pumpThread is meant for pre-2011 Maya. When Maya was not Built with Qt and one needed to negotiate which event list is in control. It is still in the release due to some customers needing those files available where they were in previous releases.
The advice to eliminate the pumpthread and QtGui.Application from your script is good. If you'd like a script that can run inside of or outside of Maya, you might be able to do a check before starting QtGui.Application, and if you are inside of Maya, don't start start QtGui.Application. JohnCreson MayaQA On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Amorano <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no disadvantage in 2011 per se. It really depends on what you > want to accomplish. > > For example: I have a ton of utilities that access various data stores > which need to run inside and outside of Maya. > > Using a mechanism like pumpthread in pre-2011 world allows my PyQT > apps to run without blowing up or stalling Maya. > > Obviously they have written a better way to hook your stuff (written > with PyQT) into 2011, but we will most likely never use it because we > need the extra control of running it outside of Maya. > > > > On Jun 26, 1:41 pm, efecto <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there. >> >> Thanks for your solution. >> >> Eliminating a line with pumpThread seems to have worked! >> >> I'm very new to pumpThread.. what's the disadvantage of not having >> pumpThread with pyQT in Maya? Why was it causing to crash? >> >> Thanks! >> >> On Jun 26, 11:58 pm, Jimmy Caron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > try this without pumpthread and no QtGui.Application. In maya 2011 all my >> > custom gui work like this on Window and OSX and work well. >> >> > import sys >> > from PyQt4 import QtGui as qt >> >> > hello = qt.QLabel("Hello world!", None) >> > hello.show() >> >> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 6:14 AM, efecto <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > Hello tehre. >> >> > > Thank you for your response. >> >> > > I have made the environment variable and now I seem to be able to >> > > 'import pumpThread' without any errors. >> >> > > However, when I try to run a script in /devkit/ import mysample.py; >> > > mysample.mysample() it launches an UI but then maya completely >> > > freezes. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? >> >> > > Cheers, >> > > D >> >> > > On Jun 26, 8:33 pm, Erkan Özgür Yılmaz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > You need to add this path: >> >> > > > for windows: >> > > > C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\devkit\other\PyQtScripts\qt >> >> > > > for linux: >> > > > /usr/autodesk/maya/devkit/other/PyQtScripts/qt >> >> > > > to your PYTHONPATH environment variable (in the system environments or >> > > > in >> > > > Maya.env file), or append it to sys.path by >> > > > import sys >> > > > sys.append( the_path ) >> >> > > > just before your code >> >> > > > E.Ozgur Yilmaz >> > > > Lead Technical Director >> > > > eoyilmaz.blogspot.comwww.ozgurfx.com >> >> > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:59 AM, efecto <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > > Hello. >> >> > > > > I have been trying to run the example in Maya 2011 eg) devkit\other >> > > > > \PyQtScripts\qt\myMakeStuff.py >> >> > > > > but I got some problems. I have also tried from zGUI.makeStuff import >> > > > > Ui_Dialog but got the same error. >> >> > > > > import sys >> > > > > from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui >> > > > > from makeStuff import Ui_Dialog >> > > > > import maya.cmds as cmds >> > > > > import pumpThread as pt >> >> > > > > Error: ImportError: No module named makeStuff >> > > > > # Error: ImportError: No module named pumpThread # >> >> > > > > This simple code works though. >> > > > > import sys >> > > > > from PyQt4 import QtGui as qt >> > > > > app = qt.QApplication(sys.argv) >> > > > > hello = qt.QLabel("Hello world!", None) >> > > > > hello.show() >> >> > > > > Does anyone know what I'm missing? >> >> > > > > Thanks! >> >> > > > > -- >> > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >> >> > > -- >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
