If you're planning on doing all of the work required to implement a virtual-folder system, you might consider implementing it using fuse<http://fuse.sourceforge.net/>. Fuse let's you create a new file system that is run as application run by the user. For example, people have used fuse to create file systems that mount over FTP and SSH and even git. To the user the new file system looks like any other, so files and folders are accessible in any application, including finder/explorer.
There are python bindings for fuse here: https://github.com/terencehonles/fusepy. The API will probably have a steep learning curve, but on the other hand, you won't have to write any UI code. chad. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAGq9Q7G8H%2BbohSMwKDTX84wdMhQw5NsEEtg7tTbrqJMK%3DLTMYg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
