Using Tkinter With Maya Python

[jcooperddtd]

Are there detailed instructions somewhere in the Maya documentation describing how to make Tkinter available from within Maya Python scripts? If I put the directory containing our facility Tkinter.py file in PYTHONPATH I get the following error when I try to do "from Tkinter import *":

# Error: No module named _tkinter
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "", line 1, in ?
# File "/job/SYSTEMS/3PS/python/2.4.1/linux_intel//lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
# import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
# ImportError: No module named _tkinter #

I saw a comment in a previous post about init registered site packages, but I don't know what that means.

Thanks!
- John

[joojaa]

Mayas python lives in a different space so you will need to expand the path slightly here. For maya to find it or register the module for mayas python aswell (maya does not use the installed python but rather its own). This is pretty typical information you get when moduels are defined wrong.

But yes after making my own modules path for maya and manually installing separate modules thre it works quite fine. (the reason i did this was that having possibly different version was a looming threath)

[jcooperddtd]

How do I make Maya see Tkinter? I don't know what the procedure is. Could you tell me in detail? Thanks!

[contrabazista]

john did you ever get the Tkinter working with maya?
I m getting the same error

# import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
# ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. #

thanks

yury

[yaney2]

QUOTE(jcooperDDTD @ 03/27/07, 10:49 AM) [snapback]262997[/snapback]
Are there detailed instructions somewhere in the Maya documentation describing how to make Tkinter available from within Maya Python scripts? If I put the directory containing our facility Tkinter.py file in PYTHONPATH I get the following error when I try to do "from Tkinter import *":

# Error: No module named _tkinter
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "", line 1, in ?
# File "/job/SYSTEMS/3PS/python/2.4.1/linux_intel//lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
# import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
# ImportError: No module named _tkinter #

I saw a comment in a previous post about init registered site packages, but I don't know what that means.

Thanks!
- John

hi, check this out, i think it's useful, good luck
http://groups.google.com/group/python\_insi...-for-maya?hl=en

Yeah.Y