Hey there,
I'm doing my best to use Mayas fileBrowser.mel from within Python but it's
causing a bit of a headache.
I need to make use a linux file browser that allows for picking directories
instead of only files and what I'm trying to do is to catch the fileBrowsers
mel callback and parse on the values to my python class.
Initially I'd thought I'd generate an on-the-fly global mel proc for initial
callback and hardcoding a lambda reference for my class into it and had
hoped to be able to simply evaluate the lambda function reference through a
python call in Mel, but it seems to be a rather optimistic idea?
I may be missing something obvious as it's been a while since I've been
playing around with Python in Maya.
I'm using lambdas all over for my Maya GUI buttons which works fine however
they are all called through a maya.cmds command which I guess is the layer
I'm missing.
Does anyone know how to parse on values from a mel script to a python class
method?
And as a side note, the reason for me to want to use fileBrowser.mel is to
maintain as much backwards compatibility as possible while supporting
Linux/Windows/MacOS (I'm using fileBrowserDialog when possible)
If anyone's got a better idea for a filebrowser that'll work on all Linux
setups, can be used to select directories and doesn't require a bunch of
bundled files to carry along, feel free tell me :)
It's for a LGPL lincensed Anim Library tool (PAIE) and i'd prefer not to
have too many dependencies.
Cheers
JAKOB WELNER
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Animator | R&D
jakob.welner.dk
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