pymel.core.rendering.renderThumbnailUpdate

renderThumbnailUpdate(*args, **kwargs)

Toggle the updating of object thumbnails. These are visible in tools like the Attribute Editor and Hypershade. All thumbnails everywhere will not update to reflect changes to the object until this command is used to toggle to true unless a specific thumbnail is forced to render using the -forceUpdate flag. In query mode, return type is based on queried flag.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name Argument Types Properties
forceUpdate / fu unicode ../../../_images/create.gif
  Force the thumbnail to update. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.renderThumbnailUpdate

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Turns on thumbnail updates.
pm.renderThumbnailUpdate(True)

# Turns off thumbnail updates.
pm.renderThumbnailUpdate(False)