Hello everyone !

Is there a way to show a popup that does not block houdini processes ?

context : My houdinicore.py displays a popup (api: hou.ui.displayMessage() ) when houdini starts. But it freezes houdini startup until user closes the popup, which is bad UX.
I'd rather have houdini continue starting, and the user can close the popup whenever it prefers.

thank you very much !
Valentin Besson

I think you can hijack the system's messaging utilities. For examlple, on Linux in a textport:


I don't see a python equivalent to "unix" so I guess you'll have to use hou.hscript to call it. I know that "unix" command works on windows, but I don't know what its messaging utility is called.