PyQt4/QProcess issues with Nuke v9...
I am trying to utilize a QProcess to run renders in Nuke at my workplace. The reason why I want to use a QProcess is because I've setup this Task Manager with the help of the community at stackoverflow, which takes a list of commands and sequentially runs it one by one, and also allows me to display an output. You can view the question I posted here:
How to update UI with output from QProcess loop without the UI freezing?
Now I am trying to basically run Nuke renders through this "Task Manager". But every time I do it just gives me an error that the QProcess is destroyed while still running. I mean I tested this with subprocess and that worked totally fine. So i am not sure why the renders are not working through QProcess.
So to do more testing I just wrote a simplified version at home. The first issue I ran into though is that apparently PyQt4 couldn't be found from Nuke's python.exe. Even though I have PyQt4 for my main Python version. However apparently there is a compatibility issue with my installed PyQt4 since my main Python version is 2.7.12, while my Nuke's python version is 2.7.3. So i thought "fine then i'll just directly install PyQt4 inside my Nuke directory". So i grabbed this link and installed this PyQt version into my Nuke directory:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt4/PyQt-4.10.3/PyQt4-4.10.3-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.5-x64.exe
So i run my little test and seems to be doing the same thing as it does in my workplace, where the QProcess just gets destoryed. So i thought maybe adding "waitForFinished()" would maybe do something different, but then it gives me this error that reads:
The procedure entry point ??4QString@@QEAAAEAV0@$$QEAV0@@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library QtCore4.dll
And gives me this error as well:
ImportError: Failed to load C:\Program Files\Nuke9.0v8\nuke-9.0.8.dll
Now at this point I can't really do any more testing at home, and my studio is closed for the holidays. So i have two questions i'd like to ask:
1) What is this error I am seeing about "procedure entry point"? It only happens when i try to call something in a QProcess instance.
2) Why is my QProcess being destroyed before the render is finished?? How come this doesn't happen with subprocess? How can I submit a Nuke render job while acheiving the same results as subprocess?
Here is my test code:
import os
import sys
import subprocess
import PyQt4
from PyQt4 import QtCore
class Task:
def __init__(self, program, args=None):
self._program = program
self._args = args or []
@property
def program(self):
return self._program
@property
def args(self):
return self._args
class SequentialManager(QtCore.QObject):
started = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
finished = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
progressChanged = QtCore.pyqtSignal(int)
dataChanged = QtCore.pyqtSignal(str)
#^ this is how we can send a signal and can declare what type
# of information we want to pass with this signal
def __init__(self, parent=None):
# super(SequentialManager, self).__init__(parent)
# QtCore.QObject.__init__(self,parent)
QtCore.QObject.__init__(self)
self._progress = 0
self._tasks = []
self._process = QtCore.QProcess(self)
self._process.setProcessChannelMode(QtCore.QProcess.MergedChannels)
self._process.finished.connect(self._on_finished)
self._process.readyReadStandardOutput.connect(self._on_readyReadStandardOutput)
def execute(self, tasks):
self._tasks = iter(tasks)
#this 'iter()' method creates an iterator object
self.started.emit()
self._progress = 0
self.progressChanged.emit(self._progress)
self._execute_next()
def _execute_next(self):
try:
task = next(self._tasks)
except StopIteration:
return False
else:
print 'starting %s' % task.args
self._process.start(task.program, task.args)
return True
def _on_finished(self):
self._process_task()
if not self._execute_next():
self.finished.emit()
def _on_readyReadStandardOutput(self):
output = self._process.readAllStandardOutput()
result = output.data().decode()
self.dataChanged.emit(result)
def _process_task(self):
self._progress += 1
self.progressChanged.emit(self._progress)
class outputLog(QtCore.QObject):
def __init__(self, parent=None, parentWindow=None):
QtCore.QObject.__init__(self)
self._manager = SequentialManager(self)
def startProcess(self, tasks):
# self._manager.progressChanged.connect(self._progressbar.setValue)
self._manager.dataChanged.connect(self.on_dataChanged)
self._manager.started.connect(self.on_started)
self._manager.finished.connect(self.on_finished)
self._manager.execute(tasks)
@QtCore.pyqtSlot()
def on_started(self):
print 'process started'
@QtCore.pyqtSlot()
def on_finished(self):
print 'finished'
@QtCore.pyqtSlot(str)
def on_dataChanged(self, message):
if message:
print message
def nukeTestRender():
import nuke
nuke.scriptOpen('D:/PC6/Documents/nukeTestRender/nukeTestRender.nk')
writeNode = None
for node in nuke.allNodes():
if node.Class() == 'Write':
writeNode = node
framesList = [1, 20, 30, 40]
fr = nuke.FrameRanges(framesList)
# nuke.execute(writeNode, fr)
for x in range(20):
print 'random'
def run():
nukePythonEXE = 'C:/Program Files/Nuke9.0v8/python.exe'
thisFile = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath("__file__"))
print thisFile
cmd = '"%s" %s renderCheck' %(nukePythonEXE, __file__)
cmd2 = [__file__, 'renderCheck']
cmdList = [Task(nukePythonEXE, cmd2)]
# subprocess.call(cmd, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, shell=False)
taskManager = outputLog()
taskManager.startProcess(cmdList)
taskManager._manager._process.waitForFinished()
if __name__ == "__main__":
print sys.argv
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
run()
elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
nukeTestRender()
