Question

I’m trying to create a function for some buttons. I don’t want to create one for each button so wrote this

def setSmValue (self, attr):
    selection = mc.ls(sl=True)
    lightShapes = [mc.pickWalk(shape, direction="down")[0] for shape in selection if mc.nodeType(mc.pickWalk(shape, direction="down")) in ['directionalLight','pointLight','spotLight','areaLight']]
    mc.select(selection, r=True)
    value = mc.textFieldButtonGrp(self.smapResolutionField, q=True, text=True) 
    for l in lightShapes:
        mc.setAttr('%s.%s' % (l, attr), float(value))

This is working but is not good for all the buttons. I would like to change

self.smapResolutionField

to something like

('self.%s' % attr)

I tryed all I could think about but seems like I don’t understand too clearly the use of self 🙂

Any hint?

Thanks

EDIT: I probably forgot to mention that I’m using that command to query a textField (the user put the value there and I need to read it back)

Answer 1

You can use:

getattr(self, attr)

to get it 🙂