mouse pointer

[viky....@gmail.com]

hi!
is it possible to program maya so that if i take my mouse over some
object and i should know the name of that object????

[John Creson]

if you right click over the object, the context sensitive menu will
also tell you the name of the object.

[Ravi Jagannadhan]

You could, in theory, trap a mouse-move message and see if the
cursor's co-ordinates are within the viewport, then drop a ray from
the cursor to see what in the scene it intersects, and get that
object's name.

John's solution is better, but if you wanted to code it up yourself, I
think you could use the API to do this (Windows, not sure how Linux
handles mouse events).

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