+100
As for Qt apps looking the 'same', I think that's just because certain
conventions work really well for 3D DCC apps (dark gray, lots of
controls on the screen). Honestly, you can make apps look just about any
way you like.
-Tim
On 8/30/2012 5:34 AM, Nick Angus wrote:
+1
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Simon
Anderson
*Sent:* Thursday, 30 August 2012 9:47 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage (addon
v1.14: fixesbutton size and adds command to Soft menu)
+1
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Eric Thivierge <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Also to note, if you're in a mixed pipeline but need the same tool
(asset loader for example) creating the UI in Qt will keep it
consistant across apps. Recently I ported my renamer tool to PyQt and
it looks exactly the same in Maya as it does in Softimage. Small
tweaks to the code obviously for the actual renaming.
PyQt is a pythonic way of creating UIs as well so if you're familiar
with python programming, creating UIs will feel more natural than the
Softimage PPG widgets. As Tim said above, it's infuriatingly hard to
create nicely spaced UIs in Softimage out of the box.
Also if any of the devs are reading, please can we get a built in PyQt
implementation? Pretty please? If I had a choice as to where my
subscription money went, I'd put it all towards that. :D
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Simon Anderson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As Tim wrote, what ever you can imagen you can achieve with Qt, and
usualy extremly rappidly due to the structure of the API. In the past
I have writen entire project tracking systems, and some really fun and
interactive tools.
The only down side to QT is that at the moment if you do develop a
plugin and a user wasnt to run it they have to install a bunch of 3rd
party plugins to get the software to run, but if your willing to do
that then you can have some really great tools.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Tim Crowson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That's not a stupid question. I'll answer as best I can. More
experienced people can correct me and add their own voices. The PPG
options in Softimage are substantially more limited than what Qt
offers. And by 'substantially,' I mean not even in the same category.
I can't possibly cover all the differences, but I can hit some
practical highlights:
/Under-the-hood stuff:/
- A great variety of signals for defining more specific callbacks (not
limited to on_clicked() or on_changed())
- Model view programming, to efficiently store and share data across
your UI! This is big!
- The full power of the Qt library, which contains over 400 classes.
- UI files created in QtDesigner can be loaded into any app that runs
a Python Qt library (as far as I know). So it's good for more than
just Softimage stuff.
/
Look-and-feel stuff:/
- Tab Widgets anywhere you want. You're not limited to placing them at
the top
- Buttons defined to look any way you like
- Intelligent 'Layouts' that resize their contents elegantly
(including Slider layouts which can be collapsed)
- Dockable widgets
- Tree views!
- Menu bars!
- Status bar!
- Toolbars!
- Extremely detailed control over the design via CSS.
I could go on, but perhaps we need some people to post more examples
to really demonstrate how useful it is.
*Tim Crowson
*/Lead CG Artist/
*Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc.
*2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214
*Ph* 615.885.6801 <tel:615.885.6801> | *Fax* 615.889.4768
<tel:615.889.4768> | www.magneticdreams.com
<http://www.magneticdreams.com>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
On 8/29/2012 3:17 PM, piotrek marczak wrote:
Sorry for stupid question, but what's advantage of using qt over PPG?
*From:*Tim Crowson <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:12 PM
*To:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:*Re: Some more questions about PyQt in Softimage (addon
v1.14: fixesbutton size and adds command to Soft menu)
As a matter of fact, Simon, that's the exact setup I use! I
especially like Eclipse's "interactive debugging", for lack of a
better term, where it instantly highlights syntax errors, unused
variables, undefinied variables, etc. Really speeds things up! So
many other things to like about Eclipse too. So far, my workflow
is to create a new addon directory from Soft, then set that as a
PyDev project in Eclipse. I still use Sublime Text 2 every now and
then for one-offs, but Eclipse my main environment.
*Tim Crowson
*/Lead CG Artist/
*Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc.
*2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214
*Ph* 615.885.6801 <tel:615.885.6801> | *Fax* 615.889.4768
<tel:615.889.4768> | www.magneticdreams.com
<http://www.magneticdreams.com>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
On 8/28/2012 6:25 PM, Simon Anderson wrote:
Im not sure what Dev Environment you are using, but if you use
eclipse and install pyDev for it, when you develop for Qt you
get auto completion, wich can be very helpful.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Ana Gomez
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Life with stylesheet becomes easier when you find this:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-reference.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet-examples.html
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