This is now down to pythons garbage collection destroying the ui.
If you make a global variable and assign you ui to that then you'll be fine.
ie:
global myUI
myUI = None
def mySimpleUI():
myUI = MySimpleUI()
myUI.ui.show()
-Dave
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Justin, thank you for the link.
>
> I'm a little curious, how do I properly use the pumpThread? With
> pumpThread, my UI would disappear as soon as it appeared. Am I putting the
> pumpThread at the right place?
>
>
> import pumpThread
> from PyQt4 import uic
>
> class MySimpleUI(object):
> def __init__(self):
> pumpThread.initializePumpThread()
> self.ui = uic.loadUi('D:\\ui\\hello.ui')
>
> def mySimpleUI():
> myUI = MySimpleUI()
> myUI.ui.show()
>
>
> hello.ui is only a widget with a text.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Kurian O.S <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Aha I didnt see that and it wont work previous version and he should use
>> pumbthread in that case ..
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Justin Israel <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> It should be in the sdk directory and not in your path just yet. But if
>>> you cant find it:
>>> http://code.google.com/p/svnformaya/source/browse/trunk/pumpThread.py?r=3
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Justin Israel <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kurian, he is using maya 2010 before they rewrote it in qt. so I don't
>>> believe MQtUtil even exists. The pumpThread utility is what he needs. It
>>> creates a fakey event loop that keeps processing events from qt as they
>>> stack up and also takes care of the global qapp that will be shared. There
>>> is actually no global qapp being used by maya.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2012, at 6:07 AM, "Kurian O.S" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> O otherwise you can try using this
>>>
>>> import sip
>>> import maya.OpenMayaUI as mui
>>> from PyQt4.QtCore import *
>>> from PyQt4.QtQtGui import *
>>>
>>> def getMayaWindow():
>>> ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
>>> return sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QObject)
>>>
>>> class Form(QDialog):
>>> def __init__(self, parent=None):
>>> super(Form, self).__init__(parent)
>>> self.setObjectName('mainUI')
>>> self.mainLayout = QVBoxLayout(self)
>>> self.myButton = QPushButton('myButton')
>>> self.mainLayout.addWidget(self.myButton)
>>>
>>> global app
>>> global form
>>> app = qApp
>>> form = Form(getMayaWindow())
>>> form.show()
>>>
>>> PS : PyQt4.QtCore import * is not really a good idea at all.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> David - does pumpThread come with Maya 2010?
>>>>
>>>> I'll try it out once I get to my studio tomorrow, thanks :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:57 PM, David Moulder <[email protected]
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You are using pumpThread right?
>>>>>
>>>>> If so you shouldn't do sys.exit(app.exec_())
>>>>>
>>>>> just myapp.show()
>>>>>
>>>>> If your not using pumpThread you have to in Maya 2010.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can find pumpThread in the sdk folder. From memory you need to
>>>>> import it and initialize it before any Qt Gui is created.
>>>>>
>>>>> import pumpThread as pt
>>>>> pt.initializePumpThread()
>>>>>
>>>>> -Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Kamil
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The UI class is Ui_AddPlayblast.py. The set title line looks like this
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AddPlayblast.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("AddPlayblast",
>>>>>> "Manual Add Playblast", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried using both "AddPlayblast" and "Manual Add Playblast" to no
>>>>>> avail. Is there anything else I should try?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kurian - the UI script will be run exclusively in Maya. As I
>>>>>> understand, the __name__ = __main__ only works if you run the py file
>>>>>> directly? Initally I'm launching the UI with these commands
>>>>>>
>>>>>> app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
>>>>>> myapp = AddPlayblast()
>>>>>> myapp.show()
>>>>>> sys.exit(app.exec_())
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tested it out in another function, and it is this line that freezes
>>>>>> Maya
>>>>>>
>>>>>> myapp = AddPlayblast()
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> best regard,
>>>>>> Panupat C.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Kurian O.S <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> you can use
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> class MyApp (QApplication):
>>>>>>> ....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>>>>>>> app = MyApp( sys.argv)
>>>>>>> if app.isRunning():
>>>>>>> ... do whatevr u want
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Ricardo Viana
>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Humm. It should. Check you have your naming right on the .ui for
>>>>>>>> window widget.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>>> Ricardo Viana
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Kamil.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for suggestion. But the cmds deleteUI/window modules can't
>>>>>>>> seem to detect the PyQt window's titles :(
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Kamil Hepner
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It's very simple:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> winName = "myWindow"
>>>>>>>>> if pm.windows.window(winName, exists=True):
>>>>>>>>> pm.windows.deleteUI(winName)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2012/1/9 Panupat Chongstitwattana <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In Maya 2010, if I run the script to start a UI that is already
>>>>>>>>>> running, it would crash Maya D: How can I check if the UI is already
>>>>>>>>>> running and close it?
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