Maya timeline controls UI

[pipetd]

Can someone please validate something for me? I am seeing this behavior in both Maya 2018 and 2019 on Windows 10 and Mac...

I am trying to build a UI that has the timeline controls from Maya. Something like this:

From the help docs it appears the solution to my issue would be the timePort and rangeControl commands. However, when I execute this simple snippet I get a blank window. Can you please try this in your Maya to see if this is a bug or if I have something wrong with the code? Is there something more to these commands in order to use them in a custom UI?

from maya import cmds

cmds.window( w=500, h=35, title="Timeline Controls UI" )
cl = cmds.columnLayout(adjustableColumn=True)
cmds.rangeControl( 'myRangeSlider', minRange=0, maxRange=60, parent=cl, backgroundColor=(1,0,0))
cmds.timePort( 'myTimePort', parent=cl, backgroundColor=(0,1,0) )
cmds.showWindow()

[pipetd]

The UI this code produces is a blank window with no widgets, but I do not get any error message output:

[pipetd]

As it turns out, the issue is not with either of the two widgets, but with the layout...

Bad:

cmds.window( w=500, h=60, title="Timeline Controls UI" )
cl = cmds.columnLayout(adjustableColumn=True)
cmds.timePort( 'myTimePort', parent=cl, backgroundColor=(0,1,0) )
cmds.rangeControl( 'myRangeSlider', minRange=0, maxRange=60, parent=cl, backgroundColor=(1,0,0))
cmds.showWindow()

Good:

cmds.window( w=500, h=60 )
fl = cmds.frameLayout(labelVisible=False)
cmds.timePort( 'myTimePort', parent=fl, backgroundColor=(0,1,0) )
cmds.rangeControl( 'myRangeSlider', minRange=0, maxRange=60, parent=fl, backgroundColor=(1,0,0))
cmds.showWindow()

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