Maya's native UI controls provide a great deal of functionality, and often a customized visual appearance, that is not directly available when constructing UIs with Qt.

For those who would like to include similar functionality in a Qt UI, it is often assumed that the only option is to recreate the controls as a custom Qt widget. Fortunately, this is not the case and in this mini-series I will demonstrate how a native Maya control can be embedded directly in a Qt UI.