Popup menu in a custom context

[strarup]

Hi Andy,


don't know if this is useful... however will suggest you to take a look at this post "adding items to an objects RMB menu (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=88&t=143632)" by macaroniKazoo... :)

kind regards

Strarup

[claydough]

did you try your function in popUpMenu's -postMenuCommand?

"dagObjectHit"isn't in the mel command documentation however you can find all the flags for it in quick help.



additionally ls -preSelectHilite


is helpful for contextual component cursor query
a template fer both:

// cly_contextualCursorHit_template.mel
//__________________________________________________ ______________________________________
{
if( `popupMenu -exists cly_contextualTrash` ) {
deleteUI cly_contextualTrash;
}
popupMenu
-alt 1
-button 3
-mm 1
-p viewPanes
-pmc ( "string $bob[] = `ls -preSelectHilite`;"+ // ls return of pre-select hilite under cursor
"if (`popupMenu -e -exists cly_contextualTrash`) {"+
"popupMenu -e -deleteAllItems cly_contextualTrash;"+
" setParent -menu cly_contextualTrash;"+
"if ( `dagObjectHit`)"+ // dag object Hit returns int if cursor is over an object
"menuItem -label \"object under cursor\";"+
"else"+
" menuItem -label \"no object under cursor\";"+
"if ( size( $bob ) ) "+
" for ( $b in $bob ) "+
"menuItem"+
"-label $b; }" )
cly_contextualTrash;
}
//__________________________________________________ ______________________________________
// end

after executing the above code:
alt + rightclick on object and components
builds dynamic popUp that reflects object and component status under cursor

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3312/3306012217_9017df23af_o.jpg
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=732141

[Andimation]

Thanks for the replies.

Alex - Yes I know about the dagMenuProc techinique, but that's not what I am after.

Claydough - I had not heard of the dagObjectHit command before. I think that could become useful for part of my context. That's strange that it has never been documented.

I think I can hack something together by putting the content of my onPress function in the context into a command. Then defining the popmenu instead, and use the postMenuCommand to execute my command. The only downside being that I want the popup menu conditionally driven only if there is more than one object to select. Plus I don't need to handle components.

Its given me a few ideas. So thanks.

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