iconTextButton image problem

[AlexOddbratt]

Have you tried the xpm image format?. It's the format I always use for icons and it hasn't failed me so far. If that doesn't work you could always solve it the ugly way, by querying what OS you are on and have different image formats assigned to the iconSymbolButton depending on if it is mac, windows or linux.

[Geuse]

interesting. how do you query the OS in mel?
thanks

[AlexOddbratt]

There is a MEL command called "about" which has a lot of flags for finding which OS or if it's 64-bit.

[Geuse]

cool thanks!

[Gnimmel]

xpm seems to work on both machines :) thanks. However, now I've hit another problem. These icons need to be generated from maya and when I set the renderer to xpm, it saves a .img file? If I render in maya manually and set it up to xpm, copy the settings from the script editor and use the same in my sciprt, it's not a xpm I get at the end.
Any thoughts on this one?

Thanks,

Richard

[AlexOddbratt]

The xpm rendering as .img issue can be solved by checking the custom extension checkbox in render settings and inputting xpm as the extension or by just renaming the .img image to .xpm. But I wouldn't recommend rendering directly to xpm in Maya since it seems that Maya applies some really crappy compression to xpm images. Try rendering to some other format and convert it to xpm through a compositing program like nuke or through gimp(if I remember correctly photoshop also compresses xpm images pretty badly).

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