PySide and Maya2012

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#21

hey,
just wanted to ask wether theres been any successful attempt to use pySide in Maya 2012 - Id really like to try it since I am thinking of using it as it ships with Nuke nowadays.

#22

PySide works fine with maya, however I cannot for the life of me find a way to import shiboken. The wrapinstance method is on that module and thats what you need to attach windows to maya.

What am I missing?
Is this included in the binaries for windows or is there an external build?

Thanks

#23

[QUOTE=TheMaxx;16443]PySide works fine with maya,
[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the answer, guess I have to try this at some point.

#24

I tired getting nuke and copying the libs and I couldn’t get it to work still. maybe @TheMaxx would be kind enough as to share what method he used to make the thing work?

#25

i’m just using the example from nathan horne’s site to test imports:

<code>
from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
btn = QtGui.QPushButton(QtGui.file,)
btn.show()
</code>

That works as expected. I had to grab the right version of pyside though, as the recent ones are compiled against qt 4.7.4 and I believe the latest maya will work with is 4.7.3. So i went to http://www.pyside.org/files/ and grabbed the latest 4.7.3 version for py 2.6 and win64, http://www.pyside.org/files/PySide-1.0.6qt473.win32-py2.6.exe. Once installed you can move the folder from site-packages to wherever you wish and do the sites.addsitedir() in your script before importing PySide.

If you need stuff our of qt 4.7.4+ or the most recent PySide stuff, you’d probably need to compile pyside against qt 4.7.3.

hmmm, now that i am typing this up, this probably answers my own question about shiboken :slight_smile: It’s probably in the latest pyside.

Is anyone able to compile this correctly? Any tricks we should know about?

#26

ok so after a morning of tinkering I got pyside 1.1.1 comiled against maya’s qt. I found this at the end of my adventure when there was a compile error:

http://renderloop.blogspot.com/2012/05/building-pyside-for-maya-2012-on.html

Anyhow, I did it the hard way, but following these steps should get you a solid build of PySide. Im not sure if shiboken will be distrubuted, if not you can just get it from the /build/ dir. Look for shiboken.pyd and copy that into your site-packages or wherever youre distributing from.

One thing to note is when you use shiboken for wrapInstance on the maya window, change the object type to QtGui.QWidget instead of QtCore.QObject.

#27

Thanks TheMaxx, I’m gonna give it another shot

#28

I discovered that foundry did not provided PySide with Nuke 6.3v4x64 but this post on CGTalk referred to Nuke 6.3v5 so I guess PySide will be included with versions Nuke 6.3v5 x64upwards…

I am downloading Nuke 7 x64 15 day trial guessing it might include Pyside package that I can use with Maya 2012x64. so my question isit a working solution, since its 400mb download it will take time to finish or if anyone know is it included in the trial pack ?

or can you link me up if someone has build PySide for Maya 2012 on Ubuntu ?

#29

the link in my previous post links to the binaries for maya 2012x64 i believe

#30

for Ubuntu ?