(API) Get flag names from MArgList

[Michael Boon]

Hi all

Is there a list anywhere near as good as this one for asking C++ API questions?

I have a plugin that takes a bunch of flags and other arguments. From inside the plugin, I want to be able to print out which flags are in use. Since there are a lot of flags and they are in flux, I'd rather not write a long section of code that goes through them one at a time. Is there a way, using MArgList (or MSyntax, or MArgDatabase) to print out the _names_ of the flags that were specified?

My goal is to print out exactly what the user called (though I don't mind if short and long names are swapped).

Thanks!

[Michael Boon]

Here's the answer.

To the first question, stackoverflow. Specifically http://stackoverflow.com/a/17797823/5184320

To the main question:

#include <string>

#include <sstream>
...
std::stringstream stream;
stream << argList;
std::string str = stream.str();
const char* chr = str.c_str();

[Justin Israel]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:34 PM Michael Boon <boon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's the answer.

To the first question, stackoverflow. Specifically http://stackoverflow.com/a/17797823/5184320

To the main question:

#include <string>

#include <sstream>
...
std::stringstream stream;
stream << argList;
std::string str = stream.str();
const char* chr = str.c_str();

Cool, thanks for confirming that you figured this one out. You are welcome to ask C++ Maya API questions here. The title of the forum suggests we would only accept Python topics but the scope has grown from the original intent. People even ask Python questions unrelated to Maya.

Justin

 

On Friday, 17 February 2017 10:45:35 UTC+11, Michael Boon wrote:

Hi all

Is there a list anywhere near as good as this one for asking C++ API questions?

I have a plugin that takes a bunch of flags and other arguments. From inside the plugin, I want to be able to print out which flags are in use. Since there are a lot of flags and they are in flux, I'd rather not write a long section of code that goes through them one at a time. Is there a way, using MArgList (or MSyntax, or MArgDatabase) to print out the _names_ of the flags that were specified?

My goal is to print out exactly what the user called (though I don't mind if short and long names are swapped).

Thanks!

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