Functionality here has become confusing over time,
this removes duplicate, similar functions, preferring to set the mode
instead of toggle, enter, exit.
Mode switching utility function behaved differently regarding undo,
'ED_object_mode_toggle' for example didn't skip the undo push
where 'ED_object_mode_set' did.
Some callers chose these functions based on the intended undo behavior,
even when toggling didn't make sense.
There was also ED_object_mode_generic_enter which was similar to
ED_object_mode_set, instead of the reverse of ED_object_mode_generic_exit.
Simplify object mode switching internals:
- Replace ED_object_mode_generic_enter with ED_object_mode_set.
- Remove ED_object_mode_toggle as nearly all callers needed to check
the current mode so toggling would set the mode argument correctly.
- Use ED_object_mode_set for the object mode switching operator
to simplify logic.
- Add ED_object_mode_set_ex which has an argument to disable undo,
needed when loading undo data needs to set the mode.
- Remove unused ED_object_mode_exit.
* Simplify workspace API a bit
* Comment on behavior of workspace-layout relations where exposed in API
* Remove annoying getters/setters
* Avoid lookups if we can early exit
* A NULL check is removed in `direct_link_workspace()` that I don't see
a need for. Am not 100% sure though, fingers crossed.
In general these changes should improve readability and make things
easier to reason about.
Note this only changes cases where the variable was declared inside
the for loop. To handle it outside as well is a different challenge.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7320
Part of https://developer.blender.org/T74429.
There's a chance that this causes some issues becaue in some cases we
change from getting the window from context to getting it from somewhere
else.
This was meant to help users see which users are likely useful to add, but
it's not so obvious and there are cases where it's useful to re-append the
same workspace.
This fixes crashes, wrong names and inability to append workspaces in
edit mode. We now bypass the append operator so we can easily return
a datablock pointer and work in any mode.
Delete workspaces via the menu was not refreshing the workspace tabs
drawing. This way if you deleted the non-active workspace with the "e" shortcut
from the workspace tab context menu and clicked on the workspace tabs again, it
would crash.
A few notes:
* Deleting a non-active workspace is changing which workspace is then active,
which is really strange.
* Even when deleting the active workspace which workspace then becomes active
seems random.
* Using notifiers (ND_WORKSPACE_DELETE) to delete the workspace seems rather
abusing notifiers in my humble opinion.
This is not an important bugfix anyways, people probably would rarely
run into this. I just ran into it while investigating another bug.
Convention was not to but after discussion on 918941483f we agree its
best to change the convention.
Names now mostly follow RNA.
Some exceptions:
- Use 'nodetrees' instead of 'nodegroups'
since the struct is called NodeTree.
- Use 'gpencils' instead of 'grease_pencil'
since 'gpencil' is a common abbreviation in the C code.
Other exceptions:
- Leave 'wm' as it's a list of one.
- Leave 'ipo' as is for versioning.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
* Area and Workspace duplicate.
* Toggle Area Fullscreen
* Operator Search
* Workspace reorder to front/back (arrows help to know which direction means front/back)
The goal here is to make app templates usable for default templates
that we can ship with Blender. These only have a custom startup.blend
currently and so are quite limited compared to app templates that fully
customize Blender.
But still it seems like the same kind of concept where we should be
sharing the code and UI. It is useful to be able to save a startup.blend
per template, and I can imagine some scripting being useful in the future
as well.
Changes made:
* File > New and Ctrl+N now list the templates, replacing a separate
Application Templates menu that was not as easy to discover.
* File menu now shows name of active template above Save Startup File
and Load Factory Settings to indicate these are saved/loaded per
template.
* The "Default" template was renamed to "General".
* Workspaces can now be added from any of the template startup.blend
files when clicking the (+) button in the topbar.
* User preferences are now fully shared between app templates, unless
the template includes a custom userpref.blend. I think this will be
useful in general, not all app templates need their own keymaps for
example.
* Previously Save User Preferences would save the current app template
and then Blender would start using that template by default. I've
disabled this, to me it seems it was unintentional, or at least not
clear at all that saving user preferences also makes the current
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3690
In the workspace properties a mode can now be configured that is
automatically enabled when switching to the workspace.
This is a test to validate how well it works. The weak point is
that if you don't have an appropriate object already select it will
not switch modes.
See T56475.
This is quite confusing in the current UI, with both startup.blend and
workspaces.blend containing a list of workspaces. In practice you'd usually
want to save workspaces to both files.
The downside of having a single file may be that you then can't disable
certain workspaces by default, but we could add a setting for that.
When switching the workspace in a window that does not yet have a layout
for the newly active workspace, we now duplicate the layout from the
previously active workspace. Previously it duplicated the layout from
the first window in the newly active workspace.
It was a bit odd that the scene was stored per window but not the view
layer. The reasoning was that you would use different view layers for
different tasks. This is still possible, but it's more predictable to
switch them both explicitly, and with child window support manually
syncing the view layers between multiple windows is no longer needed
as often.
* Main windows show a topbar and statusbar, and select a workspace and
scene. They are created with Window > New Main Window.
* Child windows do not show a topbar or statusbar. These follow the
workspace and scene of their parent main window. Created with Window >
New Window or View > Duplicate Area into New Window.
* The purpose of this change is to support multi monitor setups where you
just want to put more editors on the other monitors. Without multiple
topbars and statusbars, working within a single workspace and scene.
Creating multiple main windows is intended to be a concious choice to
do different tasks in different workspaces and scenes.
* Note these changes do not currently affect how the operating system
treats the windows.
* When changing the workspace, the layout in all child windows changes.
This makes sense if we consider child windows to be just a way to
extend the main window across more monitors. In some case it may be
useful to keep the same layout though, we can add an option for this
depending on user feedback.
Don't store pointers to ViewLayer in the workspace, only names. Add specific
relation type since the generic mechanism makes the code hard to follow.
Integrate with pointer restore for undo and library remapping code to avoid
data going out of sync.
Also add relation automatically if there doesn't exists one yet in
BKE_workspace_view_layer_get, because in general it's really hard to ensure
it will exist when making arbitrary scene changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3432
This patch adds support for:
- Per space-type tools (3D view and edit).
- Per mode tools (object, edit, weight-paint .. etc).
The top-bar shows the last activated tools options, this is a design
issue with using a global topbar to show per-space settings.
See D3395
Linking/appending in edit mode currently isn't supported. For workspaces it
should probably be, but we can look into supporting this later.
For now gray out buttons in "Add Workspace" menu while in edit mode.
