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1. Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Topic by Regretful123 · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Hi guys, I'm starting to learn about Python and coding in Maya, and immediately, I have a first project to work along with this lesson. I am trying to replicate the same user interface as Modifier Panel in 3ds studio max. I got most of the stuff to work right, but the issue comes in where the Layout doesn't change…

2. Re: Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Reply by Regretful123 · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   I meant to say that the frameLayout was appearing in the attribute editor. Turns out that I didn't have the "m=True" set in the setParent of each frameLayout chain. Now I need to figure it out what other functions python has to read mouse input or update based on mouse. Need to find more tutorials/reference!

3. Re: Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Reply by Regretful123 · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Yeah I learned a few C# and Javascript, from Unity. I did have some experience mainly with C# language over the time, but knowing that learning another program or language would be a huge task. I already reviewed tons of tutorials in the past two days about how python operation works. It seems like the function or method…

4. Re: Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Reply by monster · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Do you already know another scripting language? This seems like a huge project right off the bat. Seeing the script would help us help you better. The best I can say is to try hiding / disabling instead of deleting and rebuilding UI elements. For the second problem make sure you are setting the parent of the layout to the…

5. Re: Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Reply by ProperSquid · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   You should be able to grab the mouse click events from Qt. I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do, but look up some resources on Maya and PySide/ Qt.

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   Reply by Regretful123 · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   I'm currently using 2012 version, and yeah I don't want to install custom plugins just for one thing. I still have yet found a decent tutorial on how to read and listen the mouse input. Gotta dig deeper then.

7. Re: Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Reply by haiddasalami · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   Are you talking about dockControl when you mean adding it to attribute editor? Dont understand this : The problem still exist about having those options shows up in the Attribute editor. I still need to set those parents in. You can monitor object selections either through script jobs or current selected modes etc.

8. Re: Maya Python scripting Issue

   

   Reply by passerby · Jul 2014 · Home› Technical Talk

   @ ProperSquid pyside is likly a little beyond what he wants to do, its a lot of trouble to setup for all maya versions byt 2015 and 2014