Executing Python code from iOS device through commandPort interface

[Geoffrey Beatty]

I am working with Xcode on an iOS app that provides a gestural drawing interface for Maya. I've gotten to the point where I can drive things in Maya over the network through the commandPort. Here's the video of my progress so far:

<https://vimeo.com/61804771>

Right now, I'm sending several line-broken Python strings embedded in the Objective-C code in order to execute the series of steps I'm doing. What I'd like to do is define functions in a Python script on the Maya side and then only send function calls rather than multi-line commands. However, I can't get that to work. I've got the functions defined properly and can execute them from the Maya command line. But the code coming through the commandPort must be operating on a different thread or namespace.

When I execute "print __name__" in the script editor, I get:

__main__

When I execute "print __name__" from my app, I get:

maya.app.general.CommandPort

I'm kind of stumped on this.

[Justin Israel]

Thats pretty awesome. Nice job!

The idiom for accessing stuff in the global namespace over commandPort has been something like this:

cmd_template = "import __main__\nexec('''%s''', __main__.__dict__, __main__.__dict__)"

cmd = cmd_template % "foo()"

a la: https://github.com/justinfx/MayaSublime/blob/master/MayaSublime.py#L15

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