Hey,
Long story short: you are storing strings (the name of the node) in
the textfield.
Maya works because the setAttr expects a string. Pymel works with
objects when doing object method calls.
Thus it is tellubg you the string you stored, a unicode object, does
not contain the methods you are attempting to utilize, and rightly so.
I do believe using the name as input to a PyNode will give you want
you desire:
for jnt in tmpJnts2Unlock:
myNode = pm.PyNode(jnt)
if jnt.hasAttr('liw'):
Something you may want to try, typicalling in python it is easier to
ask forgiveness than permission (duck-typing ftw!):
try:
jnt.liw.get()
except:
# I dont have an liw attribute....
Cheers
On May 11, 11:38 pm, PixelMuncher <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working on a joint locking tool for weight painting.
> It includes a UI which permits the user to type the names of the
> joints into a textfield or to create a list from a selection via a
> button.
>
> If a list is created via a button, I update the text field to list the
> selected joints.
> This allow the user to update the selection via keyboard while they
> are working.
>
> I convert the list of joints to their names, separated by spaces,
> before placing them into the textfield:
>
> numJnts = len(tmpJnts2Unlock)
> count = 1
> for jnt in tmpJnts2Unlock:
> if count < numJnts:
> print ('if add jnt')
> tmpJntList += jnt.name() + ' '
> else:
> print ('else add jnt')
> tmpJntList += jnt.name()
> count += 1
> textField('jnt2Unlock', e = 1, text = tmpJntList)
>
> So far, so good.
> When its time to unlock the joints, I retrieve the list from the
> textfield, and at that point I can no longer access the attributes via
> PyMEL
>
> tmpJnts2UnlockString = textField('jnt2Unlock', query=True, text =
> True )
> tmpJnts2Unlock = tmpJnts2UnlockString.split(' ')
>
> for jnt in tmpJnts2Unlock:
> if jnt.hasAttr('liw'):
> AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'hasAttr' #
>
> or
> print tmpJnts2Unlock[0].name()
> AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'name' #
>
> If I use maya.cmds, it works:
> if (cmds.attributeQuery( 'liw', node=jnt, exists = 1 ) ):
> cmds.setAttr (jnt + '.liw', 0)
>
> Anyone know the fix?
> Thanks much.
>
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