Hello Chad, (sorry for the resend, I just joined the group, and thought maybe more people are having the same problem...) I'm stuck for quite some time with the problem that you have solved. I was trying to replicate the solution from the Shave & Haircut, with the dummy transform, but I just can't find the hook for moving the transform when the mouse moves. So, following your advice, I used Qt (not using Python, but C++), and it works like a charm as far as generating the mouse move events, but I have a big problem with the actual drawing of the circle, so I was hoping you could help me out a bit.
I'm on a relatively cheap laptop running windows7 with a pretty average graphics card, and the overlay drawing in the maya viewport simply doesn't work. It either doesn't draw anything or paints the background gray. That's why I tried using XorDrawing, but it's messing with the maya grid and it's not consistent - sometimes the circle just disappears. Also, when I move the cursor outside the viewport, part of the circle remains drawn, so that's pretty bad. I would be very grateful for any help, thanks in advance... Cheers, Inos On Jan 12, 11:36 pm, Chad Vernon <chadver...@gmail.com> wrote: > I ended up using a Qt eventFilter on the viewport to capture the event > from Qt and it seems to work fine. > > On Jan 11, 10:27 pm, Chad Vernon <chadver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm trying to replicate a brush tool much like the Artisan brush and the > > Shave and a Haircut brush. I have an MPxContext set up and working fine and > > the actual brush functionality seems to be working fine, I would just like > > to render the opengl red brush ring for visual feedback. I want this to be > > visible and follow themousearound whether themousebutton is pressed or > > not. I scoured the docs and couldn't fine anymousemovecallback. > > MPxContext has doPress, doDrag, doRelase, and doEnterRegion but no plain > >mousemove event orcallback. I noticed on Shave and a Haircut's brush tool > > that when you enter the context, it creates some dummy transform called > > shaveBrushProxy that follows themousearound in the projected viewport > > coordinates so there has to be some sort ofcallbackor hook I can use. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > Thanks, > > Chad -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
