Hi guys,

I'm currently having the issue that my ROP Geometry Output nodes in TOPs are failing whenever I'm using my 123.py startup script with the following error log:

QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QWidget

If I got it right in the TOPs documentation, I believe this is due to the fact that TOPs spawns one or multiple new Houdini instances which will then run the task(s). I think those subprocesses are opened up without the GUI and therefore there was no QApplication initialized before I am calling my custom pipeline window.
Is there any way to query if the current process was opened by TOPs? This way I could still open the window when a user opened Houdini but ignore it when TOPs did it.
I also tried the condition, but that didn't make a difference either.


Thanks for your help in advance!

Michael

Here is a way to get around that issue. I'm only calling the startup scripts which are using Qt with the following condition: