How can I pass a Mel string variable into a python call from within a mel script ?

so I want to do something like this ... but this doesn't work:

string $myString;
string $myList =...

Thank you !

I just want to share these tutorials I developed last year. Any feedback is welcome.

http://demos.zanefx.com/dynamics/

Enjoy !

Has anyone used the Python scripting engine introduced with Maya 8.5 ? I'm interested in feedback on how well it works. I'd love to dump Mel for Python on my next project.

Thanks !

Hey ... I saved a particle's initial state and now I want to delete it and start all over with my emmission. Is there an easy way to do that ?

This is NOT a fluid ... just a regular particle...

Hey Dann,

I wasn't the original poster here ... but I'm pretty sure the book is "MEL Scripting for Maya Animators" by Mark R. Wilkins & Chris Kazmier ... Morgan Kaufmann publisher
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try inserting this statement at start of proc :

if (`window -exists crowdWin` == true)
deleteUI crowdWin;

BEFORE you define crowdWin in this statement:

window
-title "Crowd System"...

Is there a mel command to determine whether a given channel of an object is animated or not ?

Thanks ...

I am designing a simple user interface. I want user to input 2 separate float values, a text string, and select from a choice of 2 items. I want the window I create to behave like a `promptDialog ......