Hey Daz. self.setupUI() <---- should use a small letter i. Sorry.
self.seuoUi() On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Panupat Chongstitwattana <panup...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hey Daz. > > No worry. I'm a newbie myself. Believe me, when I just started, I bombard > this group with tons of questions and everyone was very helpful :) > > So first, the getMayaWindow() function is there to tell PyQt that the UI > we're creating is a child of Maya's UI. Without it, your UI will still > work. But it can, and will, go behind Maya's windows. Making it kinda > annoying to find. Don't worry about the content of it much, just use it the > way it is. > > Next, what you do, is you sub class one of PyQt's UI class. For example > > testUI = QtGui,QMainWindow() > testUI.show() > > Similar idea, instead of typing out the base class yourself, you let uic > do it for you (plus loads the ui in the process) > > baseUI = "path/to/ui/file" > from_class, base_class = uic.loadUiType(baseUI) > > Then you subclass your own class from those 2. > > class myUI( base_class , from_class ): > > def __init__(self, parent=getMayaWindow()): > super(base_class, self).__init__(parent) > self.setupUI() > > And that's where you tell your UI to become child of Maya's window. You > can replaced the getMayaWindow() with None to see what happens. > > Now to display your UI : > > test = myUI() > test.show() > > Next. You have a QPushButton named "btallsettings". We want it to fire off > a command when clicked. So, add this to your __init__ > > self.btallsettings.clicked.connect(self.btallClicked) > > and add a new def within the class > > def btallClicked(self): > # do whatever you want > cmds.sphere() > > You can read more about each class in nokia's website. > http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/index.html I found it a ton easier to > understand than PyQt's riverbank site. > > I hope that helps clarify some basics! :) > > Best regard, > Panupat. > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
