The problem isn't creating an arbitrary UI, I can do that with Win32, MFC, or even C++ QT. The issue is getting that UI to send/receive notifications with the host application to tap into their event hooks.
Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yi Liang Siew Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Softimage Python versus Maya Python PyQt all the UIs!!! (And then despair when your colleagues are like, "how i install pyqt to maya" when you need to deploy it :P ) On 7/9/2014 10:41 AM, Matt Lind wrote: > I was going to suggest the same. I dabbled around not too long ago with MEL, > Python, and C++, and C++ seems the most straightforward as you can talk > directly to the API whereas the other two require you go through layers of > bloat and indirection. The unfortunate part of using C++ is you still have > to rely on scripting for UI elements. > > > Matt > >
