registerUI from Python API

[rendermaniac]

I take it that no one has done this then.

It seems incredibly painful using strings in Maya Python.

[Keilun]

If you look at the documentation for MFnPlugin::registerUI, it has it marked "NO_SCRIPT_SUPPORT". These designate methods in the Maya API that do not have equivalent Python bindings.

I don't believe there is an equivalent at the moment. You could effectively do this yourself by calling your MEL script's creation/destruction procs at the end/start of your initializePlugin/uninitializePlugin routines, unless there's some dependency I'm unaware of.

[lalobr]

Simon, afaik registerUI expects a python function. To call a mel function one could do:

...
pluginFn.registerUI(pythonCreateUI, pythonDeleteUI)
...

def pythonCreateUI():
OpenMaya.MGlobal.executeCommand('melCreateUI')

def pythonDeleteUI():
OpenMaya.MGlobal.executeCommand('melDeleteUI')

I guess is that Autodesk thought whoever writes a python plugin would rather write a python UI?

Cheers,
Lalo.

[rendermaniac]

Thanks. trust me to miss the giant capital letters spelling that out! I have called my function directly which seems to work. I had assumed that registerUI was a "proper" way to do things. Oh well - seems to work.

thanks for the replies

Simon

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