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AM Tools 1.04

I just released a minor update to AM Tools that I thought was worth mentioning here. The only change is some refactoring in plug-in verification to ensure everything will work fine with versions of Maya older than 2010 on Windows. Previously, I was using the allNodeTypes command to verify the existence of plug-ins containing nodes. While this command generally only needs to be called twice to make it work in old versions of Maya on OSX (and I believe Linux too), Windows users could get a Debug.dll error that would just prevent the script from working. Special thanks to Sean Binder and Chad Dombrova for helping me troubleshoot this!

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4 Responses to “AM Tools 1.04”

  1. Juan says:
    May 10, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Hello Adam,
    First off, thank you for providing this excellent set of tools!

    I’m sorry to bug you with this, but I was hoping you could help me with some trouble I encountered during installation –

    I’ve followed the instructions for the installation of the python scripts in the Maya directories. However, upon launching Maya, I’ve come across the following error:

    Failed to execute userSetup.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “E:/JAC/Documents/maya/2012-x64/scripts\userSetup.py”, line 3, in
    import amTools
    File “E:/JAC/Documents/maya/2012-x64/scripts\amTools\__init__.py”, line 71, in
    import menu
    File “E:/JAC/Documents/maya/2012-x64/scripts\amTools\menu.py”, line 139, in
    build()
    File “E:/JAC/Documents/maya/2012-x64/scripts\amTools\menu.py”, line 54, in build
    cmds.menu(kAMToolsMenuName, parent=mainWindow, tearOff=True, label=”AM Tools”)
    RuntimeError: Layout must be a menuBarLayout:

    Do you have any thoughts on how I could go solving this?
    Thank you,
    Juan

  2. Adam says:
    May 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Hi Juan,

    Do you get the same problem if you import after Maya GUI is loaded, or only when importing from a userSetup.py?

  3. Juan says:
    May 18, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    Hi Adam,

    The problem only arises on startup using the userSetup.py.
    I’ve created a mel button shelf button that contains “import amTools”. If I run this after Maya has loaded, things seem to load just fine.

  4. Adam says:
    May 19, 2011 at 8:01 am

    Does it change matters at all if you do it this way in your userSetup?

    import maya.cmds
    maya.cmds.evalDeferred('import amTools')

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