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Toggle xRay for selected object in Maya with script

I'm new to mel script. I know that I can toggle manually xray with the code.

displaySurface -xRay true; //Xray on
displaySurface -xRay false; //Xray off

But I want it to toggle automatically, like

if(xRay on)
 set xRay off
else
 set xRay on

I know that I can check xRay on or off with the command

displaySurface -query -xRay;

But I just can't put this command into if block. I tried many things like the code below, but nothing works.

if(`displaySurface -query -xRay` == 1) // Error: line 1: Cannot use data of type int[] in a scalar operation. // 
print("To be or not to be");
Solution

  • Looks like displaySurface -query -xRay is returning an array. This worked for me:

    int $y[] = `displaySurface -query -xRay`;

if( $y[0] == 1) 
print("To be or not to be");