import maya.OpenMayaUI import maya.cmds as cmds import sip from PyQt4.QtGui import * from PyQt4.QtCore import * mainWindow = QMainWindow() centralWidget = QListView() mainWindow.setCentralWidget(centralWidget) dockWidget = QDockWidget("DockWidget", mainWindow) dockWidget.setAllowedAreas(Qt.LeftDockWidgetArea | Qt.RightDockWidgetArea) mayaMainWindow = sip.wrapinstance(long(maya.OpenMayaUI.MQtUtil.mainWindow()), QObject) channelBoxDockWidget = None widget = cmds.attrColorSliderGrp("__MyWidget__") dockWidget.setWidget([widget for widget in mayaMainWindow.findChildren(QWidget, "__MyWidget__")][0]) mainWindow.addDockWidget(Qt.DockWidgetArea(Qt.LeftDockWidgetArea), dockWidget) mainWindow.show()