Hotline

Hotline is a pop-up input field written in Python with PyQt/PySide modeled after the command palette from Sublime Text. The API can be used to extend and customize Hotline by using the Context, Mode, and Command objects.

Available Contexts

• Autodesk Maya

  • Rename - rename selected nodes using hotline's Renamer. The following

    tokens are available.

    • Pre_+ - adds a prefix
    • +_Suf - adds a suffix
    • -rem - removes a substring
    • search replace - search for a string a replace it
    • full_name_## - full name replacement with a padded index

    • full_name_##(10) - full name replacement with padded index and

      custom start value.

  • Select - select nodes using glob and regex patterns
  • Connect - connect attributes
  • Node - create DAG and DG nodes
  • Python - execute python commands
  • Mel - execute mel commands

• Windows

  • Powershell - execute Powershell commands
  • CMD - execute Batch commands
  • Run - run
  • Python - execute python commands

Using Hotline

from hotline import Hotline
hl = Hotline()
hl.show()

Hotline will attempt to use the best available context. You can also specify one.

from hotline import Hotline, MayaContext
hl = Hotline(MayaContext)
hl.show()

Hotline in Autodesk Maya

To allow for maximum flexibility hotline doesn't do anything sneaky like use singletons or a cache to maintain instances for you. In Maya this means you'll need to keep track of an instance of the Hotline ui. Here's one way to do that:

from hotline import Hotline
import __main__

if not hasattr(__main__, 'hl'):
    __main__.hl = Hotline()

__main__.hl.show()

Create a new runtime command with the above code and bind a hotkey to it.

Install Hotline

pip install hotline