It built fine, and I have access to it. However, trying to get pyblish_qml to recognize it is a different story. The latter link’s result is a PyQt5 build in …\Maya2019\Python\Lib\site-packages
from pyblish_qml import api, show
# Tell QML about dependencies
api.register_python_executable("C:/Python27/python.exe")
api.register_pyqt5("C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2019\Python\Lib\site-packages")
show()
But I’m faced with this problem: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows". This message is a lot like when there is something wrong with your Maya2019\bin\qt.conf file.
To circumvent this I tried install python-qt5 with pip as the full git clone takes too long on my stone age internet connection, so it’s PyQt5.3
Trying to show pyblish_qml gets me a blank grey window but I’m then stuck with a new error: ../pyblish-qml/pyblish_qml/qml/app.qml:9:1: module "QtQuick.Controls" version 1.3 is not installed
You shouldn’t mix Maya’s site-packages with your system c:\python27, they are compiled using different versions of Visual Studio (2008 versus 2015, if I remember correctly) and may cause hard-to-debug errors related to that.
from pyblish_qml import api, show
# Tell QML about dependencies
api.register_python_executable(r"C:\Python27\python.exe")
# api.register_pyqt5(r"C:\python27\lib\site-packages")
show()
QML will find PyQt5 via python27, but if you wanted you could uncomment that second line as well. Bottom line is that Maya doesn’t need PyQt5 for pyblish-qml to work. Only pyblish-qml does. pyblish-qml doesn’t need Maya either, only pyblish-base. Long story, but it helps to think of pyblish-qml as not written in Python, but in another language, like Go or C++. It’s completely independent of Maya and Maya’s Python.
Ps: your second path previously had backslashes in it, but was not a “raw” string, which turn backslash followed by character into a different character, such as \n for newline.
Ha, yes I did see. Sorry. I’m really not as incompetent as I appear But your code handled it well regardless
I understand that. I came upon the idea of building the latest version of PyQt5 for maya from another forum post where the person was also struggling with the pylish_qml part. My PYTHONPATH does not contain that location. I only tried using it in the api.register_pyqt5 method.
Before I did try using pip to get python-qt5 into python27’s site packages. But that is when I got the error (it’s not the latest version if I understand your git readme correctly). Perhaps downloading the latest one via c:\python27\python -m pip install git+git://github.com/pyqt/python-qt5.git will do the trick then.
@marcus I can confirm that pip install python-qt5 did not work for me but pip install git+git://github.com/pyqt/python-qt5.git worked well. That was the problem all along. Thanks for your help.
But your code handled it well regardless 