippZopp]

i found one that at highend3d, that sets Alt-X to turn xray on and off. I have a marking menu set to Alt X. i open the script editor and found the area that tells it to use the Alt key. Optimally, i'd like to change it to the shift key, but i can't figure out how to do it

i found this at the end of the script.

hotkey -keyShortcut "x" -altModifier -name "xrayToolNameCommand"

i was able to change where it says altModifier to CtrlModifier and that sets it to the ctrl key. i also have a marking menu set for ctrl-x. so i need it to be the shift key. what do i type there? i've tried shift, shft, sht, sft....nothing works, what should i do? yes, i'm a noob, sorry for being kinda stupid

[stunndman]

use the corresponding uppercase character

x or X (which is shift-x)

[ZippZopp]

so simple, i didn't even think of it.....did i mention i'm a noob?

[bambam]

look on my home page
I have a little script you can put on your shelf that will do this for ya

[webster]

look on highend / mel-scripts / Interface and Display / toggleTools

you get a bunch of usable toggle functions

[dmcgrath]

here is the code that I made for turning on all the windows at once:

modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel1;
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -xray 1 modelPanel4;


and then off just replaces the 1 with a zero:

modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel1;
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel2;
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel3;
modelEditor -e -xray 0 modelPanel4;

I have them on the shelf as buttons. But you can convert it to hotkeys. But if you use a hotkey setup, the -query window that stunndman wrote is definately the way to go.

[bambam]

Originally posted by bambam
look on my home page
I have a little script you can put on your shelf that will do this for ya

I should have explained this more
the script uses a simple if/else statement which querys the current active panel window

If you don't like this on your shelf you can take the if/else statement and map it to a hot key or to a marking menu

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