In response to [#31670], I've reviewed the way that the Paste Keyframes tool for
the DopeSheet and Graph Editors works. Previously, it required you to always
select the F-Curves to paste the keyframes into before allowing you to paste
keyframes. This was because it is quite difficult to infer which ID-block's set
of curves is intended if more than one ID-block has similar curves (e.g. a scene
with two materials, and both have their diffuse color animated). The underlying
assumption and intention of the feature here was that the copy+paste were only
being used by animators to copy animation between similar curves, to transfer
and offset animation across block boundaries.
However, it turns out that many people were by far more familiar with the
simpler copy/paste paradigm from everywhere else (i.e. instead of trying to use
duplicate to copy keyframes around within their respective F-Curves).
Furthermore, in most cases there is only going to be a single character being
animated at a time (vs multiple), which means that most of the time the matching
problem is much simpler.
Hence, the Paste now works as follows:
- If there are selected F-Curves, we limit the paste-matching to only consider
those in the selected F-Curves. This makes it possible to still explicitly
specify where to paste.
- In the more general case (no prior selections), pasting will try to match
anything relevant it finds.
TODO:
- Check on whether the strictest matching level needs adjustments to limit the
number of false positives
- Testing and feedback of the new behaviour needed <--- ANIMATORS! PLEASE TEST
F-Curves
It is possible to get the old behaviour (handles excluded) by bringing up the
Operator Properties (F6) while in the Graph Editor (this doesn't work elsewhere
due to the context requirements of this stuff).
- Make sure functions are named in way BKE_<object>_<action> (same way as RNA callbacks)
- Make functions which are used by mball.c only static and remove their prototypes
from public header file.
Further cleanup is coming.
--debug
--debug-ffmpeg
--debug-python
--debug-events
--debug-wm
This makes debug output easier to read - event debug prints would flood output too much before.
For convenience:
--debug-all turns all debug flags on (works as --debug did before).
also removed some redundant whitespace in debug prints and prefix some prints with __func__ to give some context.
Graph Editor
Under User Preferences -> Editing, there's a new setting "F-Curve Visibility"
which controls the how much F-Curves blend in with the background colour.
Increasing this value makes F-Curves stand out more, at the expense of making it
less obvious which F-Curve is active.
In fact, most "UI special cases" are not well translated, currently. :/ This affects especially the "Properties" panels. This commit should address problems in Graph editors, and 3D View (but probably not yet all of them). Yet it already adds more than 100 new messages (and fixes translated drawing of more).
Also done some style edits…
- spelling - turns out we had tessellation spelt wrong all over.
- use \directive for doxy (not @directive)
- remove BLI_sparsemap.h - was from bmesh merge IIRC but entire file commented and not used.
added some missing functions too - which are not used yep but should be there for api completeness.
* CDDM_set_mloop
* CDDM_set_mpoly
* BLI_mempool_count
Added option display_type to WM_operator_properties_filesel which defines which file
display type (short/list/icons/default) should be used for file browser.
All current operators are using FILE_DEFAULTDISPLAY display type which means display
type will still be calculated based on type of opening file and user preferences
settings. Recover Auto Save operator is now using long display type so file date can
easily be checked now.
Reviewed by Andrea, thanks!
- use more logical names for strings, noticed too many strings called `str` when reviewing name patch.
- pass __func__ macro to uiBeginBlock(), quite a few names were wrong (copy/paste error).
* Get rid of subrow/subcol variable names in the C UI code as well, use sub instead. This is shorter and sufficient.
* Minor layout alignment fixes.
* Greying out in NLA editor was doing nothing for "strip_time" property.
Added "Extend" flag to border select operators for editors:
- UV Editor
- Sequencer
- NLA
- Info Space
- Graph Editor
- File Browser
- Clip Editor
- Action Editor
- Channels and markers regions
Can be used for custom keymaps.
Reviewed behaviour of selection operators, and decided that ultimately, it's
better if select left/right/column didn't change the channel selections at all.
This is because with the highlighting of the active curve nowadays, it's a bit
distracting to suddenly lose track of it after performing these operations, when
you may have been trying to select all of the keyframes on that curve for
further tweaking.
graph editor
No need to deselect all channels when doing the select left/right operator,
since we don't replace the selection afterwards with anything useful. This would
be a problem when the "Only Show Selected" option is enabled (as it is by
default), as this results in the curves being worked on disappearing from view.
F-Curves though will still get deselected as a result of the code to deselect
keyframes. Will need to review whether this is still a good idea (original
intention was so that only curves with keyframes selected would remain
selected).
* Some cleanup, removed references to already deleted *_header.c files.
* Marked SpaceScript as deprecated and removed header. Will keep space for now though, as some script operators are there and Campbell might want to re-use the space later.
Improved error messages presented when trying to paste keyframes.
Previously, "No keyframes to paste" would always be displayed, even if
the copy/paste buffer had some contents but couldn't be pasted if
there weren't any F-Curves selected to paste to.
Previous state:
Right now, there are "memories" of the "old" (less than a month!) translation way:
* A few remaining calls to BLF_gettext() (only UI_translate_do_iface and UI_translate_do_tooltip should be used).
* The _() macro still also calls BLF_gettext()!
New state:
Here are the changes made by the patch:
* Removing the no more needed _() macro.
* Removing most N_() and _() calls, only keeping the few needed ones (i.e. strings that are in no other way findable by xgettext and/or update_msg script).
* Defining in UI_interface.h IFACE_() and TIP_() macros (resp. for UI_translate_do_iface and UI_translate_do_tooltip).
* Replacing all calls to BLF_gettext by relevant IFACE_ or TIP_ one.
* Replacing all calls to UI_translate_do_iface by IFACE_.
* Replacing all calls to UI_translate_do_tooltip by TIP_.
All this somewhat clarifies and simplifies the code.
On the bf-translations scripts side, this only implies adding IFACE_ and TIP_ as detection markers for xgettext.
It also allows to reduce POTFILES.in quite notably (only 20 files remaining in it).
Please also have a look at those pages:
* Coder POV: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Interface/Internationalization
* Translator POV: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/How_to/Translate_Blender
