help to setup pyqt for maya 2014 under windows 7

[Gyurma]

Hi,

I'm not very familiar with how to set this up, I read a few things downloaded pyqt, installed but obviously not done it right because it does not work under maya.

when I do a simple 

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

it just says no such module. Probably missing some env var? Not sure as I never tried such setup but would be keen to use pyqt.

I'd really appreciate some help.

Thank You

Gyuri

[Fredrik Averpil]

You'll have to compile PyQt:

http://download.autodesk.com/us/support/files/maya_documentation/pyqtmaya2014.pdf

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[Erkan Özgür Yılmaz]

Is there any particular reason why you are not using PySide instead. It is already shipping with Maya, no need to compile anything.

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[Siew Yi Liang]

I actually just copy the directories from PyQt4 from /lib/site-packages to Maya's own Python directory at:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2013\Python\Lib\site-packages

It seems to be the most reliable result for me so far (using pyqt.pth files sometimes works/doesn't work based off the user PYTHONPATH env var, and I haven't bothered to figure out what exactly goes wrong, so I've taken to doing this instead for users and just running a robocopy batch script over the network for coworkers to copy over the necessary dependencies.)

Hope that helps!

Yours sincerely,
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[Justin Israel]

If you are using a standard install of PyQt within Maya, it has the potential to produce undefined results. It expects to be compiled against the same Qt version as Maya, which is also a modified version by Autodesk.

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[Gyurma]

Thank you,

I'll have a go at that. 

@Erkan Özgür Yılmaz no there is no particular reason only that I'm not a programmer and started with qt, qt designer under linux and familiar with it. that's all.

Thanks,

Gyuri

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[Erkan Özgür Yılmaz]

PyQt4 and PySide are the same essentially and 99% of your code will work both in PyQt4 and PySide without any modification. So, my suggestion is to not to bother installing PyQt4 and go with PySide.

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[Gyurma]

I'm happy not to start to build/compile (as I have very little experience. Ok so I need to look for some docs...

Thanks!

Gyuri

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[Justin Israel]

My favorite source of docs has been keeping the Qt Assistant app running while I code (comes with the Qt install). It is really simple to mentally translate the C++ syntax to PySide. Whenever they list special *List* return types, or instance, you know you will just get back a list. I usually have that up with the "Index" tab selected so I can search for types, which I can never remember :-)

 

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[Gyurma]

ok first problem I bumped into....

I supposed to translate my .ui file to .py via a translator ( http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtCreator_and_PySide ) 

1. pyside-uic mainwindow.ui  -o mainwindow.py

the closest I found to this is:

\Autodesk\Maya2014\Python\Lib\site-packages\pysideuic\pyside-uic.1

but that does not do the job.....

do I need to install pyside? Or (very likely) missing something?

Gyuri

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[Gyurma]

excuse my ignorance, I found the solution in the maya docs.....

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