thanks for your feedback michal. i did a bit of research... have you tried the way jo did the parenting of the window in PyQtForSoftimage plugin with this function?
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-and-session-manager/XReparentWindow.html i also found these discussions... http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2000-07/thread00492-0.html http://www.qtforum.org/article/27551/native-x-application-qt-widget-integration.html s On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Michal Doniec <doni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, we use it extensively at The Mill. It runs on timer (every 20 ms QT > even loop is updated). Basically timer event updates QT even loop using > processEvents. "Global" QT application is created first and used for > everything else. > > There is a couple of things to keep in mind. If you want to show non modal > dialogs (using show) you need to prevent them from being garbage collected, > one of the methods (very hacky one) is to stuff window handles into one of > PyQt4 modules, like QtGui, (Like this: QtGui.your_dialog = a_dialog.show() > ). > > > QT windows will not be attached to XSI window by default. The best way > would be to attach them using XSI Xwindow handle as a parent, but I didn't > manage to figure out how to do it yet. It was easy on windows. The > workaround is to make QT windows to always stay on top, which works really > well unless you minimize XSI while some QT windows are open. They will not > minimize with XSI. > Other than that it runs pretty stable, we have quite UI intensive system > here running on it and I didn't notice many crashes. > Hope that helps. > > > On 18 January 2013 08:36, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Xavier Lapointe < >> xl.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> "there is also Aloys' method with a timer event, which for some reason >>> no one seems to be trying." >>> >>> The other issue is also to compile PyQt for Softimage using python 2.5 ( >>> until they update on linux (: ), but meh. Meant to give it a shot, and >>> finally ended up working in the same shop as Aloys so it became useless q: >>> >>> >> >> Given the big popularity of Qt I wonder why no one at Autodesk has given >> this any priority? It's been talked about on this list for quite some time >> now. It seems that they should have the resources to do it, and not to >> mention the source code for Softimage so that they know HOW to implement it. >> >> Or did they fire all those that could do that?? >> >> And while I'm complaining, how many times haven't I requested that Python >> should be upgraded so that it matches the Maya version? And Softimage is >> STILL missing essential python libs. I can sort the python libs out myself, >> but it's pretty lame from Autodesk to not supply those. From a commercial >> package as Softimage I actually demand more than what I do from a >> OpenSource package. I thought the whole point of buying something was so >> that you didn't have to build it yourself (don't get me started on Maya, >> that's even worse...). >> >> Softimage is a great program, but has some really nasty flaws which it >> seems to never getting fixed. Or for some reason being stubbornly ignored. >> >> regards >> Stefan "Grumpy Morning" Andersson >> >> >> >> -- >> *Stefan Andersson | Digital Janitor* >> blog <http://sanders3d.wordpress.com> | showreel<http://vimeo.com/sanders3d>| >> twitter <http://twitter.com/sanders3d> | >> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanders3d>| cell: >> +46-73-6268850 | skype:sanders3d >> >> >> > > > -- > ---------- > Michal > http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mdoniec >
