pymel.core.context.showManipCtx¶

showManipCtx(*args, **kwargs)¶

This command can be used to create a show manip context. The show manip context will display manips for all selected objects that have valid manips defined for them.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
currentNodeName / cnn		bool
	Returns the name of the first node that the context is attached to.
exists / ex		bool
	Returns true or false depending upon whether the specified object exists. Other flags are ignored.
history / ch		bool
	If this is a tool command, turn the construction history on for the tool in question.
image1 / i1		unicode
	First of three possible icons representing the tool associated with the context.
image2 / i2		unicode
	Second of three possible icons representing the tool associated with the context.
image3 / i3		unicode
	Third of three possible icons representing the tool associated with the context.
incSnap / incSnap		int, bool
	If true, the manipulator owned by the context will use incremental snapping for specified mode.
incSnapRelative / isr		int, bool
	If true, the manipulator owned by the context will use relative incremental snapping for specified mode.
incSnapUI / isu		bool
	Returns an array of elements indicating what kind of incremental snap UI is required by the manipulator owned by the context. If no UI is required, the result array will contain a single element of with the value 0. The other values and their meanings are: 1 - UI for linear incremental translate2 - UI for incremental rotate3 - UI for inclremental scale
incSnapValue / isv		int, float
	Supply the step value which the manipulator owned by the context will use for specified mode.
lockSelection / ls		bool
	If true, this context will never change the current selection. By default this is set to false.
name / n		unicode
	If this is a tool command, name the tool appropriately.
toggleIncSnap / tis		bool
	Toggles (enables/disables) snapping for all modes.
toolFinish / tf		script
	Supply the script that will be run when the user exits the script.
toolStart / ts		script
	Supply the script that will be run when the user first enters the script Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.showManipCtx

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Creates a new show manip context.
pm.showManipCtx()
# Result: u'showManipCtx1' #