disable maya window refresh

[wbate]

I have been searching high and low, does anyone know a command/method
for disabling the refreshing of the main window/interface? I have
scripts that run much faster if Maya isn't updating the display
continuously. Selecting another application that covers Maya's main
window makes the script execution instantaneous. Any thoughts/ideas?

[Stab]

The only way I find to deal with this is to iconised the maya window
something like:

global string $gMainWindow;
window -e -vis 0 $gMainWindow;

I don't know the equivalent in python yet ...
I think you can even show a big window that cover the whole maya
window to force the window to not refresh...

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[wbate]

Thanks for your suggestions!

I tried to make the main window invisible but it did not seem to work
(Maya auto-generated a replacement). I am currently creating a window
that covers the screen, executing my main procedure, then deleting the
window. It just seems there should be a more elegant solution...

On Oct 9, 7:43 am, Stab <jcaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only way I find to deal with this is to iconised the maya window
> something like:
>
> global string $gMainWindow;
> window  -e -vis 0 $gMainWindow;
>
> I don't know the equivalent in python yet ...
> I think you can even show a big window that cover the whole maya
> window to force the window to not refresh...
>

> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:22 PM, wbate <scupf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been searching high and low, does anyone know a command/method
> > for disabling the refreshing of the main window/interface?  I have
> > scripts that run much faster if Maya isn't updating the display
> > continuously.  Selecting another application that covers Maya's main
> > window makes the script execution instantaneous.  Any thoughts/ideas?
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------
> Julien Caillaud - Stab
>
> site:  stabalarash.com

> msn:  darks...@hotmail.com
> ...

[nick puckett]

If it is a problem, why don't you just run the script in batch mode (ie no GUI) ? its really easy and extremely fast.

[pierre brindel]

Hello, it's not python... But when I needed to do some like that. I putted
the Ouliner in a full view.
it's working if the problem is refreshing 3d...

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From: "wbate" <scup...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 3:58 PM
To: "python_inside_maya" <python_in...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [Maya-Python Club:1190] Re: disable maya window refresh

[Matt Estela]

same here, better yet open a single viewport that definitely won't be
updated as the scene changes, like the render view or the visor.
Conversely there's panels you absolutely never want visible when
running complex scripts, as they update like crazy and slow things
down. 2 worst offenders I've found are the graph editor and
relationship editor.