pymel.core.windows.popupMenu¶
- popupMenu(*args, **kwargs)¶
This command creates a popup menu and attaches it to the current control if no parent is specified. The popup menu is posted with the right mouse button by default. Popup menus can be added to any kind of control, however, on some widgets, only the standard menu button (3rd mouse button) can be used to trigger popup menus. This is to meet generally accepted UI guidelines that assign the 3rd mouse button and only this one to popup menus, and also to prevent unexpected behavior of controls like text fields, that expect 1st and 2nd button to be reserved for contextual operations like text or item selection...
Flags:
Long Name / Short Name Argument Types Properties allowOptionBoxes / aob bool 
Indicate whether the menu will be able to support option box menu items. An error results if an option box item is added to a menu that doesn’t allow them. This flag may be queried and must be specified when the popup menu is created. The default value is false. altModifier / alt bool
Specify this flag if the Alt modifier must be pressed when posting the popup menu. button / b int
Indicate which button posts the popup menu. Valid values range from 1 to 3 where 1 is the left most button on the mouse. ctrlModifier / ctl bool
Specify this flag if the Cntl modifier must be pressed when posting the popup menu. defineTemplate / dt unicode
Puts the command in a mode where any other flags and args are parsed and added to the command template specified in the argument. They will be used as default arguments in any subsequent invocations of the command when templateName is set as the current template. deleteAllItems / dai bool
Delete all the items in this menu. exists / ex bool
Returns whether the specified object exists or not. Other flags are ignored. itemArray / ia bool
Return string array of the menu item names. markingMenu / mm bool
Set the marking menu state of this popup menu. numberOfItems / ni bool
Return number of items in the menu. parent / p unicode
Specify the control that the popup menu will appear in. postMenuCommand / pmc script
Specify a script to be executed when the popup menu is about to be shown. postMenuCommandOnce / pmo bool
Indicate the -pmc/postMenuCommandshould only be invoked once. Default value is false, ie. the -pmc/postMenuCommandis invoked every time the popup menu is shown. shiftModifier / sh bool
Specify this flag if the Shift modifier must be pressed when posting the popup menu. useTemplate / ut unicode
Forces the command to use a command template other than the current one. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list. Derived from mel command maya.cmds.popupMenu
Example:
import pymel.core as pm pm.window() # Result: ui.Window('window1') # pm.columnLayout() # Result: ui.ColumnLayout('window1|columnLayout69') # pm.button() # Result: ui.Button('window1|columnLayout69|button66') # pm.popupMenu() # Result: ui.PopupMenu('window1|columnLayout69|button66|popupMenu90') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|button66|popupMenu90|menuItem931') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|button66|popupMenu90|menuItem932') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|button66|popupMenu90|menuItem933') # pm.text() # Result: ui.Text('window1|columnLayout69|text5') # pm.popupMenu( button=1 ) # Result: ui.PopupMenu('window1|columnLayout69|text5|popupMenu91') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|text5|popupMenu91|menuItem934') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|text5|popupMenu91|menuItem935') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|text5|popupMenu91|menuItem936') # pm.checkBox( 'aCheckBox' ) # Result: ui.CheckBox('window1|columnLayout69|aCheckBox') # pm.popupMenu( parent='aCheckBox', alt=True, ctl=True ) # Result: ui.PopupMenu('window1|columnLayout69|aCheckBox|popupMenu92') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|aCheckBox|popupMenu92|menuItem937') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|aCheckBox|popupMenu92|menuItem938') # pm.menuItem() # Result: ui.CommandMenuItem('window1|columnLayout69|aCheckBox|popupMenu92|menuItem939') # pm.showWindow()