A question came up in the Maya-Python mailing list that I thought was a really good topic, and should be reposted.
Someone asked how you can create maya UI objects and embed them within your main PyQt application. Specifically he wanted to create a modelPanel and embed it so that he would have a camera view within his own PyQt window.
Here is my example of how to achieve this…
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
import maya.cmds as cmdsimport maya.OpenMayaUI as mui
import sip
global app
class MyDialog(QtGui.QDialog):
def __init__(self, parent, **kwargs): super(MyDialog, self).__init__(parent, **kwargs) self.setObjectName("MyWindow") self.resize(800, 600) self.setWindowTitle("PyQt ModelPanel Test")
self.verticalLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self) # need to set a name so it can be referenced by maya node path self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("mainLayout") # First use SIP to unwrap the layout into a pointer # Then get the full path to the UI in maya as a string layout = mui.MQtUtil.fullName(long(sip.unwrapinstance(self.verticalLayout))) cmds.setParent(layout)
self._cameraName = cmds.camera()[0] nodeName = cmds.modelPanel(cam=self._cameraName) # Find a pointer to the modelPanel that we just created ptr = mui.MQtUtil.findControl(nodeName) # Wrap the pointer into a python QObject self.modelPanel = sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)
# add our QObject reference to the modelPanel to our layout self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.modelPanel)
def show(self): super(MyDialog, self).show() # maya can lag in how it repaints UI. Force it to repaint # when we show the window. self.modelPanel.repaint()
def show(): global app # use a shared instance of QApplication app = QtGui.QApplication.instance()
# get a pointer to the maya main window ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow() # use sip to wrap the pointer into a QObject win = sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject) d = MyDialog(win) d.show()
return d
You need sip and the MQtUtil functions to convert between maya node paths and python Qbjects. Its the same idea as having to use those functions to get a reference to the maya MainWindow, in order to parent your dialog.
