added the option to Blender.Library to 'link' data for malefico

source/blender/blenloader/BLO_readfile.h

@@ -218,9 +218,8 @@ BLO_blendhandle_close(
 
 char *BLO_gethome(void);
 int BLO_has_bfile_extension(char *str);
-
 void BLO_library_append(struct SpaceFile *sfile, char *dir, int idcode);
-void BLO_script_library_append(BlendHandle *bh, char *dir, char *name, int idcode);
+void BLO_script_library_append(BlendHandle *bh, char *dir, char *name, int idcode, short flag);
 
 BlendFileData* blo_read_blendafterruntime(int file, int actualsize, BlendReadError *error_r);
 

source/blender/blenloader/intern/readfile.c

@@ -6548,7 +6548,7 @@ static void append_id_part(FileData *fd, Main *mainvar, ID *id, ID **id_r)
  * scripts can load data from .blend files -- see Blender.Library module.*/
 
 /* append to G.scene */
-void BLO_script_library_append(BlendHandle *bh, char *dir, char *name, int idcode)
+void BLO_script_library_append(BlendHandle *bh, char *dir, char *name, int idcode, short flag)
 {
 	ListBase mainlist;
 	Main *mainl;
@@ -6563,7 +6563,7 @@ void BLO_script_library_append(BlendHandle *bh, char *dir, char *name, int idcod
 	/* which one do we need? */
 	mainl = blo_find_main(&mainlist, dir, G.sce);
 
-	append_named_part(fd, mainl, G.scene, name, idcode, 0);
+	append_named_part(fd, mainl, G.scene, name, idcode, flag);
 
 	/* make main consistant */
 	expand_main(fd, mainl);

source/blender/python/api2_2x/Library.c

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 #include "DNA_curve_types.h"
 #include "DNA_object_types.h"
+#include "DNA_space_types.h" /* for line linked */
 #include "BKE_library.h"	/* for all_local */
 #include "BKE_font.h"		/* for text_to_curve */
 #include "BKE_utildefines.h"
@@ -309,27 +310,29 @@ PyObject *M_Library_Load( PyObject * self, PyObject * args )
 	char *base = NULL;
 	int update = 1;
 	int blocktype = 0;
+	int linked = 0;
 
 	if( !bpy_openlib ) {
 		return EXPP_ReturnPyObjError( PyExc_IOError,
 					      "no library file: you need to open one, first." );
 	}
 
-	if( !PyArg_ParseTuple( args, "ss|i", &name, &base, &update ) ) {
+	if( !PyArg_ParseTuple( args, "ss|ii", &name, &base, &update, &linked ) ) {
 		return EXPP_ReturnPyObjError( PyExc_TypeError,
 					      "expected two strings as arguments." );
 	}
 
 	blocktype = ( int ) BLO_idcode_from_name( base );
 
-	if( !blocktype ) {
+	if( !blocktype )
 		return EXPP_ReturnPyObjError( PyExc_NameError,
 					      "no such Blender datablock type" );
-	}
-
-	BLO_script_library_append( bpy_openlib, bpy_openlibname, name,
-				   blocktype );
-
+	
+	if (linked)
+		BLO_script_library_append( bpy_openlib, bpy_openlibname, name, blocktype, FILE_LINK);
+	else
+		BLO_script_library_append( bpy_openlib, bpy_openlibname, name, blocktype, 0);
+	
 	if( update ) {
 		M_Library_Update( self );
 		Py_DECREF( Py_None );	/* incref'ed by above function */

source/blender/python/api2_2x/doc/Library.py

@@ -80,17 +80,19 @@ def Datablocks (group):
   @param group: datablock group, see L{LinkableGroups}.
   """
 
-def Load (datablock, group, update = 1):
+def Load (datablock, group, update = 1, linked = 0):
   """
   Load the given datablock object from the current library file
   @type datablock: string
   @type group: string
   @type update: bool
+  @type linked: bool
   @param datablock: an available object name, as returned by L{Datablocks}.
   @param group: an available group name, as returned by L{LinkableGroups}.
   @param update: defines if Blender should be updated after loading this
       object.  This means linking all objects and remaking all display lists,
       so it is potentially very slow.
+  @param linked: Will keep objects linked to their source blend file, the update option or later updating will unlink the data from the original blend and make it local.
 
   @warn: If you plan to load more than one object in sequence, it is
      B{definitely recommended} to set 'update' to 0 in all calls to this