Check or ignore locked coordinate attributes?

[Horganovski]

Digging around a bit I found this which will tell me if the attribute is locked or not (returns 0 or 1);


getAttr -lock "pCone1.ty";


but my knowledge of Mel syntax is letting me down when I try and assign that to a variable like this -

int %lVar = `getAttr -lock "pCone1.ty"`;


I'm sure it's something simple I'm doing wrong here?

Cheers,
Brian

[mduvekot]

Here's what I would use:


string $list[] = {"pCube1.translateX","pCube1.translateY","pCube1.translateZ"};
float $value = 3.567;

for ($attr in $list){
if (catch (`setAttr $attr $value`)) {
print ("Could not set " + $attr + "\n");
}
else {
// continue as usual
}
}


but to answer your second question, you could also use something like

int $lock = `getAttr -l $attr`;


string $list[] = {"pCube1.translateX","pCube1.translateY","pCube1.translateZ"};
float $value = 0.1234;

for ($attr in $list){
if (`getAttr -l $attr`) {
print ($attr + " is locked \n");
}
else {
setAttr $attr $value;
}
}

[Horganovski]

Many thanks Michiel, I think I get that, but need to try it out on my code above to be sure. I'll try it out and see if I can get it working.

- Edit - I've managed to bodge the last example into my script now and it's working, but I did it in a pretty messy way.. I'll tidy it up a bit before I show the result :)

Thanks again,

Cheers,
Brian

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