This significantly simplifies memory management, mostly by avoiding
the need to free the memory manually. It may also improve performance,
since std::string has an inline buffer that can prevent heap
allocations and it stores the size.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117695
When a string shouldn't be used or is invalid, use std::nullopt to
make it clear it's value shouldn't be used.
Without this it's possible to accidentally use an empty string
which will silently fail.
Removal of "confirm" operator callback for confirmation customization,
in favor of new method that shares existing operator dialog code and
allows python configuration.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117564
This was part of #117528, but the description is not suitable as a title
in general and this breaks various existing popups. It is often tool long
and detailed, or just not worded in a way that works as a title.
`UUID` generally stands for "universally unique identifier". The session identifier that
we use is neither universally unique, nor does it follow the standard. Therefor, the term
"session uuid" is confusing and should be replaced.
In #116888 we briefly talked about a better name and ended up with "session uid".
The reason for "uid" instead of "id" is that the latter is a very overloaded term in Blender
already.
This patch changes all uses of "uuid" to "uid" where it's used in the context of a
"session uid". It's not always trivial to see whether a specific mention of "uuid" refers
to an actual uuid or something else. Therefore, I might have missed some renames.
I can't think of an automated way to differentiate the case.
BMesh also uses the term "uuid" sometimes in a the wrong context (e.g. `UUIDFaceStepItem`)
but there it also does not mean "session uid", so it's *not* changed by this patch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117350
The term `PIL` stands for "platform independent library." It exists since the `Initial Revision`
commit from 2002. Nowadays, we generally just use the `BLI` (blenlib) prefix for such code
and the `PIL` prefix feels more confusing then useful. Therefore, this patch renames the
`PIL` to `BLI`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117325
The previous commit introduced a new `RPT_()` macro to translate
strings which are not tooltips or regular interface elements, but
longer reports or statuses.
This commit uses the new macro to translate many strings all over the
UI.
Most of it is a simple replace from `TIP_()` or `IFACE_()` to
`RPT_()`, but there are some additional changes:
- A few translations inside `BKE_report()` are removed altogether
because they are already handled by the translation system.
- Messages inside `UI_but_disable()` are no longer translated
manually, but they are handled by a new regex in the translation
system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
As suggested by Campbell, this changes structure, variable, and
callback names to use "confirm" terminology rather than "warning"
for code related to custom confirmations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116992
Allow our current simple confirmations to be customized and extended
with callbacks, allowing different behaviors, different icons, and
showing more information. Makes no changes to any existing dialogs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104670
Texture usage flag `GPU_TEXTURE_USAGE_MIP_SWIZZLE_VIEW`
was originally implemented and used too conservatively for many
cases in which the underlying API flags were not required.
Renaming to `GPU_TEXTURE_USAGE_FORMAT_VIEW` to reflect
the only essential use case for when a texture view is initialized with
a different texture format to the source texture. Texture views can
still be created without this flag when mip range or base level is
adjusted,
This flag is still required by stencil views and internally by the Metal
backend for certain feature support such as SRGB render toggling.
Patch also includes some small changes to the Metal backend to
adapt to this new compatibility and correctly capture all texture view
use-cases.
Related to #115269
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115300
Don't log wm.operator operator properties when no properties
are stored/loaded, this was noisy, especially for the
INFO_OT_reports_display_update operator when runs from a timer.
This PR implements an initial drawing tool that can already be used for testing.
While this is not fully feature complete (compared to the current grease pencil draw tool) the following is already implemented:
* Pressure support for radius and opacity.
* Material color and vertex color support.
* New active smoothing algorithm based on curve fitting.
* Simplify algorithm as a post-process step.
Some deliberate limitations include:
* The drawing plane is always the front plane. Drawing on surfaces is also not supported.
*
The current approach has not been optimized for performance yet. The goal was to have a straightforward implementation
first and then focus on performance later.
There are numerous parameters in the code that are hard-coded for now. These should be exposed at some point, potentially as user settings.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110093
Search menu (F3) displays character which was pressed to open a context
specific search. This also breaks the old behavior of showing last searched
operator in text field, instead shows the pressed character.
To fix this, first store the `g_search_text/but->poin` string in
temp_buffer (before pressed key char is copied to `g_search_text`).
Later, restore the g_search_text after invoking the search menu.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112938
The basic idea is very simple. Whenever a supported menu is open, one can just
start typing and this opens a search that contains all the (nested) menu entries.
The main downside is that this collides with accelerator keys. Those are the
underlined characters in each menu. For now, we just enable this new searching
behavior in a few selected menus: Node Add Menu, View3D Add Menu and
Modifier Add Menu.
This new functionality can be enabled for a menu by setting
`bl_options = {'SEARCH_ON_KEY_PRESS'}` to true in the menu type.
The status bar shows `Type to search...` when a menu is opened that supports search.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110855
There are a couple of functions that create rna pointers. For example
`RNA_main_pointer_create` and `RNA_pointer_create`. Currently, those
take an output parameter `r_ptr` as last argument. This patch changes
it so that the functions actually return a` PointerRNA` instead of using
the output parameters.
This has a few benefits:
* Output parameters should only be used when there is an actual benefit.
Otherwise, one should default to returning the value.
* It's simpler to use the API in the large majority of cases (note that this
patch reduces the number of lines of code).
* It allows the `PointerRNA` to be const on the call-site, if that is desired.
No performance regression has been measured in production files.
If one of these functions happened to be called in a hot loop where
there is a regression, the solution should be to use an inline function
there which allows the compiler to optimize it even better.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111976
Previously, BKE level preview image code was in `BKE_icons.h` and `icons.hh`.
While these types are related, I always found this quite hard to navigate since
preview image stuff was just in the middle of icon functions. Plus, people
don't expect preview image functions in icon files, the relationship is not
obvious.
Instead, use focused files that make it easy to quickly navigate them
and see what they are dealing with.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111709
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
With the end goal of simplifying ownership and memory management,
and allowing the use of `get_name` in contexts without statically
allocated strings, use `std::string` for the return values of these two
operator type callbacks instead of `const char *` and `char *`.
In the meantime things get uglier in some places. I'd expect `std::string`
to be used more in the future elsewhere in Blender though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110823
Using ClangBuildAnalyzer on the whole Blender build, it was pointing
out that BLI_math.h is the heaviest "header hub" (i.e. non tiny file
that is included a lot).
However, there's very little (actually zero) source files in Blender
that need "all the math" (base, colors, vectors, matrices,
quaternions, intersection, interpolation, statistics, solvers and
time). A common use case is source files needing just vectors, or
just vectors & matrices, or just colors etc. Actually, 181 files
were including the whole math thing without needing it at all.
This change removes BLI_math.h completely, and instead in all the
places that need it, includes BLI_math_vector.h or BLI_math_color.h
and so on.
Change from that:
- BLI_math_color.h was included 1399 times -> now 408 (took 114.0sec
to parse -> now 36.3sec)
- BLI_simd.h 1403 -> 418 (109.7sec -> 34.9sec).
Full rebuild of Blender (Apple M1, Xcode, RelWithDebInfo) is not
affected much (342sec -> 334sec). Most of benefit would be when
someone's changing BLI_simd.h or BLI_math_color.h or similar files,
that now there's 3x fewer files result in a recompile.
Pull Request #110944