You will need to dive into Qt for this stuff because the high level native Maya UI functionality won't give you that ability.
I take it you are a bit behind the times :-) Maya has been shipping with PySide since 2013, which is why I stopped maintaining PyQt installers. You can search the history on this group for related topics. People have even created node graphs, and open sourced the examples. https://github.com/drumboy354/MayaNodeInterface On Sun, 17 May 2015 9:28 PM fruity <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Justin, thanks for your answer ! > > Yes, i mean "like a node graph" (i assume that what you call node graph is > similar to the node editor or the hypergraph) > > The maya nodes i speak of are generic, not maya DG nodes, but my owns (not > created with the API though. Otherwise, the nodeEditor would have been > enough =) > > About the tree view, as far as i saw, it doesn't allow free moves, and > this is what i'd like. > > To sum up, the idea would be to have a visual representation of a process, > for example an autorig. Each node representing an action, or a part, or > whatever (like "arm", "head", "wheel", "mirror", etc). The best would be to > have exactly the same thing than nuke, or even than the combination node > Editor / attribute editor : you move your nodes, and if you double click, > you tweak them in the attribute editor. > I'm not talking yet about the connections between nodes, but the concept > itself would be the same than the node editor, or than the Qt example > "elastic nodes" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0n07iuowvY), without > the 'elastic' feature : several elements known as "nodes" that the user can > move into space and that have signals and slots allowing the user to tweak > them. > > Finally, is there any reliable information from Autodesk regarding a full > compatibility of pyQt for maya (i mean : without the need for the user to > install anything) ? If i don't want to use pyQt, it's because i don't want > the user to install anything on his computer. I had a hard time installing > pyQt on my mac for instance, and i finally figured it out using the pkg you > did, justin =) Many thanks for that, btw ! But that's why i'd like to do it > fully maya, unless maya 2016 comes native with pyQt for instance =) > > Thanks for your help > > > > Le dimanche 17 mai 2015 03:41:53 UTC+2, Justin Israel a écrit : > >> When you say a node editor that you " >> could manipulate just like a node in a 2d space", are you meaning like a >> node graph? >> If so, I don't think the Maya native ui provides you with that high level >> capability. You talked about a tree view, but that wouldn't have free 2d >> positioning. What does that treeView not have, that you require for your >> goal? >> Are these Maya nodes you speak of, or "node" in the generic sense of a >> node graph? When you say they would run arbitrary commands when clicked on, >> can you give a workflow example? Maybe that would better help the group to >> offer suggestions. >> >> The Maya native UI is very high level, and only does exactly what each >> limited api descriptions says, with no ability to extend them (as you would >> in Qt) >> >> On Sun, 17 May 2015 9:16 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I'd like to create own node editor using python or mel. The idea would >>> be to have my own nodes (represented by square pictures, for instance, and >>> acting like buttons. so that i can attach any cmd i want to them) that i >>> could manipulate just like a node in a 2d space. >>> >>> I was thinking it may be possible with treeView cmd, by cheating with >>> some callback which could trace mouse movements, but i didn't find anything >>> concrete yet... >>> >>> Does anyone have an idea on how to achieve this or even if it's possible >>> ? 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