Complete Maya Programming Volume II

1.2 Executing MEL Code in the Script Editor 5

The previous steps need to be completed for each new Maya session. Thus, if Maya

is restarted the previous steps should be performed.

1.2

EXECUTING MEL CODE IN THE

SCRIPT EDITOR

There are a lot of snippets of MEL code throughout this book. Many readers will

want to type this MEL code into the Script Editor and then execute it. This will

work fine in most cases. There will often be a problem when you execute different

blocks of MEL code that use the same variable name but assume a different type.

This problem is demonstrated in Maya as follows.

1.

Open