Which panel is associated with a particular camera? MEL

Question

I know you can query which camera is associated with a particular panel. But, is there a way you can do it the other way around?

I want to be able to see what panel is associate with a particular camera.

Example:

getPanel -q mainCamera;

// modelPanel1

Thanks for the help yall

Answer 1

This script returns which panels are associated with a particular camera (in this case: persp).

Mel version:

proc string[] getPanelFromCamera(string $cameraName){
    string $listPanel[];
    for( $panelName in `getPanel -type modelPanel`){
        if( `modelPanel -query -camera $panelName` == $cameraName){
            $listPanel[size($listPanel)] = $panelName;
        }
    }
    return $listPanel;
}

print `getPanelFromCamera("persp")`;

Python version:

import maya.cmds as cmds

def getPanelFromCamera(cameraName):
    listPanel=[]
    for panelName in cmds.getPanel( type="modelPanel" ):
        if cmds.modelPanel( panelName,query=True, camera=True) == cameraName:
            listPanel.append( panelName )
    return listPanel

print getPanelFromCamera("persp")

Note: I'm usually don't script in mel, so the mel version of this code is a litteral translation from the python version. I also thought that the Python version might be useful for future readers.