Totally understand. However, the flip side is, people are developing tools that use PyQtForSoftimage and releasing them to the public. Once that started happening it went beyond developers only, so it seemed logical to include some "artist friendly" installation notes.
-Paul ᐧ On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Paul, I am reposting my response from github here... > > PyQtForSoftimage was primarily for developers and it assumes you already > know how to use PyQt and have it installed in a location Softimage can > access. I didn't add this to installation instructions for various > reasons... mostly because it is up to the developer how they want to > install PyQt and which version of Python they wanted to use (at one point > Softimage' python version was lagging behind). One could install PyQt4 into > Softimage's Python directory, It could be installed in the default location > and push onto the sys.path, or it could be installed to a network location > too! > > I will add something in the documentation myself which better outlines the > different options available... > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Paul Griswold < > pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Stephen! >> >> It was indeed something as simple as turning off Softimage's Python. >> >> But, AFAIK, it's not documented in the PyQtForSoftimage installation >> instructions. Maybe I can jump on to GitHub and change that myself. (?) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> ᐧ >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Stephen Blair >> <stephenrbl...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I recently posted some instructions for *Installing PyQtForSoftimage* >>> http://wp.me/powV4-2WN >>> >>> There's also an older version on the codingforxsi blog: >>> >>> http://codingforxsi.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/part-6-installing-pyqt-for-softimage/ >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Tim Crowson < >>> tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Paul, are you using Soft 2014? >>>> *-Tim* C. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 1/10/2014 8:16 AM, Paul Griswold wrote: >>>> >>>> Ha! I believe that may be the answer to the problem. I didn't see >>>> anywhere in the docs anything about switching Python from within Softimage >>>> so I assumed the addon dealt with that stuff itself. >>>> >>>> I'll give it a look when I've got a break. >>>> >>>> -Paul >>>> >>>> ᐧ >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Stephen Blair <stephenrbl...@gmail.com >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Oh, and you did switch Softimage to use the external Python, right? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Blair < >>>>> stephenrbl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> It's not finding PyQt (at least those are the errors you would get if >>>>>> PyQt was not installed). As a quick test, you could set PYTHONPATH to >>>>>> point >>>>>> to the location of PyQt and then start xsi.exe >>>>>> >>>>>> What version of Softimage? >>>>>> >>>>>> You don't mention whether you installed pywin32, but I assume you >>>>>> did install it since you get as far as the ImportError. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Paul Griswold < >>>>>> pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Steve asked for PyQt questions to be posted, so here we go! ;-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have Python 2.76 up and running. I have PyQt 4.10.3 up and >>>>>>> running. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When I load Softimage, though, I get red triangles on >>>>>>> pyqt_example.py and qtevents.py. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The example one throws an error on import sip - ImportError: No >>>>>>> module named sip. >>>>>>> Qtevents.py thorws an error on line 1 - No module named PyQt4.QtCore >>>>>>> >>>>>>> QtSoftimage though, has no errors. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I can go into the PyQt4 examples folder and run all the examples >>>>>>> with no problem. I can run Assistant, Designer and Linguist from PyQt >>>>>>> with >>>>>>> no problems. Sip.exe exists. The sip folder exists in PyQt4. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So I'd love some help getting it set up. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Paul >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ᐧ >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
