Re: [Maya-Python] PySide UI for custom Node....what strategy to adopt ?

[Timm Wagener]

Hi,

I have the feeling that it's probably (unadvisably) hard to navigate around AETEMPLATE scripts  for custom attr. Editor layouts. But you can use a custom AETEMPLATE written in Melscript as the entry point for your pyside code and build the ui from there on. There is a tutorial from Dan ostrov that might give some good hints
http://danostrov.com/2012/10/27/building-aetemplates-with-pyqt/

In general aetemplate scripts are about the only occasion where I need to write mel, and I feel like it is amongst the weakest spots in maya scripting. An easy and pythonic system here would result in a great amount of diverse user modified guis with pysides  rich widget library, I guess.

Cheers,
Timm

On Jun 7, 2015 9:25 PM, <grie...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

i have a custom node that is not "easy" to work with because it contains around 60 attributes that in some case i don't need to edit a lot of them, and the naming and ordering could be more intuitive and user friendly.

So i want to make a Pyside UI to handle that node, and i'm not sure what would be the better strategy to go for.
Here are the requirements i need to fulfil:

- Custom grouping and ordering of attributes.
- For each attribute, replace the name by a custom one
- For each attribute a bouton to show/hide, a bouton to lock, some other custom functions.
- UI and node in sync.

QTableWidget doesn't seems to be a good choice, as i need a lot of control and extra functionnality.
What about making a custom widget class that handle every features, then each attributes would be an instance of that class. Then i work my way with nested wigets and layouts ? Seems a lot of work no ?

Do you guys have some suggestions and advices for good practice for this kind of situation ?

Thank you all.


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[sloG]

Hi Timm,

thanks for the advices and the link to Dan Ostrov website,great infos there.
Never touched AETEMPLATE, so i'll have a closer look to them.
Seems that you can avoid mel and use pymel to make the initial setup:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/maya_he3d/D832nqS5lo8

Cheers.

[Timm Wagener]

Kool, will have to check that out! :)

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