Appending and Linking
* Linking Operator, invokes filebrowser for Append/Link
* Separated the append/link function into three parts:
** BLO_library_append_begin finds main for appending
** BLO_library_append_named_part appends one Object,Group, Material, ...
** BLO_library_append_end actually reads and expands the libraries
NOTE 1:
I also changed the returned properties for the filebrowser operators to the following convention:
"path" - the full path to a file or directory, means what is in directory + filename buttons in filebrowser
"directory" - the content of the directory button in filebrowser
"filename" - the content of the filename button in filebrowser
Usually only path should be required, but in some cases it might be more convenient to retrieve the parts separately.
Ton, Brecht: If you have time to take a look, let me know if anything needs to be fixed.
The support for this is really quite hacky, and I might disable this later if we cannot get some parts to work nicely.
Some notes:
* This is currently stored in the same variable that quaternions are stored in, since they both have 4 components. However, in RNA, I've added 2 properties specially for this.
* There are some shearing issues using certain axes - i.e. (1,1,0) - that will need to be checked on.
* Transform code is really quite temporary for this. Just a quick demo of what can be done...
* layout.itemR now has icon_only option to show only icon
in e.g. enums buttons, for uv editor header.
* Automatic key shortcuts in menus now show the shortcut even if
operator properties don't match. Not sure this will work well
everywhere, but seems to be working ok for now.
* Open recent now show shorter filenames instead of the whole
file path.
* Tweak object Duplicate menu item.
* Added RNA subtype for layers.
* Shift-click works again.
* uiItemR can now also handle armature/bone layers.
* Also makes Move to Layer popup work as expected.
Moved to modern OS standards for opening, saving, copying, pasting, cutting (text), new document, undo and redo.
For Mac users, Cmd is used in addition to the Ctrl-based shortcuts.
These changes are made according to an agreement among developers on IRC.
* Split object_edit.c into multiple files:
object_add.c, object_edit.c, object_hook.c, object_relations.c,
object_select.c, object_transform.c.
* Rename files to have consistent object_ and mball_ prefix:
object_shapekey.c, object_lattice.c, object_vgroup.c, mball_edit.c.
* Added operators:
* vertex group menu and set active
* apply location, rotation, scale, visual transform (location is new)
* make local
* make vertex parent
* move to layer
* convert to curve/mesh (not finished yet)
* Many small fixes for marked issues, but still much code to be cleaned
up here...
This commit some of the many bugs here (it's still not perfect now, but much better than it was):
* Moving in/out of Object, Edit, and Pose Modes for Armatures should now work smoothly. Operators should work nicely in the appropriate modes now (select linked might be a bit tempermental still, since it uses mouse-position).
* Fixed the 'mysterious' memory leaks when changing modes. These were only caused when using the mode switching menu in the 3D-View.
* Went through bullet-proofing some of the operator calling functions against NULL operator id-name strings.
Notifiers
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Various fixes for wrong use of notifiers, and some new notifiers
to make things a bit more clear and consistent, with two notable
changes:
* Geometry changes are now done with NC_GEOM, rather than
NC_OBJECT|ND_GEOM_, so an object does need to be available.
* Space data now use NC_SPACE|ND_SPACE_*, instead of data
notifiers or even NC_WINDOW in some cases. Note that NC_SPACE
should only be used for notifying about changes in space data,
we don't want to go back to allqueue(REDRAW..).
Depsgraph
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The dependency graph now has a different flush call:
DAG_object_flush_update(scene, ob, flag)
is replaced by:
DAG_id_flush_update(id, flag)
It still works basically the same, one difference is that it now
also accepts object data (e.g. Mesh), again to avoid requiring an
Object to be available. Other ID types will simply do nothing at
the moment.
Docs
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I made some guidelines for how/when to do which kinds of updates
and notifiers. I can't specify totally exact how to make these
decisions, but these are basically the guidelines I use. So, new
and updated docs are here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/NotifiersUpdateshttp://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/DataNotifiers
example. bpy.ops.tfm.rotate('INVOKE_REGION_WIN', pivot=(0,1,2), ......)
bpy_array.c - was too strict with types, 0 should be allowed as well as 0.0 in a float array.
* recent files now just write content of G.recent_files, was adding untitled.blend!
* removed unused and now superfluous code reading the .Bfs file (is done in fsmenu now)
This is problematic for a few reasons...
* I'd often save a blendfile only so it would appier in the open recent menu.
* Saving files (when you dont need to) makes access times less useful.
* binary diff's in SVN dont give any useful info. Sometimes I wasnt sure if I actually edited or saves for fast re-opening.
* Testing 2.4x files with animation data in 2.5 can loose info.
* Its not logical and other apps dont work this way.
Also made the recent file list in the file browser display the most recent item first (like the open recent menu).
* Realtime updates now work again
* Fixed problems with clicks to start drawing resulting in a stroke being ended.
* Changed the hotkeys to Ctrl-Alt-Shift-LMB (draw) and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-RMB (erase). Still very temporary stuff, will probably change these a few more times as I experiment with new approaches.
Saving/Loading:
Save - Ctrl S / Cmd S
Save As - Ctrl+Shift S / Cmd+Shift S
Open - Ctrl O / Cmd O
Open Recent - Ctrl+Shift O / Cmd+Shift O
New File - Ctrl N / Cmd N
Text:
Copy- Ctrl+C / Cmd+C
Cut- Ctrl+C / Cmd+C
Paste- Ctrl+V / Cmd+V
Select text- Ctrl+A / Cmd+A
Misc:
Repeat Last Op - Ctrl+R / Cmd+R
Render - Ctrl+Return / Cmd+Return
Render Animation- Shift+Ctrl+Return / Shift+Cmd+Return
User Preferences - Ctrl+Comma / Cmd+Comma
Changed the important search menu to Space key.
Old hotkeys are still preserved, at least for now.
* Popup menus now remember the last clicked item again.
* Modifier and File Format menus are now organized in multiple
columns with categories.
* Hook, explode, uv project modifiers have all their buttons
again with the relevant operators implemented.
* Modifiers that can't be added by the user, or don't work on
curves for example, are not in the menu anymore.
* Fix search menu overlapping buttons when near the bottom of
the screen.
* Fix uv layers search menu not working in some modifiers.
* Cleanup popup menu code a bit, layout engine is used in more
cases now instead of ugly position calculation code.
* Converted vertex paint to use the new stroke system. Now supports the same smooth stroke and stroke spacing as sculpt mode.
* Refactored the paint cursor a bit, just sculpt for now but other modes soon.
* A couple warning fixes
Implementation:
* NC_SCENE or NC_OBJECT cause scene->stats to be cleared.
* NC_INFO is sent to tag info headers for redraw.
* In UI scene.statistics() creates scene->stats if it is
NULLd, and then returns the string.
* Fix header menu spacing bug, and make it consistent for all headers.
* For consistency, always put menus first in the header, then any enums
to switch the type of data displayed.
* Node editor header ported to python layout. Still quite a few
operators missing to make the menus complete.
* RNA wrapped node editor, and added use_nodes property to material
and scene.
* Move sound_init to make sure it gets called everytime user
preferences is reloaded.
* Merged sound_reinit and sound_init. One used user preferences
while the other did not, don't see the point of this, so just
made it always use user preferences now.
* Timeline header audio sync option now controls scene flag
rather than timeline flag. Since it uses the same playback
operator now, there is no distinction anymore.
* Added boolean property sync to animation play operator, to sync
with audio or not. Uses scene setting if property is not set.
* Playback stop button in info header now calls operator, so sounds
stop playing too.
to show properties.
* One problem is that we currently have 3 different kinds of
property layouts, single column, two column, and single column
with text inside button, probably best to reduce this..
* Last operator panel now shows operator name in the header.
* Fix extrude operator to not include transform properties
anymore, since they are already there now due to macro system.
Muscle flexing commit; put the "any key modifier" to work, also exposed
(ugly) in keymap editor. Notes for it works:
- You can use any keyboard key to become modifier now (not mouse buttons)
- But, if this key was assigned to be a regular hotkey, that still gets
triggered, obviously.
- So: only use unused keys for this, like "~" or other special ones?
For test fun: L+K now does animplay.
* Added Context access to RNA_property_as_string. This is needed for doing a Python call to the object mode set operator, which has a dynamic enum property that needs context.
Implementation Note:
* Moved the scene copy/unlink code back into blenkernel, with
the exception of the copy single user stuff which is still in
object_edit.c.
* Uses SCREENDELETE notifier like SCREENBROWSE, seems only clean
way to do this now.
- CMake, use FIND_PACKAGE(Freetype) for unix/linux
- Only link with libdl.so on linux
- use statvfs rather then statfs for netbsd (size of statfs wasnt available)
- add x11 include path with ghost, glu.
