pymel.core.context.lassoContext¶

lassoContext(*args, **kwargs)¶

Creates a context to perform selection via a lasso. Use for irregular selection regions, where the marquee-styleselect of the selectContextis inappropriate.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
drawClosed / dc		bool
	Turns the closed display of the lasso on/off.
exists / ex		bool
	Returns true or false depending upon whether the specified object exists. Other flags are ignored.
fastComponents / fc		bool
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.
name / n		unicode
	If this is a tool command, name the tool appropriately. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.lassoContext

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Create a new lasso context, then switch to it
pm.lassoContext('lassoContext1')
# Result: u'lassoContext1' #
pm.setToolTo('lassoContext1')