Save file dialog

[likage]

I have looked at the list of maya commands available but I am unable to find any dialogs that are similar to 'Save Scene as' and I chanced upon fileDialog and fileDialog2.

I can try using mel.eval('SaveSceneAs') but it does seems like a practical approach, maybe? And so, I am going to use fileDialog2 since it is mentioned that fileDialog is going to be deprecated but as I tried it out

import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.fileDialog2(ds=2, fileFilter="Maya Ascii (*.ma)")

my scene file was not saved at all. Am I doing it wrong somewhere?

Additonally, was wondering, if it is possible to prompt a popup window (like a Ok/Cancel), if user clicks on OK, the fileDialog2 will appears for them to save the file etc..

[Eduardo Grana]

Hello Likage,

Be aware that the fileDialog2 command only gets a filename(or filenames)

then you need to rename the scene, and save it.

I dont have maya around to check it out,

but it should be something like this

import maya.cmds as cmds
name =  cmds.fileDialog2(ds=2, fileFilter="Maya Ascii (*.ma)")

#not sure if fileDialog2 returns a single name or a list,

# in case it's a list use name[0]

cmds.file( rename=name  )
cmds.file( save=True, type='mayaAscii' )

Cheers,

Eduardo

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