Unable to open files from drive other than drive of current working directory about usdmanager HOT 6 CLOSED

This seems to be something with QtCore.QUrl

url = QtCore.QUrl("E:/test/asset.usd")
print url.path()
# /test/asset.usd

url = QtCore.QUrl("file:E:/test/asset.usd")
print url.path()
#  E:/test/asset.usd

It seems here the value is still good, e.g. C:/Users/Roy/Desktop/usdAsset.usd but then here the path is wrong: C:C:/Users/Roy/Desktop/usdAsset.usd.

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I'm not on a computer where I can test this right now, but I wonder what happens if we change line 2672 from link.setPath(fileStr) to link.setPath(QtCore.QUrl.fromLocalFile(fileStr).toString())? That's a little ugly, but there's a chance that would keep the QUrl extras we want like query strings, while converting E:/... to file:///E:/... so that it is properly found. It will probably take some more work in other places the current QUrl objects are used, but it might be a place to start!

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I've made a slight tweak to how the logger is initialized so that your method of launching will work. Previously, it was always getting set back to logging.WARNING as a default unless you launched from the command line and gave flags for argparse to use. If you need something short-term, just delete the logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING) line in the _set_log_level method in __init__.py.

I've also got a probable fix for the file:// situation (definitely more involved than my initial one-line suggestion), but I won't be able to test it on a Windows machine until next week.

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Release version 0.10.0 addresses the logging note and some other minor maintenance. The Windows file path issue is much more involved and may not be fully resolved yet. I have an alpha version you can test here: https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/usdmanager/tree/issue/17. Feedback and dev contributions are very welcome.

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I'm leaving a small workaround here for this issue in case it helps someone.

you can create a windows batch file for usdmanager that changes the directory to the usd file path before loading the usdmanager python file with something like this:

cd /D %~dp1
py -2.7 usdmanager %~1

I'm under the impression that if a usdmanager.cmd file exists in the same scripts folder, windows will automatically pick that instead of the one without an extension when a usdmanager command is issued. I think Pixar has done something similar to this for its USD/bin folder.

Here's the complete batch file that worked for me:

@echo off
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set USD_MANAGER_ROOT=C:/path/to/usdmanager/root
set USD_INSTALL_ROOT=C:/path/to/usd/root
set PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;%USD_INSTALL_ROOT%\lib\python
set PATH=%PATH%;%USD_INSTALL_ROOT%\bin;%USD_INSTALL_ROOT%\lib;%USD_MANAGER_ROOT%\build\lib

cd /D %~dp1
py -2.7 %USD_MANAGER_ROOT%\scripts\usdmanager %~1
endlocal

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I think the original issue here should be resolved by version 0.11.0 if you want to give it a try. (dev branch)

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