I'm fairly new to python, and I am trying to run the code I wrote when I right click the playback range windows in the timeline of maya (where you type your min or max range) . I managed to find ways to run scripts within the attribute editor / timeline / shelf items, but I cant seem to figure out how to interact with Maya's UI... Even typing a new value in there doesn't update the script editor, so I don't really have a lead on where to go. Any help would be fantastic!
you basically want to add a menu item in the timeslider ?. You can get all maya widget using OpenMayaUI.MQtUtil and here is a full repo which modify timeline control https://github.com/robertjoosten/maya-timeline-marker
Everything Maya does when using the UI logs data in the script editor.
Many items in the log are suppressed though as it would spam the log.
To enable it, activate Echo all commands (can be found in script editor under History), then clear the script editor and perform the action you want logged.
You will find that Maya executes a lot of mel script functions, which you can all find in the maya install directory under [MAYA_INSTALL_DIR]/scripts/startup and [MAYA_INSTALL_DIR]/scripts/others
To find the essential function you will have to search a little through the log.
Once you got a mel function you want to look for, I recommend using a find in files search function like the one in Notepad++, to find the corresponding .mel file in which the global proc is defined.
Also note that UI element names that are logged in script editor may have a different name the next time you start maya. So you will have to add functionality to search for the correct UI element name.
The Maya mel scripts are a good resource to find out all sorts of things about how the UI works, including contextual marking menus and the commands of tool windows.
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So, the shop where I work use Excel 4.0 for all its inventory management and orders.
Since the guy before me left without explaining anything, I inherited an old system that works, but is... eh.
The bosses don't want to change to a new Excel nor another program, so I must do what I can with what I have.
Now, I've made a script in python 2.5.4 (this version is needed because the newer versions won't work on the Windows 98 computer they use...) to automate some processes that would be impossible with Excel 4.0 macros, and the script works perfectly for what I need.
But since the bosses want to "only work with Excel", and won't want to go outside of Excel and click the script icon to start it (or, heaven forbid, open cmd and start it manually), I would need to put a button in Excel to start the script.
I've tried to sift through the macros available, but except perhaps "Initiate" (which I don't wholly understand as of now), I can't think of a macro to interact with the script, and haven't found much help with what's available online...
SO, could anyone please help me in making the macro for the button? The only thing the button would need to do is to start the python script, there's no other interactions needed, the rest is done by the script.
Like, the script "foo.py" is in the same folder as "bar.xls", and I only need a button in "bar.xls" to launch "foo.py".
Thanks.
Okay, I found a roundabout way, so I'm gonna share it with y'all.
MacroName
=LAUNCH("cmd",1)
=SEND.KEYS("foo.py~";TRUE)
=SEND.KEYS("exit~")
=RETURN()
It opens a cmd instance, show it for a split second (can't use SEND.KEYS without it being the active app), writes the name of the python script and presses enter, before quitting.
I would like if it didn't need to show the cmd window, but it works for now. Perhaps there'll be another way, but if anyone else wanna do what I did, it does work.
You probably need to get the book out - Excel 4 came with one book called the Function Reference which listed all the commands available.
Commands that we used back in the day were:
EXEC: starts another program
EXECUTE: runs commands in another program called by Initiate
INITIATE: sets a channel to a program
SEND.KEYS: sends keystrokes to a program (we used to send data to a slow server this way...)
Not sure what will be on the web for Excel macro 4, it was retired as vba came out and Excel moved over...
I still use my copy of the book, but it would be worth finding, although the help should list the commands as well. I just used the book as I had macros running...
I'm not at all sure that what I need is possible with the tools that I have, but I thought I'd ask.
I have the following Python script (technically IronPython, but I don't fully understand the difference), that I pulled from a blog and modified for my purposes:
import datetime
from System.IO import StreamWriter
from Spotfire.Dxp.Application.Visuals import TablePlot
tempFolder = "C:\\Spotfire Exports\\"
tempFilename = "Data.txt"
writer = StreamWriter(tempFolder + tempFilename)
vTable.As[TablePlot]().ExportText(writer)
print tempFolder + tempFilename
The script itself works perfectly fine, but the problem is that I need to be able to make this run automatically at a certain time of day, i.e., I need the *.txt file to be updated in the morning before I get to my desk. (The project pulls from a database that isn't accessible through MS Access.)
Although the script runs fine, I have to manually push the button to activate it. I can't seem to find any way to have the script run on file open (so that I can use Windows Task Scheduler) to make it run when the file is opened.
Does anybody know if there's a way to do this?
Bear in mind, I do not have Visual Studio available to me. I already tried Visual Studio Express, and it doesn't seem to be able to access the Spotfire SDK macros.
You can utilize JavaScript to click a button on load and have that button be your python script. Like so:
window.onload = function callButtonClickEvent(){
document.getElementById('YOUR_SPOTFIRE_CONTROL_ID').click();
}
By clicking "edit HTML" in the text box you're using you can see the ID spotfire has assigned your button. The above code will click that button once upon loading.
If you do not want your button to be shown to end users (if applicable) then you can put it inside a hidden div or span:
<span style='display:none'><SpotfireControl id="YOUR_SPOTFIRE_CONTROL_ID" /></span>
Then once this is setup it should run your script when opened as per your windows task scheduler as you desired.
Let me know if you have any questions regarding implementation.
I am very much concerned about my productivity all the time. I have recently come across this beautiful chrome extension Limitless
But this is only measuring what i'm doing within the chrome application. As I work most of the time with pdfs, videos etc, I want to develop similar application for linux(ubuntu) desktop enviroment.
Basically I want the script to run continuously as long as the workstation is on.
It should be able to know what I'm currently looking at (for eg a pdf file or a lecture video in vlc) and get the name of the respective file, start time, end times etc and finally post to db.
It is better if it could know if the system is idle or at sleep.
I don't have slightest clue at bash scripting. so my questions is could this task be accomplished with python.
What I've tried?
I started with a search in google "get current application python", "current window title python" etc etc and really surprised to see absurd results.
Please give me pointers on this.
I think you are asking for vocabulary. So I give you what I know.
You are using Ubuntu so your Window Manager may be Gnome.
The window manager knows which window has the focus.
So maybe you want to find out which window has the focus and you want to map it to the Process that opened the window.
What you need to focus on is is module for Python or a Python Binding for the window manager. This module is likely to also be able to control the windows.
The window manager is started with startx.
You could try to call a command line tool and catch the results
How do get the process list on command line:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53489/how-do-you-list-all-processes-on-the-command-line-in-windows
And how to call a tool with python:
Python subprocess.call and subprocess.Popen stdout
[edit] Repeating the call in Intervals and counting the intervals a process were running gives you a good estimation of running time of a process...
[edit2] As GreenAsJade said, you search a way to find out which windows has the focus.
See How do I detect the currently focused application?
Problem
I'm trying to make a gui in python that displays two directories in two side-by-side panels and their contents (via tree, thumbnails, list, etc), which then allows the user to either:
drag files between both panels
select files to transfer (manually and via script), and transfer after user input
The point is to automate as much of the process as possible, but allow the user to verify each file's final transfer.
Is this possible? Which python gui library would be ideal for this? I'm just looking for a general direction, since I really don't know where to begin looking.
Current workaround
I have a python script that will sort mail into subfolders based on client, and then iterates through each client, simultaneously opening mail\<client> and the client's main file directory in explorer. I drag each file to its appropriate <main>\<client\<subfolder>, close the two windows, press 'enter' in IDLE, and it moves on to the next client. Tedious, but it's a rough implementation.
System info
Windows XP, Python 2.7
Well, you could implement a custom drag-and-drop with any GUI framework, so you might consider using Tkinter, since it's built-in to the standard Python library.
If you need to be able to drag-and-drop between applications, it's a bit more complicated, but supposedly can be achieved with Tkinter, although you might prefer to use wxPython, for which there's an example on the wiki.
For anything file related I would use the Python os module, http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html
I'm working on a project to increase the ability for wine to automatically test software packages. What I'm looking to do now is detect text in the screen capture of the current window. I can then parse all of the text and use autohotkey to give a mouse click on the coordinates of the text I want.
For example, in firefox, I might want to test different things, the first open being opening preferences. I would then need to parse the screenshot of firefox, detect all of the separate locations of text. I can then run these separate images of text into tesseract-ocr and detect which one, says "Edit". I then redo this again for "preferences".
I've tried to find a solution but so far can't find anything. I'd prefer a solution that uses python or has python binds as thats what I've been programing in so far.
A possible starting point is Project SIKULI. It is a tool to automate GUI testing. It is written in Java, nonetheless it includes a scripting environment based on Jython, hence modifying it to support python script may be not too difficult.