Seems like it, but without a solution to create the editor and control it in a single run I'm at a loss :)
-Chad On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:21 AM Chad Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Justin >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like this works without a hitch when run >> in Maya, but I'm sad to say that as soon as I put it in a module and called >> it to display some nodes I was checking, it did not work at all. it just >> opened the custom node editor and displayed the last thing I had in my >> normal node editor. >> >> Is it possible to do something like this with open maya? I would assume >> so, I'm seeing no reference to creating maya windows like the node editor >> in the API documentation. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > Not sure. Seems like it wouldn't be necessary to have this as a first > class Maya API concept if you can create one through MEL or Python. > > >> >> -Chad >> >> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Justin Israel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 10:11 AM Chad_Fox <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> I'm trying to write a script to display a node editor, populate it with >>>> a given list of nodes and frame them. Unfortunately when running in python, >>>> maya mostly only completes the first step of displaying the scriptedPanel >>>> node editor I'm making. Occasionally when running this code I do get a node >>>> editor with the nodes added, but not framed. >>>> >>>> Even though I have the name of said editor, the commands to add nodes >>>> and frame them do nothing when everything is run in one execution. If I run >>>> them separately and individually it works great! >>>> >>>> I've tried using evalDeferred and utils.executeInMainThreadWithResult() >>>> to create the window first then run the nodeEditor commands, but no luck >>>> there. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts on how to approach this problem? >>>> >>> >>> It seems to work for me if I either put a cmds.refresh() between the >>> showWindow() and the layout/frame of the nodes, or you can use >>> >>> cmds.evalDeferred(functools.partial(setupNodeEditor, editor_name)) >>> >>> and put the layout/frame into a setupNodeEditor(name) function. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Enter code here... >>>> >>>> nodes_to_display = cmds.ls(sl=True) >>>> >>>> >>>> title = 'Custom Node Editor Window' >>>> h = 700 >>>> w = 950 >>>> window_name = cmds.window(title, height=h, width=w) >>>> >>>> form_layout = cmds.formLayout() >>>> custom_node_editor = cmds.scriptedPanel(type="nodeEditorPanel", >>>> label="My Node Editor") >>>> cmds.formLayout(form_layout, e=True, af=[(custom_node_editor, s, 0) for >>>> s in ("top", "bottom", "left", "right")]) >>>> cmds.showWindow(window_name) >>>> >>>> editor_name = custom_node_editor + "NodeEditorEd" >>>> >>>> >>>> print "Clear node editor" >>>> cmds.nodeEditor(editor_name, e=True, rootNode='') >>>> >>>> print "adding nodes" >>>> for node in nodes_to_display: >>>> cmds.nodeEditor(editor_name, e=True, addNode=node) >>>> >>>> print "layout nodes" >>>> cmds.nodeEditor(editor_name, e=True, layout=True) >>>> >>>> print "frame nodes" >>>> cmds.nodeEditor(editor_name, e=True, frameAll=True) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/5af628e9-65f8-44ff-9c38- >>>> e1bbfeb4176d%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/5af628e9-65f8-44ff-9c38-e1bbfeb4176d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >>> 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/CAPGFgA1jKsiwKEZbDE3LYeraqdP7M >>> iFUcc0e465AHgGoSPXqTQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA1jKsiwKEZbDE3LYeraqdP7MiFUcc0e465AHgGoSPXqTQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >> >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> 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/CAJ4oLs5020oddtb-w0dbSPFnbx9hX6qQo- >> mQ2tSccr748JcOAg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAJ4oLs5020oddtb-w0dbSPFnbx9hX6qQo-mQ2tSccr748JcOAg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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/CAPGFgA0SiVjahngAjEg2tQRYNM4yQ > 4kh8qKiR3RCxm60Lrzb5Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA0SiVjahngAjEg2tQRYNM4yQ4kh8qKiR3RCxm60Lrzb5Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. 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