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Sunday
Jul192009

Maya Floating Channel Box Button

Although I'd love a full sized Wacom Cintiq tablet, the $2000 price tag is way beyond my budget.  Aye, the $1000 price tag for the 12 inch Cinitiq isn't exactly cheap, either.  Nonetheless, the mini-Cintiq is a pretty worthwhile piece of hardware, and at this point I wouldn't want to design or animate without it. 

That said, when you're using the little Cintiq, screen space is ESSENTIAL.  And anyone who's animated in Maya knows that the UI gets a little . . . cluttered.  True, you can toggle to a full screen view (CTRL + Space), but you lose the Channel Box, which is a vital organ when animating.  So, after many searches for vast stretches of time, I found this script over at the the Autodesk Area forum, posted by Michiel Duvekot:

window -widthHeight 200 600 myChannelBox;
formLayout form;
channelBox cb;
formLayout -e
    -af cb "top"0
    -af cb "left"0
    -af cb "right"0
    -af cb "bottom"0
     form;
showWindow;

Thanks for posting this handy little script!

 

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