previous commit (54102) actually reintroduces an old bug where Blender sigfaults when
the sensor and controllers are not from the active object.
The real fix for report #33746 is to clear the "object" property after the operator ran.
I'm not sure why when I call the operator from command line the property is cleared, but not
when I called it from C. Either way all should be working now.
Blender's data link button (typically with menu and searching options)
now has a X icon to clear its contents.
Before you had to click, delete text, enter.
For example:
- Object Parent
- Modifier objects or vertexgroups
This fix saves each user 100 clicks per day, with 100k users
that's 3 billion clicks per year!
- Old issue: on scrolling button views, tooltips could open or stayed open.
- New fix: alt+swipe now changes button values again
- Removed test print, from WIP code project.
- Trackpad swipes now behave same as scrollwheel for listview scrolls
(disabling 2d view scroll when mouse over)
- Added back 2.4 debug print for glGetError()
Only useful for developers - to check what goes on when ogl messes up.
- Made more clear print for read factory default. It's not error :)
When trackpad swipes don't convert to ScrollWheel steps anymore, several hardcoded
wheel events need to support swipe too.
This adds swipe support to:
- Menu item scroll
- Search item scroll
- ALT + number/slider/swatch values
The amount of old style scroll "clicks" is calculated based on how trackad is
being mapped to move a mouse pointer. Move it one widget unit = 1 click.
The swatch option applies trackpad swipe motion in analog way.
It introduces a new (py-extendable and registrable) RNA type, UIList (roughly similar to Panel one), which currently contains only "standard" list's scroll pos and size (but may be expended to include e.g. some filtering data, etc.). This now makes lists completely independent from Panels!
This UIList has a draw_item callback which allows to customize items' drawing from python, that all addons can now use. Incidentally, this also greatly simplifies the C code of this widget, as we do not code any "special case" here anymore!
To make all this work, other changes were also necessary:
* Now all buttons (uiBut struct) have a 'custom_data' void pointer, used currently to store the uiList struct associated with a given uiLayoutListBox.
* DynamicPaintSurface now exposes a new bool, use_color_preview (readonly), saying whether that surface has some 3D view preview data or not.
* UILayout class has now four new (static) functions, to get the actual icon of any RNA object (important e.g. with materials or textures), and to get an enum item's UI name, description and icon.
* UILayout's label() func now takes an optional 'icon_value' integer parameter, which if not zero will override the 'icon' one (mandatory to use "custom" icons as generated for material/texture/... previews).
Note: not sure whether we should add that one to all UILayout's prop funcs?
Note: will update addons using template list asap.
Now scrollbars correctly hide and show, making space for the actual contents
in a region. It solves several old hacks, and puts view2d code a bit more
back in control as well.
Implementation notes:
- The view2d mask feature is working again
- The #define V2D_SCROLL_HORIZONTAL_HIDE means: "turn on hiding".
- Code for UI_view2d_region_reinit() is enforcing better standard view settings
But... two hack/patches needed to be added:
- Region panel drawing: if after generating the button panels it appears
a scroller hides or reveils, it calls all the generating code again.
(a simple scale doesn't work due to rounding differences in layout code)
- View2d code that maps 'tot' and 'cur' rects: if this code detects that
the mask changes, it calcs the map code again.
Also a bugfix (issue in 2.65)
- The left/bottom area split widget was drawing 1 pixel too large sometimes,
leaving bad trails on moving area dividers.
Moving panels in a buttons-region around was calling menu code, reading NULL pointer.
Seems to be an existing issue, not caused by my previous commit :)
Nice formatted version (pictures soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
Short list of main changes:
- Transparent region option (over main region), added code to blend in/out such panels.
- Min size window now 640 x 480
- Fixed DPI for ui - lots of cleanup and changes everywhere. Icon image need correct size still, layer-in-use icon needs remake.
- Macbook retina support, use command line --no-native-pixels to disable it
- Timeline Marker label was drawing wrong
- Trackpad and magic mouse: supports zoom (hold ctrl)
- Fix for splash position: removed ghost function and made window size update after creation immediate
- Fast undo buffer save now adds UI as well. Could be checked for regular file save even...
Quit.blend and temp file saving use this now.
- Dixed filename in window on reading quit.blend or temp saves, and they now add a warning in window title: "(Recovered)"
- New Userpref option "Keep Session" - this always saves quit.blend, and loads on start.
This allows keeping UI and data without actual saves, until you actually save.
When you load startup.blend and quit, it recognises the quit.blend as a startup (no file name in header)
- Added 3D view copy/paste buffers (selected objects). Shortcuts ctrl-c, ctrl-v (OSX, cmd-c, cmd-v).
Coded partial file saving for it. Could be used for other purposes. Todo: use OS clipboards.
- User preferences (themes, keymaps, user settings) now can be saved as a separate file.
Old option is called "Save Startup File" the new one "Save User Settings".
To visualise this difference, the 'save startup file' button has been removed from user preferences window. That option is available as CTRL+U and in File menu still.
- OSX: fixed bug that stopped giving mouse events outside window.
This also fixes "Continuous Grab" for OSX. (error since 2009)
This rewinds the fix for revision 50483.
- the removed code there (as comment said) closes menus on hoovering over another
button in panels. Is unfinished feature to allow quick inspecting menus
by mouse-hold going over menu popup buttons.
- It added yet another check for closing menus - should be done with ->saferct
- The actual bug was simple; the block flag with UI_BLOCK_MOVEMOUSE_QUIT was
accidentally cleared for colorpickers.
with arbitrary button layouts like multi column menus, because it was making
assumptions about position of previous/next buttons which doesn't work in
general.
When this new subtypes is used, then string of property is hidden using
asterisks, e.g.: mysecretpassword -> ****************
This code was reviewed and modified by Brecht. Thanks very much:
- https://codereview.appspot.com/6713044/
This new subtype of string property is intended mostly for Add-on developers
writing Add-on which communicates with some server (http, sql, ftp, verse,
etc.). When this server requires user authentication and user has to type
username and password, then current API didn't allow to type 'hidden' password,
e.g. when you want to demonstrate this script, then everybody can see this
security password. Some examples of Add-on which could use this new subtype:
- On-line database of textures
- Integration of render farm
- Integration of Verse
Security Notes:
- You can copy paste hiddent string of property from text input using (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V),
but you can do this in other GUI toolkits too (this behavior it is widely used).
- Text of string property is stored in plain text, but it is widely used in other
GUI toolkits (Qt, Gtk, etc.).
Simple examples:
- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/369894/draw_op_passwd.py
- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/369894/blender-password.png
Add an optional ghost argument to set the new mouse location when un-grabbing. - without this the mouse would flicker at the old location before moving to the new location - when using the color picker for eg.
