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...
/
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from PyQt4 import uic
from PyQt4.QtGui import QMainWindow
form_class = uic.loadUiType(r"Path\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.
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