Interface Utilities

Code author: Jeremy Ernst

This module provides utilities for general QT functions and classes to be used as widgets or templates.

Classes

• ARTv2Message
• ARTv2Window
• ErrorWidget
• InfoWidget

Functions

• create_style_sheet
• get_maya_window
• get_style_sheet
• scale_by_resolution

class ErrorWidget(message, parent=None)

Simple class that displays a QMessageBox widget with an error message, and error icon, and a simple “OK” button. Takes in a string message to display.

class InfoWidget(message, details, parent=None)

Simple class that displays a QMessageBox widget with an error message, and error icon, and a simple “OK” button. This class takes in required arguments: A string message, and a string for details. The details string could be empty if not required.

message = ui_utils.InfoWidget("this is an info widget", "these are some details\nas are these")

create_style_sheet(data)

Take in a read stylesheet, and replace any urls with actual file paths, then return the altered data.

get_maya_window()

Return Maya’s main window as a QWidget

get_style_sheet(file_path)

Read the style sheet data, and then replace any urls with proper file paths on the user’s drive.

scale_by_resolution(width, height, widget)

Find the screen resolution and adjust the incoming width and height to accomodate. :param width: desired widget width :param height: desired widget height :param widget: widget used to query which monitor to query :return: modified width and height based on screen resolution