MayaQWidgetDockableMixin allowedArea?

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So I have my class inheriting from MayaQWidgetDockableMixin, however when I try to set the allowedArea I get an error.
I know I’m missing something here.


from PySide import QtGui
from maya.app.general.mayaMixin import MayaQWidgetDockableMixin

class App(MayaQWidgetDockableMixin,QtGui.QDialog):
....
ui = App()
ui.show(dockable=True, floating=False, area='right', allowedArea='right', width=200, height=300, x=300, y=600)

Error:


// Error: 'MayaQDockWidget' object has no attribute 'setAllowedArea'
#     ui.setDockableParameters(dockable=True, floating=False, area='right', allowedArea='right', width=200, height=300, x=300, y=600)
#   File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2015\Python\lib\site-packages\maya\app\general\mayaMixin.py", line 299, in setDockableParameters
#     dockWidget.setAllowedArea(areaValue)
# AttributeError: 'MayaQDockWidget' object has no attribute 'setAllowedArea' //

If I leave out the allowedArea it works fine.

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Hmmm… I see a function on QDockWidget called “setAllowedAreas”. I suspect a mistake in site-packages\maya\app\general\mayaMixin.py. Either they meant to type “setAllowedArea” instead of “setAllowedArea”, or they meant to create a function called “setAllowedArea” in the MayaQDockWidget class.

Since you are subclassing from MayaQWidgetDockableMixin, maybe you could add your own “setAllowedArea” function?

Edit: On second thought, I’m not 100% sure that would work. Trying to read through the code with all the multiple inheritance and stuff. Anyways, let us know what you try, what works and what doesn’t.

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That was it. Line 299 in mayaMixin.py has a typo.
It should be :
dockWidget.setAllowedAreas(areaValue)
instead of:
dockWidget.setAllowedArea(areaValue)

Argghh!
Yea, I’ll have to SubClass the MayaQWidgetDockableMixin and override the method with the fixed typo.

Thanks!