I find myself constantly changing the update mode in my Houdini scenes. That causes a lot of mouse milage and clicks. I think a hotkey to toggle this would be quite useful.
Georg Kaltenbrunner
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so to answer my own question:
if you create a shelf tool with the following python script:
if hou.ui.updateMode() == hou.updateMode.AutoUpdate:
hou.ui.setUpdateMode(hou.updateMode.Manual)
else:
hou.ui.setUpdateMode(hou.updateMode.AutoUpdate)
you can easily assign a hotkey by ctrl - alt - shift clicking on it.
I hope somebody finds this as useful as I do.
Cool! Also, I had no idea about CTRL+ALT+SHIFT for setting shelf hotkeys. Neat.