This is done by adding a new button type, GRIP, similar to other numbuttons
(scroll, slider, ...), which here controls the preview height.
Then, we add a new DNA struct to be able to save that height in Blend files
(note I choose not to use Panel struct for this, because we would then have the
same limitation we used to have with uiLists, only one preview per panel
and no preview outside panel).
This implies a change to template_preview UI RNA/py API (each preview needs an ID),
but this is backward compatible, as by default datablock type will be used if no ID is
given (which means e.g. all material previews with no ID will have same height).
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D342
Make HSL wheel useful in compositing.
In HSL, 0.5 lightness corresponds to most vibrant colors so make that
default for locked wheels (previous value of 1.0 just made it white).
Also, unlock the wheel for both very bright and very dark colors.
and value/lightness slider stops midway.
Issue here is manyfold:
Color wheel does not support properties with different soft min/max
values than 1.0 (which after experimenting a little I left as is), and
also color management is completely destroying the mapping between the
value slider and the RNA property value range. To solve this I have
disabled color management by setting the property to gamma corrected
(only in RNA, Sequence editor coders please check!), otherwise it will
just become a big mess of tracking where color comes from and what kind
of color transforms it needs in different color pickers (if property has
non normalized range etc). HSL is not really meant to represent colors
outside a normalized space so I have disabled setting lightness above
1.0 in this model.
This will work, however it is hacking a color picker to do something
other than what it is supposed to do: pick a color from the screen
accurately. Which means normalized values always. The non normalized
colors picked for lift/gain/gamma through the pickers do not correspond
to any accurate colors; they are rather a user friendly way to 'sort of'
choose a color and a gamma with an indication of maximum value.
I think that lift/gamma/gain nodes need a dedicated widget for this
(besides it is quite clear that some options are written for that use
case) -or- a separate gamma multiplier for the picked color (which
should itself be in a normalized space)
This was supposed to fix inaccuracies between S-H wheel but it makes the
colors selected through the SV-H color cube wrong (see http://
%28SV-H%29-Inaccurate). Instead of deactivating color management for SV
and H widgets just reenable correction for the Hue wheel. This is wrong
because HSV always refers to display space and we -have- to account for
that when using linear color RNA properties.
This is a standard Hue - Saturation - Lightness model
(see for instance entry on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV)
Note though the difference between HSV and HSL saturation, which are not the same.
The advantage of having this color selection scheme is that artists can select
shades and tints of a color easily by using the lightness slider. Also colors
are arranged on (approximated) perceived lightness on the color wheel.
Beware, Old files opened with this preference saved will crash!
Reviewers: sergey, brecht, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D385
Enum icon-only buttons were getting their strings set,
then truncated with blenders string shortening methods, then not drawn
because there was no room (since buttons are icon width).
Modify UI code so icon-only buttons don't get names and passing "" to a
button won't have its text set later on.
Note this commit only makes search menus wider and adds shortening to their strings.
Adding tooltips here is not trivial, would need much bigger changes...
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D341
Adds some padding to the left of the icon, adds more space around the separator
line and make it more visible, and add some spacing at the top and bottom of
the menu. Ref T37794
Reviewed By: dingto, billrey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D223
* Now only middle-clip when both left and right parts of remaining strings are at least two times icon-width (thus most short labels will never be middle-clipped).
* Add a trailing ellipsis to right-clipped strings (unless it would take more than 20% of whole available width, in this case just clip chars, to keep as much data visible as possible!).
of the drawstr and replaces the middle by '...'
Rationnal:
It's usually easier to figure out what a troncated string means if you have both its start and end parts.
Details:
It currently affects all UI items (text fields, buttons, labels...).
Only exceptions are buttons inside menus, text fields & co being edited, and numbuttons/sliders.
Note that some static texts (like panels' titles or items in outliner) do not use usual UI items,
and just draw the whole text, using OpenGL to clip it. Will make another patch to fix this.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht, carter2422, #user_interface
Reviewed by: brecht, carter2422
CC: billrey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D114
This also simplifies button clipping which was attempting to detect
offsets that were applied afterwards,
Now apply text clipping after adjusting the button rect margins.
When the entire label was clipped, the right aligned number component
could be clipped on its left hand side too.
So "Foo: 1.00" could be clipped to ".00"
