For buttons that edit array properties, the soft min/max and slider ranges are
based on the range of all values in the array. However for alpha this does not
make much sense, the only reasonable range is 0..1 even when there are RGB
values larger than 1. So treat alpha as an individual property.
Activating buttons was running too early, before the popup was
positioned on the screen,
causing data-selectors to be positioned incorrectly.
As the early button activation isn't needed, remove this call.
Ensure this doesn't happen again with an assert.
Partially reverts 2250b5cefe.
Removing the user count and fake user count icons was controversial (which was
expected) and there are a few further changes needed, that won't make it in
time for the release, see D9946.
While there is a design to bring back the user count and fake user indicators,
a new design idea was proposed that the UI team wants to follow. This came too
late for the 2.92 release, the new design is targeted at the 2.93 release now.
Meanwhile, UI team decision was to simply revert the design changes.
The new design is being worked on in https://developer.blender.org/T84669.
Note that this commit does not revert some internal changes done in
2250b5cefe. Namely the introduction of `ed_util_ops.c` and data-block
operators in there. These will still be needed in the new design.
The previous design is rather old and has a couple of problems:
* Scalability: The current solution of adding little icon buttons next to the
data-block name field doesn't scale well. It only works if there's a small
number of operations. We need to be able to place more items there for better
data-block management. Especially with the introduction of library overrides.
* Discoverability: It's not obvious what some of the icons do. They appear and
disappear, but it's not obvious why some are available at times and others
not.
* Unclear Status: Currently their library status (linked, indirectly linked,
broken link, library override) isn't really clear.
* Unusual behavior: Some of the icon buttons allow Shift or Ctrl clicking to
invoke alternative behaviors. This is not a usual pattern in Blender.
This patch does the following changes:
* Adds a menu to the right of the name button to access all kinds of operations
(create, delete, unlink, user management, library overrides, etc).
* Make good use of the "disabled hint" for tooltips, to explain why buttons are
disabled. The UI team wants to establish this as a good practise.
* Use superimposed icons for duplicate and unlink, rather than extra buttons
(uses less space, looks less distracting and is a nice + consistent design
language).
* Remove fake user and user count button, they are available from the menu now.
* Support tooltips for superimposed icons (committed mouse hover feedback to
master already).
* Slightly increase size of the name button - it was already a bit small
before, and the move from real buttons to superimposed icons reduces usable
space for the name itself.
* More clearly differentiate between duplicate and creating a new data-block.
The latter is only available in the menu.
* Display library status icon on the left (linked, missing library, overridden,
asset)
* Disables "Make Single User" button - in review we weren't sure if there are
good use-cases for it, so better to see if we can remove it.
Note that I do expect some aspects of this design to change still. I think some
changes are problematic, but others disagreed. I will open a feedback thread on
devtalk to see what others think.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8554
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
Design discussed and agreed on with the UI team, also see T79959.
For the Asset Browser, it needs to be possible to drag assets into various
editors, which may not come from the current .blend file. In other words, the
dragging needs to work with just the asset metadata, without direct access to
the data-block itself.
Idea is simple: When dragging an asset, store the source file-path and
data-block name and when dropping, append the data-block. It uses existing drop
operators, but the function to get the dropped data-block is replaced with one
that returns the local data-block, or, in case of an external asset, appends
the data-block first.
The drop operators need to be adjusted to use this new function that respects
assets. With this patch it only works for dragging assets into the 3D view.
Note that I expect this to be a short-lived change. A refactor like D4071 is
needed to make the drag & drop system more future proof for assets and other
use cases.
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9721
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel
This is similar to c4a2067130130d, but applies to the general UI and is only
about single data-blocks. Here there was a similar problem: How can buttons
pass the data they represent to operators? We currently resort to ugly ad-hoc
solutions like `UI_context_active_but_get_tab_ID()`. So the operator would need
to know that it is executed on a tab button that represents a data-block.
A single button can now hand operators a data-block to operate on. The operator
can request it via the "id" context member (`CTX_data_pointer_get_type(C, "id",
&RNA_ID)` in C, `bpy.context.id` in .py).
In this commit, it is already set in the following places:
* Generic RNA button code sets it to the pointed to data-block, if the button
represents a data-block RNA pointer property. (I.e for general data-block
search buttons.)
* Data-block selectors (`templateID`) set it to the currently active data-block.
* The material slot UI-List sets it for each slot to the material it represents.
The button context menu code is modified so its operators use the context set
for the layout of its parent button (i.e. `layout.context_pointer_set()`).
No user visible changes. This new design isn't actually used yet. It will be
soon for asset operators.
Reviewed as part of https://developer.blender.org/D9717.
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
Layout block safety sizes were not scaled correctly with interface scale.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9569
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
The logic for separator-spacers (used here for right-alignment) didn't take
region scaling into account. Usually that's not an issue because they are
otherwise only used in headers which can't zoom.
The overlap with the `Panel` flags that start with "PNL" was quite
confusing because wasn't clear which enum a flag was from. The
new names are a bit longer, but the clarity is worth it.
Re-enables support for menus to have items without identifier or name that can be used to separate sections.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9463
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
The current layout gave too little space for the full "Search" string inside
the button.
Fix this by making sure radio-buttons have their text center aligned by default
in pop-ups too, like they do anywhere else.
This does affect a few other cases, e.g. the "RGB"/"HSV"/"Hex" radio-toggles
for color pickers. But this should be fine, I don't think they were ever
intentionally using left-aligned text (while similar buttons outside of pop-ups
didn't).
The list of buttons in the button group needs to be updated to take into
account the old button inserted into the button list for the new block.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9428
This commit contains some improvements to this function to make this
function more purposeful and readable.
- Split updating information of the old button to a new function.
- Remove some 7 year old code disabled with `#if 0`.
- Add comments explaining some of the less obvious aspects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9117
Menus with categories gain a dividing line and omit the title.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5135
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
Corrects incorrect usage of contraction for 'it is', when possessive 'its' was required.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9250
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
With all the work on DNA defaults for 2.91, it's nice to expose this
convenient operator. This was already hardcoded in the UI code to the
backspace key, adding it to the keymap instead will make the shortcut
automatically show in the button right click menu.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9219
Changing the color of monochrome alert icons would not change until the theme was reloaded.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9062
Reviewed by Harley Acheson
Change to monochrome version of the large alert icons and use 'Question' for the the Quit Confirm dialog box.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9062
Reviewed by Pablo Vazquez
This makes it unecessary to create a button group when the block
is created, giving more flexibility when creating the first group-- for
example, creating the first button group with special parameters.
For a future patch (D9006) we need these groups for longer than just the
the layout process, in order to differentiate buttons in panel headers.
It may also be helpful in the future to have a way to access related
buttons added in the same uiLayout.prop call. With this commit, the
groups are stored in and destructed with the uiBlock.
Now versioning UserDef is run in readfile.c,
as is done for other Blender data.
Previously versioning was mixed with other run-time initialization,
so it needed to be called later by the window manager.
Version patching userpref.blend wasn't using the correct version,
causing settings not to be properly updated.
This seems the likely cause of T70196 and similar bugs.
Where the if statement was just a check for an error or an unhandled
condition and there are no else statements, the rest of the function
doesn't need to be indented.
Since the search is applied all in one phase, there is no need to store
a reference to the search filter in every uiBlock. Instead just pass it
as an argument to UI_block_apply_search_filter.
It's generally considered a better codestyle to check conditions early
and exit early when they are not met, over having most logic of a
function within a big `if`-block. Otherwise people have to go over the
entire block to see if there's possibly an `else` somewhere, or any
followup logic.
There's the old and ugly hack where the `uiBut.poin` points to the
button itself. When reallocating the button we have to update that
pointer of course.
The function this was in already checks the conditions under which it
can operate (as it should). No need to force the caller to do these
(quite specific) checks, the function can just do nothing if the button
doesn't need these operations.
Otherwise we'd have to always execute these checks before calling, which
makes calling it a hassle, makes the code harder to follow and generally
harder to maintain (what if the conditions change?).
