topic Re: Maya Flag error in Maya Programming Forum

Maya Flag error

jayantbhatt07 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:17:35 GMT

Anyone can help me with this. The command is giving me an error

Error = ( // Error: line 15: Flags must come before objects: -ed )

textFieldButtonGrp -buttonLabel "Browse" -tx $cfp -bc rsFileDialog rsTxtFld -ed true filepath;

Re: Maya Flag error

rajasekaransurjen — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:41:11 GMT

textFieldButtonGrp -buttonLabel "Browse" -tx $cfp -bc rsFileDialog -ed true filepath;

Re: Maya Flag error

jayantbhatt07 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:07:19 GMT

//Code by rajasekaransurjen

{ string $sn = `file -q -sn`;
string $cfp = `dirname( $sn )`;

if (`window -exists ScreenCapture`) //closes window if already open
deleteUI ScreenCapture;

window -title "ScreenCapture" ScreenCapture; //creates window

rowColumnLayout -numberOfColumns 4 -columnAttach 1 "left" 0
-columnWidth 1 40 -columnWidth 50 500;
text -label "Path";
textFieldButtonGrp -buttonLabel "Browse" -tx $cfp -bc rsFileDialog rsTxtFld -ed true filepath;
button -w 60 -h 28 -label "Capture" -command "Capture";

// show the window we last created
showWindow;
}

proc rsFileDialog()

{
string $rsPath[] = `fileDialog2 -ds 1 -fm 3`;
textFieldButtonGrp -e -tx $rsPath[0] rsTxtFld ;
}

global proc Capture()
{

string $path = `textField -q -tx filepath`;
string $k = ($path + "/snapshot");
string $ff = ".png";

string $node[] = `ls -sl`;
{

setAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.imageFormat" 8;
playblast -st 1 -et 1 -v 0 -fmt "image" -qlt 100 -p 100 -w 2000 -h 2000 -f $k;
}

clear $node;
}

Re: Maya Flag error

jayantbhatt07 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:08:54 GMT

When I added you line error was ( // Error: line 31: Object 'rsTxtFld' not found. )

Re: Maya Flag error

tkaap2 — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:25:39 GMT

Skimming this script, this line that was triggering your original problem:

textFieldButtonGrp -buttonLabel "Browse" -tx $cfp -bc rsFileDialog rsTxtFld -ed true filepath;

Should probably be: (rsTxtFld moved to the end)

textFieldButtonGrp -buttonLabel "Browse" -tx $cfp -bc rsFileDialog -ed true filepath rsTxtFld;

The error "Flags must come before objects" means that in the grammar of the command, "verb, adverbs, object", the final object you are operating on has to come last. In this case, the command `textFieldButtonGrp` is creating the `rsTxtFld` object and assigning it that name. Everything in the middle is controlled by flags (-stuff -that -follows -dashes) or flag values (-this value -that value -the other value). The object needs to come last.

Later in the script, that `rsTxtFld` object is being updated/edited, and if it is not named here, it will not be found. (That creates the error in Message 4 in this thread).

Re: Maya Flag error

jayantbhatt07 — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:11:08 GMT

Hi thank you so much for you help.

Re: Maya Flag error

saptadwip9 — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:40:04 GMT

how to fix this