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This support layout.separator_spacer() to be used by headers as a way to
dynamically separate the ui buttons.
Right now no UI file is changed, though we can use this right away in the
timeline, and shortly after in the viewport header (moving settings from
the topbar to it).
Original design by William Reynish.
Review: Campbell Barton
D3468
== 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
NOTE: This is really a backend-only implementation, nothing is changed in the UI
Adds a tab button-type and the basic drawing and handling code for it.
More work needs to be done on it, but idea is to get in ready for usage in the
topbar.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1371
In case two neighbor buttons are very small, their total width (or height) can remain below
max authorized delta, and hence wrong side could be detected as 'common side' for the pair.
This is now fixed by checking both opposite sides at once.
Also, we expect buttons to have some width and height to be considered alignable now!
Took me two days to sort that out, grrrr!
Looks like UI code can produce widgets with same left/top positions (in very narrow space case).
Not nice, but we do not really care, UI becomes unusable way before we reach that point anyway.
This new code fixes a tons of issues with previous one, which basically was epic-failing
in many non-basic cases (especially mixed columns and rows with column-dominant layout).
It basically no more relies over order of buttons declaration in the uiBlock, instead it
finds and stores spatial neighbors and uses that data to compute needed stitching.
See code comments for details.
New code seems to be roughly ten times slower than old one (for complex grouped layouts),
that is, about a few microsecconds per alignment group - this remains reasonable.
Also, ui-align code becomming rather big in itself, it was separated in
own new `interface_align.c` file.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, severin
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1573
