Simple program with complicated problem! InternalVar issue?

[Kate Sendall]

Here is my script. Nice and simple. It's not perfect yet and it's still being 'built, but I'm eager to learn even though as a beginner I suck more than most! :P

import maya.cmds as mc

#checking to see if window already exists and deleting to make room for new window

if mc.window('myWin', exists=True):

    mc.deleteUI('myWin')

#creating new window

    

windowID = mc.window('myWin', rtf=True, t='StairCase', mnb=False, mxb=False, sizeable=True)

mc.columnLayout(w=400, h=600)

imagePath = mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True) +'ícons/stairIcon.jpg'

mc.image(image=imagePath)

mc.button(l= 'Make a Step!', w=400, h=50, c='singleStair(10, 1, 2)')

mc.intSlider(h=300, w=200, step=5)

mc.showWindow('myWin')

The bold red text is the issue - when I delete it and run the script it all works fine and my window pops up with its button and slider. When I run it WITH the red text, it comes up with this error message: 

#Error: UnicodeDecodeError: file <maya console> line 19: ascii

Could someone please tell me what is going on? It's driving me mad. All I want to do is have a nice image header/banner for my window. 

Help me I'm DYING here.

Thanks

Kate S.

[ABHIRAJ KK]

Hi, kate 

check the icons "i" in ur code i think u have used some special characters 

imagePath = mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True) +'icons/stairIcon.jpg'

mc.image(image=imagePath)

[Kate Sendall]

Are you kidding me? That's it! Thank you so much, haha. I was using an american set keyboard and a small screen. The two obviously don't mix well.

Perfect answer.

[noah mizrahi]

I would use python string formatting instead of the  "+" operator.

Try something like:

imagePath="%sicons/staircon.jpg"%mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True)

instead of:

imagePath = mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True) +'icons/stairIcon.jpg'

More info:

http://www.diveintopython.net/native_data_types/formatting_strings.html

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[Robert White]

Or, if you're like me and don't ever remember how the %s formatting works:

imagePath="{pth}icons/staircon.jpg".format(pth=mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True))

or better yet, because it's a file path:

import os
imagePath= os.path.join(mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True), 'icons', 'staircon.jpg')

That last one is often best, because it will handle os specific things like whether directories are split by '/' or by '\'.

On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 3:49:34 PM UTC-5, larry wrote:

I would use python string formatting instead of the  "+" operator.

Try something like:

imagePath="%sicons/staircon.jpg"%mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True)

instead of:

imagePath = mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True) +'icons/stairIcon.jpg'

More info:

http://www.diveintopython.net/native_data_types/formatting_strings.html

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Kate Sendall <kate.alic...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Are you kidding me? That's it! Thank you so much, haha. I was using an american set keyboard and a small screen. The two obviously don't mix well.

Perfect answer.

On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 4:41:43 PM UTC+1, ABHIRAJ KK wrote:

Hi, kate 

check the icons "i" in ur code i think u have used some special characters 

imagePath = mc.internalVar(userPrefDir=True) +'icons/stairIcon.jpg'

mc.image(image=imagePath)

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