Maya's GUI is mostly built with Mel. Mel intern is communicating with the the Mel engine and thus the core API and then building QWidgets. Changing the GUI to use Qt has given the Maya developers a single API to develop cross platform. To build a Qt application in Maya you don't need to install PyQt. Maya is a Qt app and so any window you build in maya is a QWidget. The mel scripting engine is providing you the ability to make Qt Widgets natively without installing PyQt. Thus Maya does not have to buy a licence from riverbank to ship PyQt with the product.
This just means the fashion you build UI's inside of maya will be Maya centric (mel), and you use the Maya exposed methods to do it. And thus you are bound by Maya's exposed method to communicate with Qt, example QTab widget via the mel command `dockControl`. Advantages of ;- to coin a better phrase "MelQt" No 3rd party library to install Native interaction with Maya therefore in theory guaranteed to work Disadvantages :- Bound by MelQt implementation of Qt Difficult to make larger applications with this exposed framework Not object oriented Not learning the Qt API only MelQt Installing PyQt lets you communicate with Maya's QApplication via PyQt's API. PyQt is almost a 1 to 1 mapping of the C++ API via sip. If your unsure if you need PyQt then I reckon you don't. Using MelQt via cmds, mel or pymel would most likely be enough. In which case, you are only installing PyQt or even Qt to get the Designer application. Then loading the ui files with what ever it is that Maya provides. Forgot the mel command ... Err loadUI is it? Ran out of steam towards the end, but I hope that helps. -Dave On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:22 PM, rudi <rudiham...@hotmail.com> wrote: > solved...it turned out that it had to be wrote in mel.so -command ,not > command=.And then "polyCube()" as the string > I though that launching the ui using python would require to wite > command =...but it doesn´t,I don´t know why. > > > > On 10 ago, 00:15, rudi <rudiham...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just started to learning Qt.I tryed to do the same as shown in the > > GDC maya 2011 demo,(http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/stevenr/ > > maya_2011_highlight_qt_user_interface),but with pymel instead of mel. > > I don´t understand how the create dynamic property works.For > > example,what should I write in the property name, if I just want to > > create a polyCube when the button is pushed? > > I though that I just had to create a string dynamic property,and > > then,in the property name write polyCube()...but nothing happens when > > I push the button. > > > > R, > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > -- David Moulder http://www.google.com/profiles/squish3d -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
