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ls() includes a type flag, which lets you find scene nodes of a particular type. For example: cameras = cmds.ls(type='camera') // [u'topShape', u'sideShape', u'perspShape', u'frontShape'] You can search for multiple types in the same call: geometry = cmds.ls(type=('mesh', 'nurbsCurve', 'nu...

/** * Runs user-specified code when the given javascript object is garbage collected */ template<class CALLBACK_FUNCTION> void global_set_weak(v8::Isolate * isolate, const v8::Local<v8::Object> & javascript_object, CALLBACK_FUNCTION function) { struct SetWeakCallbackData{...

Define a new basic command A macro can be defined using \newcommand. For example: \newcommand{\foo}{Just foo, you see?} defines a macro \foo that expands to Just foo, you see?. It can then be used like any built-in command, for example after that definition: He said: ``\foo'' expands to He...

The idea is to have one or more control machines from where you can issue ad-hoc commands to remote machines (via ansible tool) or run a sequenced instruction set via playbooks (via ansible-playbook tool). Basically, we use Ansible control machine, this will typically be your desktop, laptop or s...

# create a window with a button that closes the window when clicked window = cmds.window(title='example window') # create the window layout = cmds.columnLayout(adjustableColumn=True) # add a vertical layout def close_window(*_): cmds.deleteUI(window) # delet...

Reading a text file line-by-line A proper way to read a text file line-by-line till the end is usually not clear from ifstream documentation. Let's consider some common mistakes done by beginner C++ programmers, and a proper way to read the file. Lines without whitespace characters For the sake o...

Basic printing std::ostream_iterator allows to print contents of an STL container to any output stream without explicit loops. The second argument of std::ostream_iterator constructor sets the delimiter. For example, the following code: std::vector<int> v = {1,2,3,4}; std::copy(v.begin(), v...

The try...catch...finally statement combines exception handling with clean-up code. The finally block contains code that will be executed in all circumstances. This makes them suitable for resource management, and other kinds of cleanup. Try-finally Here is an example of the simpler (try...finally...

To invalidate your old data and restart existing loader you can use restartLoader() method: private void reload() { getLoaderManager().reastartLoader(LOADER_ID, Bundle.EMPTY, this); }

Given a simple sitecore item: Item item; The item itself does not contain it's url. To obtain a url for an item you need to make a call to the static class Sitecore.Links.LinkManager string url = LinkManager.GetItemUrl(item); an overload of this accepts a UrlOptions class: UrlOptions option...

Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()

First we must edit the SSH daemon config file. Though under different Linux distributions this may be located in different directories, usually it is stored under /etc/ssh/sshd_config Use your text editor to change the values set in this file, all lines starting with # are commented out and must ha...

Passport must be initialized using passport.initialize() middleware. To use login sessions, passport.session() middleware is required. Note that passport.serialize() and passport.deserializeUser() methods must be defined. Passport will serialize and deserialize user instances to and from the sessi...

Since ls() finds objects by names, it's a handy way to find out if an object is present in the scene. ls() with a list of objects will only return the ones which are in the scene. available_characters = cmds.ls('fred', 'barney', 'wilma', 'dino') # available_characters will contain only the named...

GDAL is available in the default repositories of most popular Linux distributions and can be installed in the same way that packages in a Linux distribution are usually installed. apt-get install libgdal-dev CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH and C_INCLUDE_PATH are necessary in order to include these correspondin...

Entity entity; //The entity you want to teleport Entity teleportTo; //The entity where you want <entity> to be teleported to boolean success = entity.teleport(teleportTo); //Attempting to teleport. if(success) { //Teleport was successful }else { //Teleport wasn't successful } ...

Entity toBeTeleported; //The entity you want to teleport Location teleportTo = new Location(world,x,y,z,yaw,pitch); //The location to teleport to boolean success = toBeTeleported.teleport(teleportTo); if(success) { //Teleport was successful }else { //Teleport wasn't success...

Java's checked exception mechanism requires the programmer to declare that certain methods could throw specifed checked exceptions. This is done using the throws clause. For example: public class OddNumberException extends Exception { // a checked exception } public void checkEven(int number) ...

Install from npm chai, chai-immutable, and ts-node npm install --save-dev chai chai-immutable ts-node Install types for mocha and chai npm install --save-dev @types/mocha @types/chai Write simple test file: import {List, Set} from 'immutable'; import * as chai from 'cha...

Functions and procedures in packages can be overloaded. The following package TEST has two procedures called print_number, which behave differently depending on parameters they are called with. create or replace package TEST is procedure print_number(p_number in integer); procedure print_numb...