UI Window not reopening when I rerun script

[eunice...@gmail.com]

Hi

I am having some problems here. I made a Maya UI window with QtDesigner and I'm trying to get it to dock at the side. Everytime I run the script, it will appear. However, once I close the UI window and rerun the script, the window will not appear again. I am thinking maybe I need to reinitialise the script but I'm not sure about that. Any advice on how to fix this? Here is my code.

def getMayaWindow():
ptr = apiUI.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
if ptr is not None:
return shiboken.wrapInstance(long(ptr), QtGui.QMainWindow)

class pipeWindow(formClass,baseClass):

def __init__(self, parent=getMayaWindow()):
super(pipeWindow,self).__init__(parent)

self.setupUi(self)
self.setObjectName('pipe_window')

self.project = ""

try:
cmds.deleteUI('dockPane')
except:
pass

self.pane = cmds.paneLayout('dockPane', cn='single')

if 'pipeDock' not in cmds.lsUI(ctl=1) :
cmds.dockControl('pipeDock', con=self.pane, area='right', allowedArea = ['right','left'], label = "ANMD_Pipeline", w=365)
else:
pass
cmds.control( 'pipe_window', e=True, p=self.pane)

Eunice

[Justin Israel]

Hi,

What it looks like is that you are doing this check:

    if 'pipeDock' not in cmds.lsUI(ctl=1) :

​

And you only create the dock if it doesn't exist. But, closing it doesn't necessary mean it is deleted. So you have a hidden dock still in Maya. Now you end up just creating more widgets with no dock that aren't shown. Try adding something like this:

...
        # I needed to add this for subsequent launches to make sure 
        # the initial parent is set
        cmds.setParent(self.parentWidget().objectName())

        self.pane = cmds.paneLayout('dockPane', cn='single')

        

if 'pipeDock' not in cmds.lsUI(ctl=1) :
            cmds.dockControl('pipeDock', con=self.pane, 
                area='right', allowedArea = ['right','left'], 
                label = "ANMD_Pipeline", w=365

)

        # No matter what, make sure we make the dock visible
        cmds.dockControl('pipeDock', e=True, vis=True)

...

​

Does that help?

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