Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
Starting to plan one soon man :) will have a tut out sometime in the future. At the moment bogged down with alot, but I have a plan in the pipe for a Qt tut. Qt for the win man!! :D On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Everything I'm working on now is internal pipeline stuff, but considering how blazingly fast I can get stuff up and running thanks to Designer and Eclipse, it will be a breeze to redo something like my Multi-Importer. This has been a major win of the week for me. Thanks! -Tim On 8/24/2012 3:35 PM, Steven Caron wrote: great news! i dont get to use the pyqt interfaces as much as i want to (yet) and i want to hear more from the community on the ups and downs of jo's and my plugin. i also am hoping some people could start sharing their examples? maybe some tutorials? wink wink s On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Steve, I can confirm that yes, this does allow me to refresh as expected. It's actually quite fast. Close the tool in Soft, make some changes in Designer, save, and relaunch the tool in Soft. Changes appear instantly. Nice. -Tim -- -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
Ah! I think I was looking at an older Example file. Looking at this new one, yeah, that seems like a good way to go. Good to know about the Pick Session stuff. Thanks! -Tim On 8/23/2012 6:13 PM, Steven Caron wrote: 1) you can launch softimage code from a pyqt app, so use a normal pickelement, pickobject, or pickposition. then process the return values in your python code. 2) i haven't done enough development using uic files so i haven't the experience with this but could you instead use the pyqt_example.py way of using uic files and let me know if that refreshes? https://github.com/caron/PyQtForSoftimage/blob/master/src/pyqt_example.py s On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Finally found some time to get Steve Caron's PyQtForSoftimage plugin up and running. Working great so far! Big thanks to Steve and any other contributors! Among other things, I'm impressed with how much more responsive PyQt is in pulling data from Shotgun. I have two questions: 1) Are Pick Sessions possible? 2) I'm having an issue where my PyQt UIs don't refresh unless I restart Soft. Instead of compiling a .ui file, or even coding the UI by hand in the constructor, I'm using Pyqt4.uic to interpret the UI at runtime. Like so... / -- from PyQt4 import uic from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow form_class = uic.loadUiType(rPath\to\my\uiFile.ui) class MainWindow( QMainWindow, form_class ): def __init__(self, parent): QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent) self.setupUi(self) def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ): in_reg.Name = someTool in_reg.Author = Tim Crowson in_reg.RegisterCommand( someTool ) def someTool_Execute(): import sip sianchor = Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() sianchor = sip.wrapinstance( long(sianchor), QMainWindow ) ui = MainWindow( sianchor ) ui.show()/ /-- / So far, this works really well. I'm getting my form_class outside any class or function definition, so Softimage runs this at startup. But this means that my form_class does not get updated by simply 'Reloading' the plugin or running 'Update All' from the plugin manager (should it?). I have to actually restart Softimage to see any UI updates. I'm wondering how I can go this route and update my UI without having to restart Soft. -- *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 tel:615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 tel:615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com http://www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com -- Signature
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
so you are confirming the development of the ui using qt designer and .ui/.uic files is more dynamic? refreshes when you expect it to? s On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Ah! I think I was looking at an older Example file. Looking at this new one, yeah, that seems like a good way to go. Good to know about the Pick Session stuff. Thanks! -Tim On 8/23/2012 6:13 PM, Steven Caron wrote: 1) you can launch softimage code from a pyqt app, so use a normal pickelement, pickobject, or pickposition. then process the return values in your python code. 2) i haven't done enough development using uic files so i haven't the experience with this but could you instead use the pyqt_example.py way of using uic files and let me know if that refreshes? https://github.com/caron/PyQtForSoftimage/blob/master/src/pyqt_example.py s On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Finally found some time to get Steve Caron's PyQtForSoftimage plugin up and running. Working great so far! Big thanks to Steve and any other contributors! Among other things, I'm impressed with how much more responsive PyQt is in pulling data from Shotgun. I have two questions: 1) Are Pick Sessions possible? 2) I'm having an issue where my PyQt UIs don't refresh unless I restart Soft. Instead of compiling a .ui file, or even coding the UI by hand in the constructor, I'm using Pyqt4.uic to interpret the UI at runtime. Like so... * -- from PyQt4 import uic from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow form_class = uic.loadUiType(rPath\to\my\uiFile.ui) class MainWindow( QMainWindow, form_class ): def __init__(self, parent): QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent) self.setupUi(self) def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ): in_reg.Name = someTool in_reg.Author = Tim Crowson in_reg.RegisterCommand( someTool ) def someTool_Execute(): import sip sianchor = Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() sianchor = sip.wrapinstance( long(sianchor), QMainWindow ) ui = MainWindow( sianchor ) ui.show()* * -- * So far, this works really well. I'm getting my form_class outside any class or function definition, so Softimage runs this at startup. But this means that my form_class does not get updated by simply 'Reloading' the plugin or running 'Update All' from the plugin manager (should it?). I have to actually restart Softimage to see any UI updates. I'm wondering how I can go this route and update my UI without having to restart Soft. -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com --
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
Inconclusive so far, that comment was based strictly on how the code appeared. Haven't been able to test it yet: I've been sidetracked by a more insidious problem (see other thread) where Softimage insists on using its own Python rather than the system's on some of our boxes... (seems we might have to resort to installing pywin locally on each one, since we can't get pywin to play ball from our network site-packages). -Tim On 8/24/2012 2:09 PM, Steven Caron wrote: so you are confirming the development of the ui using qt designer and .ui/.uic files is more dynamic? refreshes when you expect it to? s On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Ah! I think I was looking at an older Example file. Looking at this new one, yeah, that seems like a good way to go. Good to know about the Pick Session stuff. Thanks! -Tim On 8/23/2012 6:13 PM, Steven Caron wrote: 1) you can launch softimage code from a pyqt app, so use a normal pickelement, pickobject, or pickposition. then process the return values in your python code. 2) i haven't done enough development using uic files so i haven't the experience with this but could you instead use the pyqt_example.py way of using uic files and let me know if that refreshes? https://github.com/caron/PyQtForSoftimage/blob/master/src/pyqt_example.py s On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Finally found some time to get Steve Caron's PyQtForSoftimage plugin up and running. Working great so far! Big thanks to Steve and any other contributors! Among other things, I'm impressed with how much more responsive PyQt is in pulling data from Shotgun. I have two questions: 1) Are Pick Sessions possible? 2) I'm having an issue where my PyQt UIs don't refresh unless I restart Soft. Instead of compiling a .ui file, or even coding the UI by hand in the constructor, I'm using Pyqt4.uic to interpret the UI at runtime. Like so... / -- from PyQt4 import uic from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow form_class = uic.loadUiType(rPath\to\my\uiFile.ui) class MainWindow( QMainWindow, form_class ): def __init__(self, parent): QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent) self.setupUi(self) def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ): in_reg.Name = someTool in_reg.Author = Tim Crowson in_reg.RegisterCommand( someTool ) def someTool_Execute(): import sip sianchor = Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() sianchor = sip.wrapinstance( long(sianchor), QMainWindow ) ui = MainWindow( sianchor ) ui.show()/ /-- / So far, this works really well. I'm getting my form_class outside any class or function definition, so Softimage runs this at startup. But this means that my form_class does not get updated by simply 'Reloading' the plugin or running 'Update All' from the plugin manager (should it?). I have to actually restart Softimage to see any UI updates. I'm wondering how I can go this route and update my UI without having to restart Soft. -- *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 tel:615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 tel:615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com http://www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com -- -- Signature
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
Steve, I can confirm that yes, this does allow me to refresh as expected. It's actually quite fast. Close the tool in Soft, make some changes in Designer, save, and relaunch the tool in Soft. Changes appear instantly. Nice. -Tim On 8/24/2012 2:09 PM, Steven Caron wrote: so you are confirming the development of the ui using qt designer and .ui/.uic files is more dynamic? refreshes when you expect it to? s On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Ah! I think I was looking at an older Example file. Looking at this new one, yeah, that seems like a good way to go. Good to know about the Pick Session stuff. Thanks! -Tim On 8/23/2012 6:13 PM, Steven Caron wrote: 1) you can launch softimage code from a pyqt app, so use a normal pickelement, pickobject, or pickposition. then process the return values in your python code. 2) i haven't done enough development using uic files so i haven't the experience with this but could you instead use the pyqt_example.py way of using uic files and let me know if that refreshes? https://github.com/caron/PyQtForSoftimage/blob/master/src/pyqt_example.py s On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Finally found some time to get Steve Caron's PyQtForSoftimage plugin up and running. Working great so far! Big thanks to Steve and any other contributors! Among other things, I'm impressed with how much more responsive PyQt is in pulling data from Shotgun. I have two questions: 1) Are Pick Sessions possible? 2) I'm having an issue where my PyQt UIs don't refresh unless I restart Soft. Instead of compiling a .ui file, or even coding the UI by hand in the constructor, I'm using Pyqt4.uic to interpret the UI at runtime. Like so... / -- from PyQt4 import uic from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow form_class = uic.loadUiType(rPath\to\my\uiFile.ui) class MainWindow( QMainWindow, form_class ): def __init__(self, parent): QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent) self.setupUi(self) def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ): in_reg.Name = someTool in_reg.Author = Tim Crowson in_reg.RegisterCommand( someTool ) def someTool_Execute(): import sip sianchor = Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() sianchor = sip.wrapinstance( long(sianchor), QMainWindow ) ui = MainWindow( sianchor ) ui.show()/ /-- / So far, this works really well. I'm getting my form_class outside any class or function definition, so Softimage runs this at startup. But this means that my form_class does not get updated by simply 'Reloading' the plugin or running 'Update All' from the plugin manager (should it?). I have to actually restart Softimage to see any UI updates. I'm wondering how I can go this route and update my UI without having to restart Soft. -- *Tim Crowson */Lead CG Artist/ *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 tel:615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 tel:615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com http://www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com -- -- Signature
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
great news! i dont get to use the pyqt interfaces as much as i want to (yet) and i want to hear more from the community on the ups and downs of jo's and my plugin. i also am hoping some people could start sharing their examples? maybe some tutorials? wink wink s On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Steve, I can confirm that yes, this does allow me to refresh as expected. It's actually quite fast. Close the tool in Soft, make some changes in Designer, save, and relaunch the tool in Soft. Changes appear instantly. Nice. -Tim
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
Everything I'm working on now is internal pipeline stuff, but considering how blazingly fast I can get stuff up and running thanks to Designer and Eclipse, it will be a breeze to redo something like my Multi-Importer. This has been a major win of the week for me. Thanks! -Tim On 8/24/2012 3:35 PM, Steven Caron wrote: great news! i dont get to use the pyqt interfaces as much as i want to (yet) and i want to hear more from the community on the ups and downs of jo's and my plugin. i also am hoping some people could start sharing their examples? maybe some tutorials? wink wink s On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Steve, I can confirm that yes, this does allow me to refresh as expected. It's actually quite fast. Close the tool in Soft, make some changes in Designer, save, and relaunch the tool in Soft. Changes appear instantly. Nice. -Tim -- Signature
Re: Two questions about PyQt in Soft (re: Pick Sessions, UI Refresh)
1) you can launch softimage code from a pyqt app, so use a normal pickelement, pickobject, or pickposition. then process the return values in your python code. 2) i haven't done enough development using uic files so i haven't the experience with this but could you instead use the pyqt_example.py way of using uic files and let me know if that refreshes? https://github.com/caron/PyQtForSoftimage/blob/master/src/pyqt_example.py s On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: Finally found some time to get Steve Caron's PyQtForSoftimage plugin up and running. Working great so far! Big thanks to Steve and any other contributors! Among other things, I'm impressed with how much more responsive PyQt is in pulling data from Shotgun. I have two questions: 1) Are Pick Sessions possible? 2) I'm having an issue where my PyQt UIs don't refresh unless I restart Soft. Instead of compiling a .ui file, or even coding the UI by hand in the constructor, I'm using Pyqt4.uic to interpret the UI at runtime. Like so... * -- from PyQt4 import uic from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow form_class = uic.loadUiType(rPath\to\my\uiFile.ui) class MainWindow( QMainWindow, form_class ): def __init__(self, parent): QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent) self.setupUi(self) def XSILoadPlugin( in_reg ): in_reg.Name = someTool in_reg.Author = Tim Crowson in_reg.RegisterCommand( someTool ) def someTool_Execute(): import sip sianchor = Application.getQtSoftimageAnchor() sianchor = sip.wrapinstance( long(sianchor), QMainWindow ) ui = MainWindow( sianchor ) ui.show()* * -- * So far, this works really well. I'm getting my form_class outside any class or function definition, so Softimage runs this at startup. But this means that my form_class does not get updated by simply 'Reloading' the plugin or running 'Update All' from the plugin manager (should it?). I have to actually restart Softimage to see any UI updates. I'm wondering how I can go this route and update my UI without having to restart Soft. -- *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* *Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Building C. Nashville, TN 37214 *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com
