passing arguments to pyqt_thread_helper.queueCommand

[glassman3d]

Hi All

I am running the example file from:

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.5/hom/cookbook/pyqt/part2/

I am hacking it around to suit my needs but I have run into a problem where I need to pass through args when I run:

pyqt_thread_helper.queueCommand(myguicommand)

I want to pass a string through but am finding this a bit mystifying

any body had any experience with this?

many thanks!

[Stalkerx777]

Houdini has it's own event loop, so you don't need to run your QT Gui in separate thread. This is recommended way to run QT in houdini. Doing this way, you don't need to use pyqt_thread_helper.queueCommand

[glassman3d]

hi Stalkerx77 - thanks fro your reply

I was only using example 2 as I couldn't get example 1 up tp execute without hanging

I got it all working within houdini's event loop in the end

the trick was not to call my gui script from the python shell as that has it's own thread, this makes the pyqt_houdini script hang.

In the end I had to register the function as a callback on a button to get it to work correctly - they should put a disclaimer in the docs about that!

cheers!