Marking Menu Left and Right?

[vaniljus]

I don't know if you can use the right button but I use multilpe marking menus on the left and middle mouse button.

My script looks like this:

global proc mmenu(string $key)
{

if(`popupMenu -exists tempMM`) { deleteUI tempMM;}
if(`popupMenu -exists tempMM2`) { deleteUI tempMM2;}

if($key=="a")
{
popupMenu -button 1 -ctl false -alt false -sh false -allowOptionBoxes true -parent viewPanes -mm 1 tempMM2;
source "menu_UImarking";

popupMenu -button 2 -ctl false -alt false -sh false -allowOptionBoxes true -parent viewPanes -mm 1 tempMM;
source "menu_Windowmarking";
}
}

I have a hotkey on the key a that calls the command mmenu("a");

If I use the left mouse button menu_UImarking will show, and if I use the middle middle mouse button menu_Windowmarking.

You need to assign a releasecommand for the key to kill the marking menu, assign it with the command mmenu("q");

[MasonDoran]

i believe that only works with the Hotbox

[stallion151]

i am not sure how you did this vaniljus...does that script go into the hotkey editor? i tried that, replaced the names of the marking menu's and nothing happened.

global proc mmenu(string $key)
{
.........
if($key=="a")
{

is that the hotkey assigning?

not sure how your works? could you be a bit more thorough. sorry. :)

stallion151

[vaniljus]

You need to assign 2 hotkeys.

I have 2 commands in the the user categorie in the hotkey editor.

The first command is assigned to "a" and it will run the command "mmenu("a");"

The second command is assigned to "a Release" and it will run the command "mmenu("q");"

If you check the name of the marking menus in the marking menus editor thare are called Windowmarking and UImarking but there filenames are menu_Windowmarking.mel and menu_UImarking.mel

I have my marking menus in
\My Documents\maya\5.0\prefs\markingMenus.

The script is located in \My Documents\maya\scripts\ and it is named mmenu.mel

I'm on a Winsystem using Maya5, I have not tested this script on any other system.

[stallion151]

thanks vaniljus. works a charm.

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