pymel.core.windows.hotBox¶

hotBox(*args, **kwargs)¶

This command controls parameters related to the hotBox menubar palette. When the command is invoked with no flags, the hotBox is popped up. In query mode, return type is based on queried flag.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
PaneOnlyMenus / po		bool
	Sets a row of menus to be the only visible row.
PaneToggleMenus / pt		bool
	Sets the visibilty of a row of menus to on or off.
animationOnlyMenus / ao		bool
animationToggleMenus / at		bool
clothOnlyMenus / clo		bool
clothToggleMenus / clt		bool
commonOnlyMenus / co		bool
commonToggleMenus / ct		bool
customMenuSetsToggleMenus / cst		bool
displayCenterOnly / dco		bool
	Three different display styles are defined for the hotBox. It can be fully displayed (dh), display only the marking menu zones (dzo) or no display (dco) which means that the entire screen can be used to access the marking menus defined in the center zone.
displayHotbox / dh		bool
displayStyle / ds		bool
	Returns a string that identifies the flag used to set the current display style. The results can be dh, dzo, or dco, depending on which style the hotBox is using at the moment.
displayZonesOnly / dzo		bool
dynamicsOnlyMenus / do		bool
dynamicsToggleMenus / dt		bool
liveOnlyMenus / lo		bool
liveToggleMenus / lt		bool
menuSetOnly / mso		unicode
menuSetToggle / mst		unicode, bool
modelingOnlyMenus / mdo		bool
modelingToggleMenus / mdt		bool
noClickCommand / ncc		script
	The command to be executed if the hotBox is engaged and then disengaged within noClickDelay time units.
noClickDelay / ncd		float
	If the hotBox is engaged and then disengaged within this time interval, then the noClickCommand is executed. The time interval is in seconds. The default value is 0.1.
noClickPosition / ncp		bool
	If a -noClickCommand has been specified then this flag will cause the X and Y screen coordinates of the mouse pointer to be appended as arguments to that command. The coordinates used are those of the pointer at the time when the hotbox command was initiated.
noKeyPress / nkp		bool
	Normally the hotbox is popped by a pressing a keyboard key. Use the nkpflag to pop the hotbox from a device other than the keyboard (still use the rlflag to unpop the hotbox).
polygonsOnlyMenus / plo		bool
polygonsToggleMenus / plt		bool
position / pos		int, int
	Specify the screen position the hotbox should be centered at next time it is displayed. The default is the cursor position.
release / rl		bool
	Action to be called on the release of the key which invoked the hotbox
renderingOnlyMenus / ro		bool
renderingToggleMenus / rt		bool
riggingOnlyMenus / rgo		bool
riggingToggleMenus / rgt		bool
rmbPopups / rmb		bool
	Enables/Disables a popup menu of the current function set. This popup menu appear when the right mouse button is pressed in the center zone of the hotbox.
showAllToggleMenus / a		bool
	Sets the visibility of all menus to on or off. When queried, will only return true if all menu rows are visible.
surfacesOnlyMenus / so		bool
surfacesToggleMenus / st		bool
transparenyLevel / tr		int
	The percentage of transparency, from 0 to 100. Currently, only the values 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 are supported. Any other values will be rounded off to the nearest supported value.
updateMenus / um		bool
	Reloads the hotBox menus from the main menubar. This flag is used when the menus in the main menubar are modified, and the hotBox menus need to be refreshed. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.hotBox

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Bind the hotBox to the spacebar.
#
pm.nameCommand( 'NameComPop_hotBox', annotation='Pop Hotbox', command='hotBox' )
# Result: u'NameComPop_hotBox' #
pm.hotkey( k=' ', name='NameComPop_hotBox' )

# Give the hotBox a 'noClickCommand' which displays the screen position at
# which the hotBox was requested. Note that 'showPos' function is passed
# to the 'noClickCommand' flag as a function, not as a string. This is necessary
# to allow Maya to pass the coordinates to it properly.
#
def showPos(x, y):
    print("hotBox requested at (%d, %d)" % (x, y))

pm.hotBox(noClickCommand=showPos, noClickPosition=True)