Making_the_Script_Editor_spit_back_Python_code_instead_of_MEL

[Sahak Sahakian]

Hi guys.

How wold one go about making ScriptEditor spit back its history in Python?

cheers

[Jan:]

For pymel you can use the tools provided with it.
Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\pymel\tools\scriptEditor

Put the pymelScrollFieldReporter into the plugins dir

Replace the original scriptEditorPanel.mel file inside:
Maya2012\scripts\startup
with the one from the pymel tools folder

you need to change a few lines though in the py file to make it work with maya 2011 and 2012:
add:
from pymel.tools.mel2py import melparse

change :
mparser = mel2py.MelParser()
to:
mparser = melparse.MelParser()

As for maya python itself there should be a simmilar way but i have not looked into it.
Note though that using the pymel script editor panel slows down your code quite a lot especially when printing.
and some features are disabled in the script editor!!!

2011/10/21 Sahak Sahakian <loves2...@gmail.com>

Hi guys.

How wold one go about making ScriptEditor spit back its history in Python?

cheers

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[Eric Nersesian]

Hi Jan,

I followed your instructions but my script editor is still spitting
out MEL. I made sure that pymelScrollFieldReporter.py is both loaded
and auto loaded in Maya's Plug-in Manager but its still showing MEL.
When I start up Maya these warnings are shown in the Output Window:

WARNING: No t_error rule is defined
WARNING: Token 'COMMENT_BLOCK' defined, but not used
WARNING: Token 'COMMENT' defined, but not used
WARNING: There are 2 unused tokens
WARNING: no p_error() function is defined
WARNING: Symbol 'element_list' is unreachable

Also, let me walk you through what I did to see if I followed your
instructions correctly:

1. Copy Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\pymel\tools\scriptEditor
\pymelScrollFieldReporter.py to Maya2012\bin\plug-ins

2. Replace Maya2012\scripts\startup\scriptEditorPanel.mel with

Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\pymel\tools\scriptEditor

\scriptEditorPanel.mel

3. Within Maya2012\bin\plug-ins\pymelScrollFieldReporter.py:

add: from pymel.tools.mel2py import melparse
change: mparser = mel2py.MelParser() to mparser =
melparse.MelParser()

Thanks for any help you can provide,
Eric

On Oct 21, 8:00 am, "Jan: " <jan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> For pymel you can use the tools provided with it.
> Maya2012\Python\lib\site-packages\pymel\tools\scriptEditor
>
> Put the pymelScrollFieldReporter into the plugins dir
>
> Replace the original scriptEditorPanel.mel file inside:
> Maya2012\scripts\startup
> with the one from the pymel tools folder
>
> you need to change a few lines though in the py file to make it work with
> maya 2011 and 2012:
> add:
> from pymel.tools.mel2py import melparse
>
> change :
> mparser = mel2py.MelParser()
> to:
> mparser = melparse.MelParser()
>
> As for maya python itself there should be a simmilar way but i have not
> looked into it.
> Note though that using the pymel script editor panel slows down your code
> quite a lot especially when printing.
> and some features are disabled in the script editor!!!
>

> 2011/10/21 Sahak Sahakian <loves2anim...@gmail.com>

[Jan:]

oh sorry forgot to mention one thing.
in the script editor goto:
History -> HistoryOutput -> Convert mel to Python.

That should do the trick.

2011/10/21 Eric Nersesian <eric.ne...@my3dti.com>

[Eric Nersesian]

Yup, that did it for me. Thanks for the help! This is an awesome way
to just do the full conversion to python mentally for me.

On Oct 21, 10:31 am, "Jan: " <jan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> oh sorry forgot to mention one thing.
> in the script editor goto:
> History -> HistoryOutput -> Convert mel to Python.
>
> That should do the trick.
>

> 2011/10/21 Eric Nersesian <eric.nerses...@my3dti.com>