adding text to statusline

[Michał Frątczak]

Hello !

Does anybody have example code adding anything to statusline (that one with open,save icons) ?

I will take any suggestions :)

thanks

-michal

PS. maya2015

[Marcus Ottosson]

This should do it. :)

- https://gist.github.com/mottosso/73b6f60de4abcc306ae0

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[f.michal]

W dniu 2016-03-22 o 15:05, Marcus Ottosson pisze:

> This should do it. :)
>
> - https://gist.github.com/mottosso/73b6f60de4abcc306ae0

Thank you Marcus !!

[f.michal]

One more thing, how to add this at the end of statusline ?
I have no experience with Qt and blind fiddiling with parameters does nothing...

W dniu 2016-03-22 o 15:05, Marcus Ottosson pisze:

This should do it. :)

- https://gist.github.com/mottosso/73b6f60de4abcc306ae0

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[Marcus Ottosson]

You are most welcome.

Adding to the end is easier. Instead of "insertAction", use "addAction".

toolbar.addAction(action)

I've updated the Gist with a full example.

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[Michał Frątczak]

Sorry for bringing this up from the past.

We move to maya 2017 and obviously this isn't working anymore.

I updated code to PySide2 (after reading Fredrik's blog) but I get notging (even error messages).

Where in 2015 used to be toolBar object, now is 'flowLayout1' widget...
Is anybody willing to update this example for maya2017?

thanks!

[Marcus Ottosson]

I’ve had a look at this just now, and it looks like they’ve gone from using a QToolBox to simply appending arbitrary widgets to a QLayout.

I don’t blame them, think it should probably have been made that way from the start, but what it means for us is that there is no adapting this script to work. It’ll need a rewrite.

It’s possible the alternative approach could work on 2017 and lower, which would be ideal.

I would start looking into grabbing hold of the layout, and adding your widget (not action) to it.

Here’s a start.

import os

try:
    from PySide import QtGui
    QtWidgets = QtGui
except ImportError:
    from PySide2 import QtWidgets, QtGui

# Use this to locate your widget; it will return the
# widget currently under your cursor.
# parent = QtWidgets.qApp.widgetAt(QtGui.QCursor.pos()).objectName()
# parent.objectName()

# Use this once you know the name of it, in this case "toolBar1"
# We can find it as a child of the main window.
window = {o.objectName(): o for o in QtWidgets.qApp.topLevelWidgets()}["MayaWindow"]
toolbar = window.findChild(QtWidgets.QToolBar, "toolBar1")

if toolbar:
    layout = toolbar.layout()
else:
    layout = window.findChild(QtWidgets.QLayout, "flowLayout1")

assert layout, "Sorry, couldn't find the toolbar."

# Create a random action
# NOTE: Not including an icon
action = QtWidgets.QPushButton("Hello")

# Add to the end..
# NOTE: Not adding to start
layout.addWidget(action)

# If you need to replace/update it, you can remove it like so.
# action.deleteLater()

# Enjoy!

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[Michał Frątczak]

Thanks Marcus!

With your help I was able to update code to working copy.

There's one piece of it making trouble however:

[code]

QtWidgets.qApp.topLevelWidgets()

[/code]

Sometimes qApp is 'None' and I couldn't find a reproducible scenario for this.

If my script is pasted to script editor it works most of the times. When it's imported through userSetup.py - it's always None...

Any clues ?

thanks

[Marcus Ottosson]

Ah, that’s interesting.

qApp is the actively running instance of a QApplication; you could alternatively call QtWidgets.QApplication.instance(). Maya is bound to have just one, but it seems that, based on your description, userSetup.py executes before Qt starts running (sometimes?).

I would pass the entire thing, e.g. by wrapping it into a function, through cmds.evalDeferred or Qt.QtCore.QTimer.singleShot, that should give Qt enough time to catch up.

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[Michał Frątczak]

All is working great now, thanks Marcus