3dsmax python : hook pyqt widget to max UI

Tools 3ds Max
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When doing createDialog with maxscript, the dialog stay on top of max, but medit, renderer etc goes on top of it. It isn’t ‘allways on top’ window.

How can I match this behavior with maxplus+pyqt ?
actually as soon as I click on max interface, my pyqt ui disappear behind max itself !!


app = QtGui.QApplication.instance()
if not app: app = QtGui.QApplication([])
window = Dialog()

with class Dialog(QtGui.QWidget):

2

dont know if this is also for max:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

class mymainwindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def init(self):
QtGui.QMainWindow.init(self, None, QtCore.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint)

mywindow = mymainwindow()
mywindow.show()

but this will make sure that the window is always on top, even wehn opening another application

some more flags can be found here:
http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/centos0/ics-custom-build/BUILD/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.7.2/examples/widgets/windowflags.py

3

Yes this is what I do for testing but not a solution. If I minimize max or show another window it’s still there

I’m trying parenting my widget to max window but can’t get how to.
maxWinHwd = MaxPlus.Core.GetWindowHandle() return a swig object that put error when parenting to.

4

[QUOTE=KiboOst;23030]Yes this is what I do for testing but not a solution. If I minimize max or show another window it’s still there

I’m trying parenting my widget to max window but can’t get how to.
maxWinHwd = MaxPlus.Core.GetWindowHandle() return a swig object that put error when parenting to.[/QUOTE]

You can convert that to a QObject which you can use as a parent.
sip.wrapinstance(long(maxWinHwd), QtCore.QObject)

5

[QUOTE=blaisebundle;23031]You can convert that to a QObject which you can use as a parent.
sip.wrapinstance(long(maxWinHwd), QtCore.QObject)[/QUOTE]

and how do I get SIP working correctly? I really don’t get it working.

6

God Bless, they fixed it in 2016 SP1:
AttachQWidgetToMax( qwidget, isModelessDlg=True ) does the job