Can't use tools or treegrunt on 3dsmax 2010 64 bit.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Installed "BlurOffline_2011-05-04_install_v1.0.10882_64.exe"
2.Installed "python-2.6.6.amd64.msi"
3.Installed "pywin32-216.win-amd64-py2.6.exe"
4.Modified the config.ini so the path wouldn't cause any crash in the scripts 
at loading.
5.When I launch 3ds max 2010 the listner prints 
"
"Code Path: C:/blur/dev/offline/maxscript/treeGrunt/"
"BLUR: BlurArray Library 0.05 loaded."
blurInstall Library v1.0 loaded
[blurNotificationManager] v1.0 loaded
[blurNotificationManager] v1.0 - plugin registered: blurCameraNotification
[blurNotificationManager] v1.0 - plugin registered: blurErrorNotification
[blurNotificationManager] v1.0 - plugin registered: blurPointCacheNotification
blurModel Library v2.5 loaded
"Generating Onion Global Track Data"
"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------"
"Loading Onion Plugins..."
"Registering Onion Plugin: Layer - Toggle Layer Atmospherics"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Pre Load - Disable Scene Atmospherics"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Object - Toggle Fx"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Layer - Toggle Particle Flow Actions"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Layer - Toggle Thinking Particles"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Object - Toggle Light"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Object - Toggle Point Caches"
"Registering Onion Plugin: Object - Toggle Transform Caches"
"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------"
"Onion v.1.63 has been initialized."
"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I have a menu Python in 3dsmax but as I try to click any item like "TreeGrunt" 
or "New Script" n
othing happens. But I can access python struct through maxscript and see blur 
functions and structs so I presumed it is installed correctly I'm just missing 
something and because of that I can't access the interface.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
BlurOffline_2011-05-04_install_v1.0.10882_64
python-2.6.6.amd64
pywin32-216.win-amd64-py2.6
I'm using windows 7 64bit

Please provide any additional information below.
I have shortcuts of treegrunt and BlurIde on my desktop and I can't load 
them... as I try nothing happens.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by SimonBo...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 12:40

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I had a very similar issue. If you already had python installed, rename it / 
back it up or whatever and make sure the python folder doesn't exist, then do a 
fresh install of python, win32 and re running the blur installer and see what 
happens.  For me, there was something in either pyqt or win32 that was left 
over from my previous python install that was interfering.

Original comment by djsolit...@gmail.com on 13 May 2011 at 7:28

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I have a similar problem. Have you been able to fix it? For me, reinstalling 
Python is not really an option ...

Original comment by titeblo...@gmail.com on 30 May 2011 at 2:11

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What version of Windows did you install to?  What version of the offline 
installer?  Same as above?

It looks like the shortcuts problem is that its pointing to the wrong locations 
for the desktop links which we will have fixed for the next release.

When you ran the installer, did you run to a custom location and then copy the 
files?  Or did you run to your actual Max path?

If the you're in 3dsMax and you see the Menu then the plugins got registered 
properly.  If you can go into your maxscript listener and type "python" you 
should see a maxscript struct - that'll mean the blurPython.dlx loaded properly.

If you type:

sys = python.import "sys"
sys.version

It should properly import the sys python module into maxscript and then log 
what version its running through.

Usually when we get an issue like that, its because the actual PyQt/Qt DLLs are 
not linking properly.  Python itself would be working, but the Treegrunt and 
IDE would not because of a problem with PyQt.

If you try:

QtCore = python.import "PyQt4.QtCore"

This should succeeed, but if you then type:

QtCore.Qt.UserRole

Or something like that, thats when it would most likely fail for this scenario. 
 If this is the case, make sure that there are no conflicts with the standard 
3dsMax Qt DLLs and the ones that we provide.  Our installer will backup the 
standard ones that are shipped with max to MAXPATH/bin/qt_bak, but if you 
didn't run the standard installation, then that backup wouldn't have occurred.

Thats usually the case anyway.  For your desktop shortcuts, just path the IDE 
to your PYTHONPATH/lib/site-packages/blurdev/ide/main.py  (I believe that was 
the location, if not it would be 
PYTHONPATH/lib/site-packages/blurdev/runtimes/ide_editor.py)

We were in the process of migrating the runtime scripts to a single location 
and it may not have happened before that release properly.

Hope that helps!

Original comment by eric.hul...@gmail.com on 31 May 2011 at 12:39

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Indeed, it behaves exactly as you expect when I type what you said.
The backup occured, I have the Qt dlls in qt_bak and they're not the same 
version of the ones installed at C:\WINDOWS\system32\blur64, but I guess that's 
normal. How can I see if they're conflicting ?

Original comment by titeblo...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2011 at 2:25

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Well, the problem is more that our Qt DLL's aren't being seen by 3dsMax.

Did you try adding that blur64 location to the system path?  If that doesn't 
work, you can just copy the DLL's out of that folder and into the root Max 
folder, we put them there because we use them for a multitude of applications 
so its better than installing to a singular location.

But that should fix your problem.

Original comment by eric.hul...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2011 at 12:15

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This doesn't seem to work. I copied all the DLLs of C:\Windows\system32\blur64 
into the root MAX folder, but there's not change in the behaviour.

Original comment by titeblo...@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2011 at 8:21

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I had this issue, and realized that one of the python installers was installing 
to a folder called something like "Python26_24" instead of "Python26". So 
double check that. Otherwise you end up with three python folders on your C: 
drive because the blur tools install to "Python26" and python was installing to 
a different folder. After I saw this I did a re-install but told python to 
install in a directory called "Python26" instead that that fixed the issue.

Original comment by QualityE...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2011 at 4:58

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Python is installed in a folder names Python26, the only thing is that it's 
installed on the D: drive not C:
Could that be a problem ? And if it is is there a way around this, because I 
cannot move it.

Original comment by titeblo...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2011 at 8:07

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Did you check your C: drive for any python folders? So did the Blur tools try 
and install it to the C: drive when your python is actually on your D: drive ??

I assume you checked that but thought I would ask just in case.

Original comment by QualityE...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 10:16

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I am having similar QT issues on Win7-64 and Max2011-64. In debugging, when I 
try to simply launch the IDE from the python26-64 shell, it fails on trying to 
import QApplication from PyQt4.QtGui:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26_x64\Lib\site-packages\blurdev\ide\main.py", line 13, in <mod
ule>
    if ( __name__ == '__main__' ):
  File "C:\Python26_x64\lib\site-packages\blurdev\__init__.py", line 201, in <mo
dule>
    init()
  File "C:\Python26_x64\lib\site-packages\blurdev\__init__.py", line 68, in init

    application = core.init()
  File "C:\Python26_x64\lib\site-packages\blurdev\cores\core.py", line 243, in i
nit
    from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

Original comment by frostf...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2011 at 8:25

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Problem was QT conflicts. removing all previous installs and using the supplied 
DLLs fixed everything.

Original comment by frostf...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2011 at 5:14