installing pyqt for maya 2015

[s...@weacceptyou.com]

Hello friends,

i am useless at installing plugins/scripts/modules or whatever this is. but i need to create a nice sexy gui for my python script and i hear pyqt is the way forward in the gui department.

however i have found contradicting information online about how to install, there are header files i need but also an .exe file to run, though other places have said from maya 2011 onwards pyqt is already built in to it. im getting a head ache.

could someone kindly give me the basic steps to get pyqt working on maya 2015
bear in mind i am not very software savvy

thanks alot,

Sam

[Justin Israel]

Building and installing PyQt,  built against Maya, is a non trivial task. Can you just stick with PySide? It is shipped with Maya and has basically the same API as PyQt, save a few minor differences.

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[Fredrik Averpil]

Here are the official instructions from Autodesk: http://download.autodesk.com/us/support/files/maya_documentation/pyqtmaya2015.pdf

In case you decide on PySide (which is not that much different from PyQt) you should know that PySide2 is under development. PySide2 has Qt5 bindings.

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[Marcus Ottosson]

Here you go! There are versions for each version of Maya, including 2015.

https://github.com/pyqt

But yes, I would agree that going with PySide is better if you're starting from scratch.

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[s...@weacceptyou.com]

thanks a lot guys for the help,

I've not heard of pyside, if it can create a nice interface with buttons and sliders then thats good enough for me. I will check this out and give pyqt a miss.

thanks a lot

Sam

[Marcus Ottosson]

PySide and PyQt is what you use in Python to write GUIs using a framework called "Qt".

The graphical portion of Maya, Nuke and others are mostly written using Qt, but in C++ which is its native interface. Everything you them do is that you can also do with the Python bindings; either PyQt of PySide, which is just two different implementations of the same thing and are mostly identical in how you use them.

Have a look at the main website for all the goodies!

- http://www.qt.io

Sam

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