Re: [cgkit-user] Freezing will running a python script with an expression.

[Matthias B. <mat...@gm...>]

Sorry for the delay...

Luke Titley wrote:
> Just run these lines of mel in Maya8.0's mel script editor.
> 
> ///// START
> // Create an expression called "FreezeMe" which uses Maya Python to 
> print the string "Freeze Expression" to stdout.
> expression -s "py \"print 'Freeze Expression'\" ;"  -o "" -n "FreezeMe" 
> -ae 1 -uc all ;
> 
> // Use Maya Python to change the time/frame on the timeline ( and 
> therefore update all the DG nodes ). The freeze occures at this point.
> py "from maya.mel import currentTime; currentTime(2,e=None) "  ;
> 
> ///// END
> 
> I imagine it is something to do with a call to the py mel command which 
> invokes another call of the py mell command ?
> If thats the case there may also be an issue with Maya scriptNode's 
> containing python code.

Well, I could reproduce the above behavior when using the 0.9.3 plugin. 
The good news is that everything goes fine with the latest version of 
the plugin (in svn). However, I can't really say right now what caused 
the above problem but I did change a couple of things related to the way 
that MEL commands are invoked.

- Matthias -