Maya 2017 docking window PySide2

[compteg]

Hi there,

I have a trouble when I want to parent a PySide Gui to the new way of docking window in Maya 2017. 

Why a PySide Gui can't parented to the "workspaceControl" command? However, it works fine with the MEL Gui commands.

Thanks guys!

[jdrese]

Hello

I have been trying to do the same but without success till now. I will let your know if I manage to find a way to manage this. You can use wrapInstance  to cast a workspaceControl Maya UI element into a Qt widget and then start adding your Qt widgets on top. The workspaceControl creates a QtWidget that has a QVBoxLayout on which you can add your widgets. I trying to override the layout by another one but it didn't worked out. I am still digging into this. Maya created custom QtWidget apparently called TWorkspacecontrol which seems to be their widget that is dockable. I have asked on several forums how to add to a QtWidget the same properties of their TWorkspacecontrol but I haven't recieve any answer on this.

You can try this...

from maya import cmds, OpenMayaUI
from shiboken2 import wrapInstance
from PySide2 import QtWidgets

control_element = cmds.workspaceControl('custom_workspace')
control_widget = OpenMayaUI.MQtUtil.findControl('custom_workspace')
control_wrap = wrapInstance(long(control_widget), QtWidgets.QWidget)

# widgets example to add
button_object = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Test Me')
control_wrap.layout().addWidget(button_object)

[jdrese · Accepted solution]

Hi

You can use this...

from maya.app.general.mayaMixin import MayaQWidgetDockableMixin
from PySide2 import QtWidgets

class DialogWidget(MayaQWidgetDockableMixin, QtWidgets.QDialog):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(DialogWidget, self).__init__(parent=parent)
        self.setObjectName('MY_CUSTOM_UI')
        self.setWindowTitle('TEST')
        layout = QtWidgets.QGridLayout()
        button = QtWidgets.QPushButton("HELP")
        layout.addWidget(button)
        self.setLayout(layout)

You can create an instance of this class and call your ClassInstance.show(dockable=True) and this will be dockable as the cmds.workspaceControl() command

[compteg]

Hi,

It took me a long time to solve this .

Thank you so much! It works fine.

this is also helpful:

https://gist.github.com/liorbenhorin/217bfb7e54c6f75b9b1b2b3d73a1a43a

[jordanjs]

I don't understand any of this. I'm trying to dock my AnimSchool Picker next to the channel box, but not docked to the right of the entire Maya application. Could you please explain how I would do that, or provide an specific example I could copy and paste into my Script Editor that works? Thanks in advance...