How to get from Maya event of a change highlight objects in the scene?

Question

I\'m using: Maya2014 + pyqt4.8 + python2.7

I\'m doing an application which allows you to speed up and simplify the selection of items in Maya. Is a selector which th

Answer 1

You can use scriptJob command for this.

scriptJob let's you specify code or perform some action(s) when specified condition is met or a specified event is triggered.

For selection change, you'd use the event flag with "SelectionChanged" as parameter:

myScriptJobID = scriptJob(event=["SelectionChanged", your_function])

# You can later use this scriptJob's id to modify or delete it like so:

scriptJob(kill=myScriptJobID)

Check out the docs for more options.