Updating Attribute Editor or tabs

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#1

Hi all, I am trying to update all the tabs of the shaders (in the Attribute Editor) for every new shaders added. I chanced upon this Mel command - updateAE that I gather the information from here

I tried doing a simple test, while I have a few surface shaders in scene, and running the following code:

ssList = cmds.ls(type = 'surfaceShader')

for each in ssList:
    mm.eval("updateAE \"string\" " + each)

But I got the following error instead,

TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects

or at times, this error:

RuntimeError: Error occurred during execution of MEL script
Line 1.33: Wrong number of arguments on call to updateAE.

Is this a viable solution else, are there any other similar scripting methods that will enable to update the attribute editor without using maya.api if possible?

#2

Your syntax was off in the MEL statement I believe which gives you the last error. Using the string .format command as shown here is a little cleaner and does better type conversion. Add the two following print statements to see why the variable sometimes contains a list like this:


ssList = cmds.ls(type = 'surfaceShader')

for each in ssList:
    print(each)
    print(type(each))
    mm.eval('updateAE "{0}";'.format(each))
#3

[QUOTE=btribble;24954]Your syntax was off in the MEL statement I believe which gives you the last error. Using the string .format command as shown here is a little cleaner and does better type conversion. Add the two following print statements to see why the variable sometimes contains a list like this:


ssList = cmds.ls(type = 'surfaceShader')

for each in ssList:
    print(each)
    print(type(each))
    mm.eval('updateAE "{0}";'.format(each))

[/QUOTE]

Thanks btribble, I found another similar method but have forgotten to input it here.

Thanks again