This is a general redesign of the File Browser GUI and interaction
methods. For screenshots, check patch D5601.
Main changes in short:
* File Browser as floating window
* New layout of regions
* Popovers for view and filter options
* Vertical list view with interactive column header
* New and updated icons
* Keymap consistency fixes
* Many tweaks and fixes to the drawing of views
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General:
* The file browser now opens as temporary floating window. It closes on
Esc. The header is hidden then.
* When the file browser is opened as regular editor, the header remains
visible.
* All file browser regions are now defined in Python (the button
layout).
* Adjusted related operator UI names.
Keymap:
Keymap is now consistent with other list-based views in Blender, such as
the Outliner.
* Left click to select, double-click to open
* Right-click context menus
* Shift-click to fill selection
* Ctrl-click to extend selection
Operator options:
These previously overlapped with the source list, which caused numerous
issues with resizing and presenting many settings in a small panel area.
It was also generally inconsistent with Blender.
* Moved to new sidebar, which can easily be shown or hidden using a
prominent Options toggle.
* IO operators have new layouts to match this new sidebar, using
sub-panels. This will have to be committed separately (Add-on
repository).
* If operators want to show the options by default, they have the option
to do so (see `WM_FILESEL_SHOW_PROPS`, `hide_props_region`), otherwise
they are hidden by default.
General Layout:
The layout has been changed to be simpler, more standard, and fits
better in with Blender 2.8.
* More conventional layout (file path at top, file name at the bottom,
execute/cancel buttons in bottom right).
* Use of popovers to group controls, and allow for more descriptive
naming.
* Search box is always live now, just like Outliner.
Views:
* Date Modified column combines both date and time, also uses user
friendly strings for recent dates (i.e. "Yesterday", "Today").
* Details columns (file size, modification date/time) are now toggleable
for all display types, they are not hardcoded per display type.
* File sizes now show as B, KB, MB, ... rather than B, KiB, MiB, … They
are now also calculated using base 10 of course.
* Option to sort in inverse order.
Vertical List View:
* This view now used a much simpler single vertical list with columns
for information.
* Users can click on the headers of these columns to order by that
category, and click again to reverse the ordering.
Icons:
* Updated icons by Jendrzych, with better centering.
* Files and folders have new icons in Icon view.
* Both files and folders have reworked superimposed icons that show
users the file/folder type.
* 3D file documents correctly use the 3d file icon, which was unused
previously.
* Workspaces now show their icon on Link/Append - also when listed in
the Outliner.
Minor Python-API breakage:
* `bpy.types.FileSelectParams.display_type`: `LIST_SHORT` and
`LIST_LONG` are replaced by `LIST_VERTICAL` and `LIST_HORIZONTAL`.
Removes the feature where directories would automatically be created if
they are entered into the file path text button, but don't exist. We
were not sure if users use it enough to keep it. We can definitely bring
it back.
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//Combined effort by @billreynish, @harley, @jendrzych, my university
colleague Brian Meisenheimer and myself.//
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5601
Reviewers: Brecht, Bastien
Before there were two options: Paste to original layer called "Paste" and Paste to active layer called "Paste & Merge"
Now, by default the paste is in active layer and the "Paste & Merge" has been renamed "Paste".
For old "Paste", now is called "Paste by Layer" and it's not the default value anymore.
Note: Minor edits to add icons not present in Differential revision.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5591
We try to avoid diffing too much things during edition, but when saving
a file we need to check all possible overridable IDs to ensure we have
all needed override operations...
Was pretty sure that was already in code, but apparently not (or it got
lost at some point...).
This change ensures that operators which needs access to evaluated data
first makes sure there is a dependency graph.
Other accesses to the dependency graph made it more explicit about
whether they just need a valid dependency graph pointer or whether they
expect the graph to be already evaluated.
This replaces OPTYPE_USE_EVAL_DATA which is now removed.
Some general rules about usage of accessors:
- Drawing is expected to happen from a fully evaluated dependency graph.
There is now a function to access it, which will in the future control
that dependency graph is actually evaluated.
This check is not yet done because there are some things to be taken
care about first: for example, post-update hooks might leave scene in
a state where something is still tagged for update.
- All operators which needs to access evaluated state must use
CTX_data_ensure_evaluated_depsgraph().
This function replaces OPTYPE_USE_EVAL_DATA.
The call is generally to be done in the very beginning of the
operator, prior other logic (unless this is some comprehensive
operator which might or might not need access to an evaluated state).
This call is never to be used from a loop.
If some utility function requires evaluated state of dependency graph
the graph is to be passed as an explicit argument. This way it is
clear that no evaluation happens in a loop or something like this.
- All cases which needs to know dependency graph pointer, but which
doesn't want to actually evaluate it can use old-style function
CTX_data_depsgraph_pointer(), assuming that underlying code will
ensure dependency graph is evaluated prior to accessing it.
- The new functions are replacing OPTYPE_USE_EVAL_DATA, so now it is
explicit and local about where dependency graph is being ensured.
This commit also contains some fixes of wrong usage of evaluation
functions on original objects. Ideally should be split out, but in
reality with all the APIs being renamed is quite tricky.
Fixes T67454: Blender crash on rapid undo and select
Speculation here is that sometimes undo and selection operators are
sometimes handled in the same event loop iteration, which leaves
non-evaluated dependency graph.
Fixes T67973: Crash on Fix Deforms operator
Fixes T67902: Crash when undo a loop cut
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: lichtwerk
Maniphest Tasks: T67454
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5343
Simplify preferences by removing the ability to load them from
either the startup.blend or userpref.blend.
Also simplifies updating default preferences by moving
them to a struct definition.
Based on feedback from T66675, the current interface is confusing,
leading to users accidentally overwriting their preferences.
Now, once factory settings are loaded preferences are not saved
and the save button is shown (as when auto-save is disabled).
Tool tips note that factory settings require manual saving
afterwards.
Also rename preference menu items for better consistency
(settings/state -> preferences).
Although the Auto-Run Python Scripts flag isn't used,
this is still a security risk since exclude paths list is.
Further this isn't what users would expect when loading a file &
only some preferences were being loaded so it's not useful.
The behavior for loading factory settings wasn't clear for users.
This commit changes the behavior:
- Loading factory settings always disables auto-save
for the current session.
- The internal setting to skip saving on exit is now exposed
in the preferences (when enabled).
- The menu item "Load Factory Settings (Temporary)" has been removed
since it's always temporary.
This way users can always reset factory settings without
having to consider the combination of options that might cause their
preferences to be overwritten at exit.
If they want to enable auto-save for the current session
this can be done from the preferences.
Cheap tip: anything that is not "Camel Case" and/or that is more than
a few words long should use `TIP_` translation, not `IFACE_` one.
Also added several missing strings (including the one reported in D5056
by Jean First (@robbott), thanks).
It could be argued this was correct behavior, since auto-save
defaults to 'on' nevertheless, auto-saving settings once
the user has disabled auto-save can lead to accidents.
Don't reset the preferences flag when resetting preferences.
Respect do_time flag in on_visible_update, matching behavior of old
dependency graph and avoids unwanted animation updates.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5026
Now, the file does not have to be reloaded in all cases.
Instead, just scripts are enabled and all depsgraphs freed.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5000
Loading factory preferences from the preferences window and triggering a
redraw then would cause the failing assert.
We shouldn't mess with window-manager data when loading preferences
only.
When rendering viewport to an offscreen buffer the buffer was
constructed for non anti aliasing (0 samples). This made the objects
that are drawn by the `object_mode` including `wireframe` draw type
non-anti-aliased.
The offscreen buffers will be constructed based on the user setting for
viewport multisampling (`U.ogl_multisamples`). The same setting will
also be used when previewing scene strips in the sequencer. For now
this only improves wireframe drawing in the scene strips. To improve the
Anti aliasing in the scene strips we need to get finer control in the
draw manager. This will be part of a different patch I am preparing.
Please note that this patch also cleansup some unused code in the offscreen rendering (FSAA code was still existing, but never called)
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T64849
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4907
- Add back info icon at the top.
- Remove icons from the buttons. None of the OS's we support use icons here
- Remove button align. It doesn't work well with the active default highlighting
- Center-align the text inside the buttons
To make this look even nicer, we should add more padding all around the edges, but that could be done separately.
This adds a new dialog that is shown whenever a file is closed.
So, either when a new file is opened, or when Blender quits.
The dialog allows to save unsaved changes. Furthermore it also
allows saving images that have been modified in Blender, but are
not saved yet.
Known limitations:
* Images that have no file path and have not been packed before,
are not saved.
* On MacOS the old dialog is shown when Blender quits.
Reviewers: brecht, billreynish
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4860
