load resources from a folder inside my plugin folder?

[Anonymous]

Good evening,

I'm shortly before releasing my plugin for everyone. I have created a folder named Circlelizer. In that folder, I have other folders called "html", "resources" and "themes". So how do I reference them correctly within my plugin?  I could just place all the resources etc. inside a Maya folder but I don't want to mix those files. It also doesn't look clean for me. 

So my structure looks like this: 

Circlelizer

• html
• resources
• themes
• circlelizer.py

So If I load the plugin while the folder is let's say on my desktop, the working directory is .../maya/bin. If I now would reference my resources inside my script like /resources/image.png it would immediately throw an error message.

Regards,

Life

[cheng_xi_li · Accepted solution]

Hi LifeArtist,

You can use MFileObject to get files from a relative path to the plugin folder. Like below:

	MString testLocation("./testFolder/test.txt");

	MFileObject fileObject;
	fileObject.setRawFullName(testLocation);
	fileObject.setResolveMethod(MFileObject::kRelative);

Yours,

Li

[Anonymous]

Thanks! It worked perfectly for me. I forgot to mention that I am developing using python.

So the correct code for python would be:

path = "themes/default-theme.qss"

fileObject = om.MFileObject()
fileObject.setRawFullName(path)
print(fileObject.resolvedFullName())

In case another one needs it for python 😉

Regards,

Life

[Anonymous]

And of course you need to add:

fileObject.resolveMethod = om.MFileObject.kRelative