What´s new in Maya

[Ævar Guðmundsson]

Hi there

  Has anyone managed to tap into the "New features" highlighting in Maya through the API?

  This page appears to list all the new features, apart from the feature which highlights them....

http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/WN_Maya.htm,topicNumber=d30e6984

  The green stuff that covers the new buttons is what I'm on about ( haven't figured out what they call those so I can't search for it ).  I've been building a series of dynamic interactive tutorials to be ran inside the Maya workspace and I'm hoping to use those to highlight next action and guide the person learning through the UI as he/she reworks some practical examples with their hands on the product so to say.  This in conjunction with the access to the grease pencil allowing tutorials to draw examples on top of the workspace and movie textures embedded on objects to indicate where to click to see the effect in action should hopefully provide a fresh approach to getting inside Maya with ease. 

  Any and all help appreciated of course, primarily I'm looking for the terminology Autodesk use for the feature highlighting so I can study them further but if anyone has code snippets and has been playing along the same lines there is a free hat* in it for you if you share!

  -Ævar

*free hat meaning in this case a free hat modelling tutorial built using this methodology but I´ll do my best to source an actual hat if preferred :)

[Ævar Guðmundsson]

Hehe, I can't believe this is the only unanswered question on the forum this year.  Kind of ironic that we are a Maya help forum but none of us know how to tap into the help API :)

  Anyone?  As before my limitation is not knowing the terminology used for the green UI highlighting on new features and as odd as it sounds and been asking around for a year now I've not found anyone who knows the answer to this one ( am tempted to file the lack of information about this as a bug report towards Autodesk but surely someone here has tried this... ) 

[Marcus Ottosson]

If nothing else, you should be able to get a handle to the Qt instance displaying those highlights and possibly from there work out what they are called, how they are triggered and possibly implemented.

Could possibly be as simple as:

>> menuitem_widget.highlight(True)

On 7 March 2014 15:20, Ævar Guðmundsson <aevar.gu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hehe, I can't believe this is the only unanswered question on the forum this year.  Kind of ironic that we are a Maya help forum but none of us know how to tap into the help API :)

  Anyone?  As before my limitation is not knowing the terminology used for the green UI highlighting on new features and as odd as it sounds and been asking around for a year now I've not found anyone who knows the answer to this one ( am tempted to file the lack of information about this as a bug report towards Autodesk but surely someone here has tried this... ) 

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[Tim Fowler]

The UI widgets that support the highlighting all have a "-version" flag that you put the Maya version that the feature first shipped in (e.g. menuItem -version "2014").  Not all widgets are supported though and I'm not sure if there's a master list of them although you can just check the help doc's for any command you're interested in.

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