On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 10:15 AM Ben Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, we can set our pyqt version to whichever works with maya it does not have to be fixed. In my example my pyqt path is set to c/anaconda/pyqt. We can easily change this to a newer or older version of pyqt by just setting the path on our PYTHONPATH Right on. Just clarifying. The script is meant to be all-inclusive to bootstrap Maya. On Saturday, 31 October 2015, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 10:05 AM Ben Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: Yes essentially we are dynamically switching from PySide to PyQt4. Not sure about building and installing for Maya, we are just telling maya to use the system version of pyqt. We do not need to install and build into Maya's system directories. We are essentially keeping our native maya clean and unaltered. We can still use pyside if we want to But does that work across many versions of Maya, when the Qt ABI changed? It means your system install works for a certain range of Maya's. Then again you probably aren't running Maya 2013 anymore. But what happens if they bump the Qt ABI on the next Maya? I suppose it just means your batch file needs to switch on different locations of PyQt to match the Maya On Saturday, 31 October 2015, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: l On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 9:44 AM Ben Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: Hey Justin, Thanks for the feedback I should have been more concise with the explanation of SHOW and CGROOT. The SHOW variable is hard coded to the batch file In question and Is the name of the top level directory where your tools live. For example if you had a huge structure for maya tools and your batch file was 5 directories into your top level folder the for loop steps back through the directories until it finds the folder name specified with SHOW. CGROOT is mapped throughout the for loop and is the path to the top level directory you specified in SHOW. My CGROOT on my machine would end up being D:/projects/tools/maya_tools for example. If we had 3 projects we could set 3 batch files up and simply change the SHOW variable to use an entirely different set of directories if we wanted to or even restrict a specific maya setup to only step back a couple of directories and not give it full access to our entire tools folder. We use the CGROOT variable on our python path so we can set CGROOT/dirname/subdir/subsubdir etc. The built PYTHONPATH at runtime does the same thing as sys.path.append but we are not specifying it in a script we are giving maya and any other script we want to run access to these directories specified. It allows us to easily add directories later without the hassle of any scripts in our sub folders not having access to them. Oh I see it now. The pdf didn't go into detail on what that for loop really does. I glossed over it. Yes you can install pyside on your machine but I use the anaconda python distributable and when I'm using my IDE (pycharm) I can run any UI using pyqt without having to install pyside and avoid that hassle inside my IDE. I think it's a personal preference :) So does that mean you still build and install PyQt for Maya 2016? Or that you always write your Maya UI code to dynamically switch on whichever is available to import (using that method which remaps PySide to PyQt names, and sticking to SIP api v2) I hope that cleared up a couple of things. I will amend the tut to more clearly explain your feedback Cheers, Ben On Saturday, 31 October 2015, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: Hey Ben, I had a couple questions... You make a couple references to the preference of switching to the system PyQt4 versus the Maya PySide, for reasons of it being easier to develop without a Maya-specific PySide. I wasn't clear on this statement. I don't believe there is anything special about the Maya PySide, other than it being bundled. Could you just as easily install PySide on your system, the same as you would PyQt, and then be able to use PySide inside and outside of Maya? This isn't really a comment on preference or anything. I just didn't get the part about it being easier to develop, or that anything was special about PySide in Maya. Also, as a non-windows user that hasn't seen batch file programming in many many years, I was a bit unclear as to the behavior of the built PYTHONPATH at runtime. I figure this is similar to someone who uses windows and knows nothing about batch file syntax. Is that a hard-coded SHOW variable in the batch file, or does it somehow derive from external sources? Or is the goal that you would have different batch files for different shows, and the only externally derived bit is the CGROOT? I'm trying to map this to my osx/linux env experience, where you would launch Maya from a shell, with a wrapper that would pick up your shell environment. Such as, starting from a shell that is set to SHOW=MyShow, in which case that Maya session would be launched under those settings. Maybe it might help to describe the behavior of the variables and the intended usage of the batch file? As in, how would you end up using it across 3 shows? Justin On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:47 AM Benjam901 <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all, I have been meaning to start a scripting blog on my portfolio for a while now and have recently finished up a tutorial that covers setting up a localised Maya environment using batch files. 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