Maya API naming conventions

Kind of Plug-in

In general, the following naming convention is used by the examples so you can identify the kind of plug-in the example based on its file name.

Example :

In customWorkCmd.h

class CustomWorkCmd : public MPxCommand
{
    // Declarations
};

Use kCmdName in class members

Example :

In customWorkCmd.h

class CustomWorkCmd : public MPxCommand
{
public:
    static const char * kCmdName;
}

In customWorkCmd.cpp

const char * CustomWorkCmd::kCmdName = "customWork";

Prefix by "k" (constant variable)

Suffix	Description
SN	The flag's short name
LN	The flag's long name

Example :

const char * kListSelectedSN = "-ls";
const char * kListSelectedLN = "-listSelected";

Useful Macro :

#define FLAG(f, sn, ln) \
    const char * f##SN = sn; \
    const char * f##LN = ln;

FLAG(kListSelected, -ls, -listSelected);