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nsimagine
10-02-2009, 12:44 AM
For learning API purposes, I am trying to convert the
closestPointCmd from the maya devkit from a command into a node.
However, I can get the intersector to work. Inside Maya I get the error message
Failed to create the intersector. Now for debugging purposes - and this might probably be
handy later on - to my actual question:

How can I print a MObject, or an MMatrix?
Something like :

MObject inMesh;
MGlobal::displayError( inMesh );

does not work for instance. How would I "convert" the Object into a String so that
I can feed it into the displayError or something that I can echo out?
Any ideas?
ksmtady
10-02-2009, 06:36 AM
You need to set the MObject into a MFn****.

e.g.
MObject inMesh;
MFnDependencyNode nodeFn( inMesh );

and

MString nodeName = nodeFn.name();
MGlobal::displayError( nodeName );
or
MGlobal::displayError( nodeFn.name() );

no error cases:
MGlobal::displayInfo( nodeFn.name() );//print in script editor
or
cout << "inMesh: " << nodeFn.name().asChar() << endl;//print in output window

or something like that.

Hope it helps.
nsimagine
10-03-2009, 04:57 PM
Yeah! That worked!
Thanks a lot for the help :-)
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