yea you should be able to loop through the returnedPointArray
the get function helps convert the MPointArray into a C++ friendly array of
double arrays which is not in python

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM, pjrich <[email protected]> wrote:

> I initialize the variables, then call the allIntersections function,
> which takes those variables as arguments, and I'd been assuming it
> sets the values of the variables automagically.
>
> Then I'm just using for loops to extract: "for x in hitPoints", etc.
>
> Part of the problem is that I don't know how to look at the array all
> at once, to see how the data is formatted inside. When I try to print
> the array, I just get a pointer to the array, though I can see there
> are MFloatPoints inside. When I try to do a get() as suggested by the
> docs I get c++ errors. :P
>
> I'll try the range iterator next though, thanks for that suggestion.
>
> On Feb 23, 1:00 am, damon shelton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > how are you looping through to get and set the intersection points?
> >
> > are you using MPointArray().append(MPoint(x, y, z))
> >
> > and when getting the value are you looping through the array and getting
> > each element?
> >
> > example code:
> >
> > import maya.OpenMaya as OpenMaya
> >
> > pointArray = OpenMaya.MPointArray()
> > for i in range(25):
> >     pointArray.append(OpenMaya.MPoint(i, i, i))
> >
> > for i in range(pointArray.length()):
> >     print pointArray[i].x, pointArray[i].y, pointArray[i].z
>
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