how to make a ui slip out from maya main window

[张宇]

here is a video shows an pipeline tool in maya, the setting window is slipping out from the top of maya window.

I think it's awesome, I really want to know how to made it.

it's created by pyqt
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[Justin Israel]

Where is the video?

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[张宇]

sorry for my mistake,here is the link http://vimeo.com/27662668

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[Justin Israel]

I'm not sure I understand what part you are referring to in that
video. I see a normal Maya menu drop down, and the selection brings up
a normal floating dialog. What part in the video are you specifically
interested in?

[张宇]

Yes, I want to know about the floating dialog, the ui is animated,how
to do that, can you give me a tiny example?

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[Justin Israel]

Oh wow, I had to look really closely. You mean that small pop up dialog with the text edit field that animates really really fast? You can accomplish that with a QPropertyAnimation. You will need to be using a Qt version 4.6+

https://gist.github.com/3803172

Just animate the showEvent() INTO the current size.

-- justin

[张宇]

Not fast but cool. I want to use it as login window.

And you are so coooool

2012/9/29 Justin Israel <justin...@gmail.com>

[Justin Israel]

Do you mean it animated to slowly? Adjust the setDuration() to a number smaller than 700ms. I set it a bit slow so that you can see what it does easily. Probably 250 will be better. 

[张宇]

New question, I want to make the ui shaking when the password is wrong, but how to update the new animation after the last loop

2012/9/30 Justin Israel <justin...@gmail.com>

[Justin Israel]

That's just a variation of the last example. But you would add extra step values in between the start and end values:

https://gist.github.com/3803172#file_shakey_dialog.py