Creating PyQt GUI With Maya

Creating PyQt Window

This is a very basic example how to load a pyqt ui file to maya with pyqt libs. In this solution you really don’t need to convert your pyqt ui file a python file. You can simply load your pyqt ui.

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui, uic
import maya.OpenMayaUI as mui
import sip

baseUI                    = "/user/foo/bar/basic.ui"
baseUIClass, baseUIWidget = uic.loadUiType(baseUI)

class Ui_MainWindow(baseUIWidget, baseUIClass):
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        super(baseUIWidget, self).__init__(parent)
        self.setupUi(self)


def getMayaWindow():
    ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
    return sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)

def mayaMain():
    global maya_basicTest_window
    try:
        maya_basicTest_window.close()
    except:
        pass
    maya_basicTest_window = Ui_MainWindow(getMayaWindow())
    maya_basicTest_window.show()

mayaMain()

Creating a PyQt Window By Code

In this example, we trying to create a gui with only through code rather than using any ui file. Its a very basic example you need to extend based on your need.”

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
import maya.OpenMayaUI as mui
import sip

class Ui_MainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self, parent)

        self.centralwidget = QtGui.QWidget(self)
        self.pushButton = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(80, 50, 75, 23))
        self.pushButton_2 = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(190, 50, 111, 151))
        self.pushButton_3 = QtGui.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
        self.pushButton_3.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(350, 60, 75, 101))
        self.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
        self.menubar = QtGui.QMenuBar(self)
        self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 800, 21))
        self.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
        self.statusbar = QtGui.QStatusBar(self)
        self.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)
        self.retranslateUi()

    def retranslateUi(self):
        self.setWindowTitle("MainWindow")
        self.pushButton.setText("test")
        self.pushButton_2.setText( "test")
        self.pushButton_3.setText("test")

def getMayaWindow():
    ptr = mui.MQtUtil.mainWindow()
    return sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)

def mayaMain():
    global maya_basicTest_window
    try:
        maya_basicTest_window.close()
    except:
        pass
    maya_basicTest_window = Ui_MainWindow(getMayaWindow())
    maya_basicTest_window.show()

mayaMain()