Maya Python issue

[Anonymous]

i have a class A that creates new renderLayer in maya

when user clicks create button (of class A) , a command is calling a function of the class , say funcA

cmds.button( label="Passes",command=("self.funcA()"))

now, this class A (resides in a file) in a package and is called from another class B

but with the click following error occurs

NameError: file <maya console> line 1: name 'self' is not defined # 

What am i missing

there is another command which works

cmds.button( label=" Close ", command=("cmds.deleteUI(\"" + self.win + "\", window=True)") )

this too has a 'self' being called. But this works

[Anonymous]

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-648707.html

[crydrk]

I don't know if this actually solves the problem, but I usually pass commands a different way.

For example:

import maya.cmds as cmds

class PrintWindow():

    def __init__(self):
        win = cmds.window()
        cmds.columnLayout()
        cmds.button(label = 'Print', command = self.printer)
        cmds.checkBox(label = 'Checkbox', changeCommand = self.printer)
        cmds.showWindow(win)
        
    def printer(self, junk):
        print 'We have reached the class method "printer"'
        print 'This is what gets passed in when called:', junk

PrintWindow()        

Perhaps it could be having a problem finding the method because of calling the function in quotes? Not sure but just a thought. The reason why I add a 'junk' is because when the method is called, a value is passed in. I added the checkbox to show that for things like checkboxes and dropdowns the value is passed but in the case of a button it's always false. I'm not sure if that is also the case when passing a string of the function so just in case I added that tangent of an explanation 🙂