this is not well suited to RNA so this is a native python api.
This uses:
bpy.data.libraries.load(filepath, link=False, relative=False)
however the return value needs to use pythons context manager, this means the library loading is confined to a block of code and python cant leave a half loaded library state.
eg, load a single scene we know the name of:
with bpy.data.libraries.load(filepath) as (data_from, data_to):
data_to.scenes = ["Scene"]
eg, load all scenes:
with bpy.data.libraries.load(filepath) as (data_from, data_to):
data_to.scenes = data_from.scenes
eg, load all objects starting with 'A'
with bpy.data.libraries.load(filepath) as (data_from, data_to):
data_to.objects = [name for name in data_from.objects if name.startswith("A")]
As you can see gives 2 objects like 'bpy.data', but containing lists of strings which can be moved from one into another.
CMake build option WITH_PYTHON_MODULE, will build ./bin/bpy.so
This allows 'bpy' to be imported from python or other applications/IDE's which embed python, eg:
python -c "import bpy ; bpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)"
This runs in background mode and has similar restrictions to running a script:
blender --background --python test.py
TODO:
- install to site-packages with blender scripts
- add support for imp.reload()
- use NULL rather then 0 where possible (makes code & function calls more readable IMHO).
- set static variables and functions (exposed some unused vars/funcs).
- use func(void) rather then func() for definitions.
- KeyingSetInfo classes are now collected like Panels, Operators etc so bpy.utils.register_module() can be used.
- move bpy.types.register() to bpy.utils.register_class
In windows this was producing Linking dependence errors because we have BLF_api.h in the /blenfont/ and blf_api.h in /python/generic/. It doesn't produces crash out of the box but I was trying to link both "api" files to the same project (Ketjsi folder). For the linking order was determining what header to use. A workaround is to "include" the file using some ../../ relative folder. But renaming it is less error prone.
Probably Ketsji folder shouldn't link to BLF_api.h anyways, but this is something I will look better later before another commit. In the mean time it's not a good idea to have 2 api files with the same name (for non case-sensitive systems).
- skip fixing file paths on undo.
- simplify bpath alloc and free functions, also pass Main structure so as not to rely on G.main, (needed for file load).
- loop over sequencer plugin and texture voxel paths.
- fix leak in python bpy.utils.blend_path() and use PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() to ensure correct paths with different encodings.
- operators to make paths absolute & relative now redraw the view.
applied to python api and exotic.c, removed some args being passed down which were not needed.
keyword args for new mathutils types were being ignored when they should raise an error.
now addon path is created using the same path functions and selecting where to save the startup.blend
also made some minor changes to path handling funcs.
The reason this didnt work is all sibclasses of pythons type() or PyType_Type in C, have to have their size set to sizeof(PyHeapTypeObject) rather then sizeof(PyTypeObject) as you might expect.
This is strange since its not a heap-class (defined in pythons runtime), but a static C type, so Im not sure about this, and cant find any documentation but it seems to work ok.
- replaced PySys_GetObject("modules") with PyImport_GetModuleDict()
- use defaults for keymap import/export rather then setting the same value every time from the UI scripts.
