[MAYA] Screen position of GUI

Coding
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Hey there,
I was wondering if anbody knew a way of getting the screep position of a window in Maya?

Problem:
I’m trying to get Maya to remember the screen position (whether dual screen or not) of a window, so when it relaunches the gui, it’ll be in the same exact place.
I know I can use an optionVar to do the job, but I just need to know the screen position to input into the option var.

Thanks in advanced!
Adrian

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Unless I’m misunderstanding your question (or you want the data for something else), maya already restores your window’s size and position if you have Preferences -> Interface -> Remember size and position checked. It gets added to prefs/windowPrefs.mel, which you can query with cmds.windowPrefs

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If Capper’s suggestion doesn’t work, and you are using >2012, then take a look at this thread about QT positioning:

You should be able to do this from PySide or PyQT.

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Continuing with what btribble is talking about, it’s fairly trivial to get the position using Qt.

import maya.OpenMayaUI as apiUI
from PyQt4 import QtCore
import sip

ptr = apiUI.MQtUtil.findControl('go')
qwidget = sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)
print qwidget.x()
print qwidget.y()

Nathan Horne’s blog has a few useful snippets for interacting with Maya windows using Qt (http://nathanhorne.com/).

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[QUOTE=capper;18405]Continuing with what btribble is talking about, it’s fairly trivial to get the position using Qt.

import maya.OpenMayaUI as apiUI
from PyQt4 import QtCore
import sip

ptr = apiUI.MQtUtil.findControl('go')
qwidget = sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)
print qwidget.x()
print qwidget.y()

Nathan Horne’s blog has a few useful snippets for interacting with Maya windows using Qt (http://nathanhorne.com/).[/QUOTE]

I am ashamed at the inadequacy of my previous post. :wink:

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[QUOTE=capper;18405]Continuing with what btribble is talking about, it’s fairly trivial to get the position using Qt.

import maya.OpenMayaUI as apiUI
from PyQt4 import QtCore
import sip

ptr = apiUI.MQtUtil.findControl('go')
qwidget = sip.wrapinstance(long(ptr), QtCore.QObject)
print qwidget.x()
print qwidget.y()

Nathan Horne’s blog has a few useful snippets for interacting with Maya windows using Qt (http://nathanhorne.com/).[/QUOTE]

Does this only work with pyQT windows?
Because when I run it I get:
Error: ‘QObject’ object has no attribute ‘x’

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Its wrapped to a QtCore.QObject, try QtGui.QWidget.