tentacletk 0.6.3

*Tentacle is a marking menu style ui and toolkit derived from a QStackedWidget and constructed using the uitk backend.*

Tentacle

**personal project. work in progress ..**

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Tentacle is a marking menu style ui and toolkit derived from a QStackedWidget and constructed using the uitk backend.

*Example re-opening the last scene, renaming a material, and selecting geometry by that material.

Design:

Module	Description
tcl	A Custom QStackedWidget that handles UI hierarchy navigation.
overlay	Tracks cursor position and UI hierarchy to generate paint events that overlay the parent widget.
slots	The source directory for the various slot connection modules.
ui	The source directory for dynamic UI files.

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Installation:

To install: install via pip in a command line window using:

python -m pip install tentacletk

To launch the marking menu: For Maya: Add a macro to a hotkey similar to the following:

from tentacle import tcl_maya
tcl_maya.show(key_show='Key_F12')

For 3ds Max: Add a macro to a hotkey similar to the following:

macroScript main_max
category: "_macros.ui"
silentErrors: false
autoUndoEnabled: false
(
	python.Execute "from tentacle import tcl_max"
	python.Execute "tcl_max.show(key_show='Key_F12')"
)