Dynamically sized regions in the topbar were flickering due to only updating
their size after redraws. Now there is an optional layout() callback for
all regions in an area to do UI layout first, then refresh the region layout,
and then do the actual drawing for each region.
Task T54753
== Main Features/Changes for Users
* Add horizontal bar at top of all non-temp windows, consisting out of two horizontal sub-bars.
* Upper sub-bar contains global menus (File, Render, etc.), tabs for workspaces and scene selector.
* Lower sub-bar contains object mode selector, screen-layout and render-layer selector. Later operator and/or tool settings will be placed here.
* Individual sections of the topbar are individually scrollable.
* Workspace tabs can be double- or ctrl-clicked for renaming and contain 'x' icon for deleting.
* Top-bar should scale nicely with DPI.
* The lower half of the top-bar can be hided by dragging the lower top-bar edge up. Better hiding options are planned (e.g. hide in fullscreen modes).
* Info editors at the top of the window and using the full window width with be replaced by the top-bar.
* In fullscreen modes, no more info editor is added on top, the top-bar replaces it.
== Technical Features/Changes
* Adds initial support for global areas
A global area is part of the window, not part of the regular screen-layout.
I've added a macro iterator to iterate over both, global and screen-layout level areas. When iterating over areas, from now on developers should always consider if they have to include global areas.
* Adds a TOPBAR editor type
The editor type is hidden in the UI editor type menu.
* Adds a variation of the ID template to display IDs as tab buttons (template_ID_tabs in BPY)
* Does various changes to RNA button creation code to improve their appearance in the horizontal top-bar.
* Adds support for dynamically sized regions. That is, regions that scale automatically to the layout bounds.
The code for this is currently a big hack (it's based on drawing the UI multiple times). This should definitely be improved.
* Adds a template for displaying operator properties optimized for the top-bar. This will probably change a lot still and is in fact disabled in code.
Since the final top-bar design depends a lot on other 2.8 designs (mainly tool-system and workspaces), we decided to not show the operator or tool settings in the top-bar for now. That means most of the lower sub-bar is empty for the time being.
NOTE: Top-bar or global area data is not written to files or SDNA. They are simply added to the window when opening Blender or reading a file. This allows us doing changes to the top-bar without having to care for compatibility.
== ToDo's
It's a bit hard to predict all the ToDo's here are the known main ones:
* Add options for the new active-tool system and for operator redo to the topbar.
* Automatically hide the top-bar in fullscreen modes.
* General visual polish.
* Top-bar drag & drop support (WIP in temp-tab_drag_drop).
* Improve dynamic regions (should also fix some layout glitches).
* Make internal terminology consistent.
* Enable topbar file writing once design is more advanced.
* Address TODO's and XXX's in code :)
Thanks @brecht for the review! And @sergey for the complaining ;)
Differential Revision: D2758
Folders removed entirely:
* //extern/recastnavigation
* //intern/decklink
* //intern/moto
* //source/blender/editors/space_logic
* //source/blenderplayer
* //source/gameengine
This includes DNA data and any reference to the BGE code in Blender itself.
We are bumping the subversion.
Pending tasks:
* Tile/clamp code in image editor draw code.
* Viewport drawing code (so much of this will go away because of BI removal
that we can wait until then to remove this.
This is a way to deal with animated properties in evaluated version
off datablock. Previously, running blender with copy-on-write enabled
will show original values. Now we can see proper properties, while
typing values in still goes to the original datablock.
Thanks Brecht for the review!
Overall 10% more performance on general UI drawing time.
This commit can introduce ordering problem on some elements.
In this case you need to flush the widget cache to ensure the element that
is going to be drawn is drawn on top of any widget base.
To flush the cache use UI_widgetbase_draw_cache_flush.
This is already done for BLF and Icons.
For this we use a new shader that gets it's data from a uniform array.
Vertex shader position the vertices using these data.
Using glUniform is way faster than using imm for that matter.
Like BLF rendering, UI icons are always (as far as I know) non occluded and
displayed above everything else. They also does not overlap with texts so
they can be batched at the same time.
Now that the new 3D viewport draws to a multisample offscreen buffer, there is
no good reason anymore to create an entire multisample window and pay the
performance/memory cost for other regions that don't need it.
GL_MULTISAMPLE now only gets enabled for offscreen buffers, so we don't need
to check for it throughout the UI code anymore.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3062
Use dynamically generated message publish/subscribe
so buttons and manipulators update properly.
This resolves common glitches where manipulators weren't updating
as well as the UI when add-ons exposed properties which
hard coded listeners weren't checking for.
Python can also publish/scribe changes via `bpy.msgbus`.
See D2917
Would happen during panel's refresh drawing, if drawing code had to adjust
final panel position compared to the initial one computed based on the
mouse coordinates, and user had dragged the floating panel around.
Issue fixed by adjusting stored mouse coordinates once final panel
position is known, such that they would directly generate those
coordinates. that way, the basic offset applied to those stored mouse
coordinates during panel dragging is valid, and recreating panel based
on those won't make it jump in screen.
Note that panel will still jump in case user dragged it partially out of
view - we could prevent that, but imho it's better to keep that
behavior, since redraw can generate a popup of different size, which
could end up with a totally out-of-view one...
Hopefully this fix does not break anything else!
This is still far from prefect, but yet much better than what we had so
far (more consistent with inheritent precision available in floats).
Note that this fixes some (currently commented out) units unittests, and
requires adjusting some others, will be done in next commit.
* Numbers with units (especially, angles) where not handled correctly
regarding number of significant digits (spotted by @brecht in T52222
comment, thanks).
* Zero value has no valid log, need to take that into account!
The purpose of the keymap strings is probably for un-embossed menu items
like seen in most pulldowns. I can't see a reason for also adding that
string for regularly drawn buttons within popups, we don't add it
anywhere else in the UI either. So this commit makes sure shortcut
strings are only added to buttons that are drawn like pulldown-menu
items.
The purpose of the keymap strings is probably for un-embossed menu items
like seen in most pulldowns. I can't see a reason for also adding that
string for regularly drawn buttons within popups, we don't add it
anywhere else in the UI either. So this commit makes sure shortcut
strings are only added to buttons that are drawn like pulldown-menu
items.
While drawing nice 'rounded' values is OK also for 'low precision'
editing like dragging and such, it's quite an issue when you type in a
precise value, validate, edit again the value, and find a rounded
version of it instead of what you typed in!
So now, *only when entering textedit of num buttons*, we always get the highest
reasonable precision for floats (and use exponential notation when
values are too low or too high, to avoid tremendous amounts of zero's).
