There is this:
http://www.maya-python.com/
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Tim Crowson
<tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com> wrote:
> And no this isn't the only place I'm asking this :-)
>
> I'm getting into the Maya API and I need to port some of our tools over from
> Soft. Google gives me all kinds of interesting links, but I'm curious to
> know from people here who have done dev work for both Soft and Maya (there's
> so many of you, I know right?) if you can recommend resources for learning
> how to create a proper Python-based plugin in Maya. Basically, what's the
> equivalent to the XSI Addon or the self-installing plugin? Stuff like that.
> I think I can figure out the deployment side of things. I'm just wondering
> what's required for a Python plugin to be a python plugin in Maya. Would be
> nice to have Ye Olde SDK Wizarde around....
>
>
> And on another note....
>
> I know this isn't a Maya list.... but since I'm here and you've read this
> far... here's something on the weird chance you might know... I've been
> messing around in Maya 2015 with my userSetup.py to have a custom menu pop
> up in the menu bar at launch. But the userSetup.py file seems get run prior
> to the Maya Window being initialized, so it fails to add my menu because it
> can't get the main window to which it needs to add the menu. The main window
> is simply returned as a NoneType object. The function looks something like
> this...
>
> def buildMenu():
> ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow() # at launch this returns None?
> mayaWindow = shiboken.wrapInstance(long(ptr), QtGui.QWidget)
>
> mainMenu = cmds.menu('MyMenu', p=mayaWindow, l='My Menu')
> cmds.menuItem(p=mainMenu, d=True, dl='Some Divider')
> cmds.menuItem(p=mainMenu, l='Some Tool')
>
> The error comes from wrapInstance(long(ptr)), because ptr is being returned
> as None.
>
> Anyway, on the off-chance...
>
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> Tim Crowson
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