Maya Mel : Enable or disable button or change background color by another button

Question

How to enable or disable button or change button background color by another button in maya mel. This my code so far.

global string $btn2;

global proc fun(string $btn){
    button -label "button 2" -enable false $btn;
} 
window -width 150;
columnLayout -adjustableColumn true;
    $btn1 = `button -label "button 1" -c "fun $btn2"`;
    $btn2 = `button -label "button 2" -enable true`;
showWindow;

What research have you done so far. Do you have any code that you ve written so far. — kartikg3, Feb 08 '15 at 14:32
[mel documentation](http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/Commands/button.html) — DrHaze, Feb 09 '15 at 11:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 09 '15 at 15:09

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Here is a code snippet that will work:

button "button_name" -edit "True" -backgroundColor "float float float" -enable "boolean";

replace button_name with the name of your button. Replace float float float with float values of the RGB color values egs. "1.0 0.0 0.0" for red.

edited Feb 09 '15 at 15:09

kartikg3

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answered Feb 09 '15 at 10:19

Ari Gold

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Please consider giving explanations to your code, as I have editted your answer. Also please make sure your answer is properly formatted to maintain the quality of this community. – kartikg3 Feb 09 '15 at 14:29

Maya Mel : Enable or disable button or change background color by another button

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