Maya shortcut toggle

Geuse

Hi everybody. I'm trying to create a shortcut that acts as a toggle so I want the KeyPress and KeyRelease to be implemented and run two opposite commands. In this case opening and closing the shelf.

I've tried a few different ways, without any luck. Tried making my own class, inherited from QtWidgets.QShortcut and implementing eventfilter, but seems I don't know what I'm doing.

For reference, this code works, but it doesn't toggle the way I want.

import pymel.core as pm
import maya.mel as mel
from functools import partial
from maya import OpenMayaUI as omui
from PySide2 import QtWidgets, QtGui, QtCore
from shiboken2 import wrapInstance

def getMainMayaWindow():
    mayaMainWindowPtr = omui.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
    mayaMainWindow = wrapInstance(int(mayaMainWindowPtr), QWidget)
    return mayaMainWindow

def shelfHeightToggle():
    gShelfTopLevel = mel.eval('$tmpVar=$gShelfTopLevel')
    value = pm.shelfTabLayout(gShelfTopLevel, q=1, h=1)
    if value == 64:
        value = 94
    else:
        value = 64

    pm.shelfTabLayout(gShelfTopLevel, e=1, h=value)

shelfHeightShortcut = QtWidgets.QShortcut(QtGui.QKeySequence(QtCore.Qt.Key_section), getMainMayaWindow())
shelfHeightShortcut.setContext(QtCore.Qt.ApplicationShortcut)
shelfHeightShortcut.activated.connect(partial(shelfHeightToggle))

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Why not use a toggle action as target of your shortcut ?

Geuse

@SGaist Thank you. I'm not at all familiar with a toggle action so I will see what I can read about it.
With that said. I managed to get it working with creating a class with an event filter method with KeyPress and KeyRelease. But I'm very new so I don't know anything about the best practices.

SGaist

The checked property is what you are looking for.