Subject: getting current time 2003-12-16 - By Erick Miller
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MAnimControl::currentTime ()
Berj Bannayan wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Is there a better (more succinct) way to get the current frame than this?
>
>double
>getCurrentTime()
>{
> MSelectionList selection;
> MObject time_node_obj;
> MTime current_time;
> MPlug out_time_plug;
>
> selection.add("time1");
> selection.getDependNode(0, time_node_obj);
>
> MFnDependencyNode time_node(time_node_obj);
>
> out_time_plug = time_node.findPlug("outTime");
> out_time_plug.getValue(current_time);
>
> return current_time.as(MTime::uiUnit());
>}
>
>This works fine but it seems a little cumbersome (especially when I add in
>error checking). I feel like I'm missing something.
>
>Thanks,
>Berj
>
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