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Mishiza
03-03-2008, 09:44 PM
Hello there!

Well here is my question:

I've been doing some Mel's here and there and i'm becoming pretty proficient using it, how ever I were never able to find out how to "dock" the windows I made in to the the place where the channel box / layer editor is.

I was searching for help a while ago but then gave upp beacuse i found no evidence that Maya is able to do that. However I recently saw the "Mel for games" CD and saw a scripter showing off his script and he was able to make the channel box what ever he wanted.

since this was a video from 2001 every link and such was offline, so now that I have nowhere to turn I came here.

What do I need to do to make a Window dock into the place where the channelbox is placed?
greatPumpkin
03-04-2008, 09:37 AM
there are mel scripts (i.e. layerEditor.mel) that come with maya that contain all the code that builds those UIs. It is tricky/annoying to edit them because there are a lot of dependancies between other scripts. You can also cause maya instability by messing about with those so edit them at your own risk- probably easier to edit things directly inside the default layouts rather then trying to edit the overall management fo the left channelbox/attribute editor area-

run a whatIs layerEditor.mel to find the location of the scripts for your particular maya install.
Mishiza
03-04-2008, 06:29 PM
thanks will try this out!
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