That should have read:
"I have been hinted to that the next version of *Maya* fixes a lot of the
mel only callbacks in python commands, not that it helps us now ;("
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've just had a similar journey using the TreeView control whose
> pressCommand command only took a mel procedure name from the python command!
>
> Hamish helped me solve the same problem.
>
> If you take a look in the latest zooTools
> <http://www.macaronikazoo.com/>baseMelUI module, there is the MelTreeView
> class which is wrapping the
> pressCommand of the treeView by generating an on the fly procedure and
> having it call back into the python script.
> The name of the function you want to look at is setPressCommand.
>
> Hopefully its helps out, it certainly has for the tool I am creating right
> now.
>
> I have been hinted to that the next version of my fixes a lot of the mel
> only callbacks in python commands, not that it helps us now ;(
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Jakob Welner <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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
>> _____________
>> Animator | R&D
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>>
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