This commit makes the panel expansion set based on the search results
when the active tab in the properties editor changes. The multi-tab
search patch (D8859) actually doesn't handle this because it uses a
different code path.
This feature uncovered a subtle but fairly significant issue with the
implementation of property search (More details in T81113). Basically,
the search needed multiple redraws to properly display the expansion of
panels based on the search results. Because there is no animation of
panel expansion when switching tabs, the problem was exposed only now.
With this commit, hiding of "search only" buttons and panel size
calculation happens in a single final step of the panel layout pass.
The "search only" layout root flag is removed. Instead every button
inside a panel header is in a single "uiButtonGroup" marked with a
specific "in header" flag, an idea which could be generalized in the
future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9006
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.
Currently there's no way to know if a button is inactive when it doesn't
match the search results, because they use the same 50% gray level.
This isn't a huge problem, but it could lead to confusion. This commit
uses a subtle solution, a 25% opacity when the button is inactive and
also filtered by search.
This requires flipping the meaning of the UI_SEARCH_FILTER_MATCHES
flag in the code, and also adding a widget_alpha_factor utility in
the widget code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8975
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.
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.
Setting the search match flag every time property search runs can
invalidate the results for panel headers. Instead, clear the flag on
every redraw and or the result of every search in the panel to it.
E.g. the 'x' icons or eyedropper icons in text buttons. They didn't use
to have any mouse over feedback, now we dim the icon until hovered.
This kind of feedback helps users see that the icons are interactive,
and if they are within their interaction hotspot.
This adds a search bar to the properties editor. The full search for
every tab isn't included in this patch, but the interaction with
panels, searching behavior, UI, region level, and DNA changes are
included here.
The block-level search works by iterating over the block's button
groups and checking whether they match the search. If they do, they
are tagged with a flag, and the block's panel is tagged too. For
every update (text edit), the panel's expansion is set to whether
the panel has a result or not. The search also checks for matching
strings inside enums and in panel labels.
One complication to this that isn't immediately apparent is that
closed panel's subpanels have to be searched too. This adds some
complexity to the area-level panel layout code.
Possible Future Improvements:
- Use the new fuzzy search in BLI
- Reset panels to their expansion before the search started if
the user escape out of the text box.
- Open all child panels of a panel with expansion.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8856
This is needed for property search (upcoming patch D8856) where a
buttons labels are often separate buttons, but we need to highlight
the label to show that a property is a search result. This is
especially important in "property split" layouts where the label is
almost always another button in a separate column.
The button groups here are basically a flattened view of the buttons
in the layout tree. Every function that adds a new set of buttons
creates a new button group, and the new buttons are automatically
added to the most recent group. Then, each group is searched
separately in the property search phase. It's important that every
function adding a new button set calls layout_root_new_button_group.
Note that this won't be disabled when property search isn't active.
It may be useful for other things in the future, and trying to pass
that information to layout functions didn't feel worth it to me.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8783
For the man rationale behind this design, see 49f088e2d0. Further,
this removes users of uiBut.a1/uiBut.a2, which is a very ugly design
choice (hard to reason about).
Note that I had to do rather ugly, specific exceptions for the number
buttons in `ui_def_but_rna()`. But once all users of a1/a2 are removed,
this special handling shouldn't be needed anymore.
I also had to move a sanity check out of the button definition. It's now
moved into a new debug only sanity checking function executed when
finishing the layout definition (block end).
This was reported for the "Add Node" search functionality, but is
relevant in other searches as well.
So e.g. when searching for "Separate XYZ", typing "sep", then " " (with
the intention to type "X" next) would clear the search field. Now use
the same method (matching against all search words) as in F3 searching
('menu_search_update_fn') in other searches as well [searching IDs,
property objects, finding nodes,...]
This should give a much nicer search experience in general.
Note: this does not touch other searches in the Dopesheet, Outliner,
Filebrowser or User Preferences that have other search implementations.
Maniphest Tasks: T78084
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8232
- Use const in some places where applicable
- Use consistent variable names in some places
- Use "r_" prefix for return arguments
- Declare variables in smaller scope where they are used
For the main rationale behind this design, see 49f088e2d0. Further,
this removes users of uiBut.a1, which is a very ugly design
choice (hard to reason about).
Part of T74432.
For the main rationale behind this design, see 03b122e2a18df. Further,
this removes users of `uiBut.a1`, which is a very ugly design
choice (hard to reason about).
Part of T74432.
For the main rationale behind this design, see 03b122e2a18df. Further,
this removes users of `uiBut.a1`/`uiBut.a2`, which is a very ugly design
choice (hard to reason about).
Part of Part of T74432.
The current on-size-fits-all `uiBut` creates quite a mess, where it's
hard to reason about which members are free for use, under which
conditions they are used and how.
`uiBut` also has members that aren't used at times, violating the "don't
pay for what you don't use" principle.
To address this, we want to move to typed buttons, where `uiBut` is just
a base struct and each type extends it as needed. That structures data
better and type specific data is only available if it's actually used by
a button type.
Two trade-offs:
* Many casts to the derived type have to be done.
* Sometimes we change the button type after it's created. So I had to
add logic to reallocate the button for use with the new, possibly
derived struct. Ideally that wouldn't be needed, but for now that's
what we have.
Part of T74432.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7610
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Campbell Barton
This replaces header include guards with `#pragma once`.
A couple of include guards are not removed yet (e.g. `__RNA_TYPES_H__`),
because they are used in other places.
This patch has been generated by P1561 followed by `make format`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8466
button
This was reported for the FCurve modifier restrict ranges, but might fail
elsewhere, too. Reason is that the post_but has its range (hardmin/
hardmax etc) set before the updates to the active button take place, so
changes here dont end up on the post_but (even though the RNA range
function is properly called for a new defined button - new one is not the
same as the post_but though).
Now update the ranges on the post_but when that gets active.
Fixes T78763
Maniphest Tasks: T78763
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8265
Use 'emboss' instead of 'draw_type' as enum, layout & functions use
the term emboss.
This issue was noted by @Poulpator in D8414, as `dt` is also an
abbreviation for delta-time.
Custom driver functions need access to the dependency graph that is
triggering the evaluation of the driver. This patch passes the
dependency graph pointer through all the animation-related calls.
Instead of passing the evaluation time to functions, the code now passes
an `AnimationEvalContext` pointer:
```
typedef struct AnimationEvalContext {
struct Depsgraph *const depsgraph;
const float eval_time;
} AnimationEvalContext;
```
These structs are read-only, meaning that the code cannot change the
evaluation time. Note that the `depsgraph` pointer itself is const, but
it points to a non-const depsgraph.
FCurves and Drivers can be evaluated at a different time than the
current scene time, for example when evaluating NLA strips. This means
that, even though the current time is stored in the dependency graph, we
need an explicit evaluation time.
There are two functions that allow creation of `AnimationEvalContext`
objects:
- `BKE_animsys_eval_context_construct(Depsgraph *depsgraph, float
eval_time)`, which creates a new context object from scratch, and
- `BKE_animsys_eval_context_construct_at(AnimationEvalContext
*anim_eval_context, float eval_time)`, which can be used to create a
`AnimationEvalContext` with the same depsgraph, but at a different
time. This makes it possible to later add fields without changing any
of the code that just want to change the eval time.
This also provides a fix for T75553, although it does require a change
to the custom driver function. The driver should call
`custom_function(depsgraph)`, and the function should use that depsgraph
instead of information from `bpy.context`.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8047
This means all the antiailasing is done inside the fragment shader.
We use a Signed Distance Field to draw the 2D rounded boxes. This ensure
the best quality for AA.
This reduce the averge Batch for widget to 16 verts instead of ~600 and
reduce overshading a lot.
Theme Emboss alpha and tria alpha needs to be changed after this refactor.
The shadow drawing is left unchanged and still use geometry.
Reviewed By: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7833
This implements a general system to implement drag and drop, subpanels,
and UI animation for the stack UIs in Blender. There are NO functional
changes in this patch, but it makes it relatively trivial to implement
these features for stacks.
The biggest complication to using panels to implement the UI for lists
is that there can be multiple modifiers of the same type. Currently there
is an assumed 1 to 1 relationship between every panel and its type, but
there can be multiple list items of the same type, so we have to break
this relationship. The mapping between panels and their data is stored
with an index in the panel's runtime struct.
To make use the system for a list like modifiers, four components
must be added:
1. A panel type defined and registered for each list data type, with a
known mapping between list data types and panel idnames.
1. A function called by interface code to build the add the panel
layouts with the provided helper functions.
- UI_panel_list_matches_data will check if the panel list needs to
be rebuilt.
- UI_panels_free_instanced will remove the existing list panels
- UI_panel_add_instanced adds a list panel of a given type.
3. An expand flag for the list data and implementations of
get_list_data_expand_flag and set_list_data_expand_flag.
4. For reordering, the panel type's reorder callback. This is called
when the instanced panels are drag-dropped. This requires
implementing a "move to index" operator for the list data.
Reviewed By: Severin, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7490
The reason to have this isn't quite clear, but it looks like a vestige
of the 2.5 transition. Removing this makes dragging panels feel
much more responsive.
Thanks to Julian Eisel @Severin for the original change.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7803
Also remove draw-manager & depsgraph headers in interface_icons.c
Change this in 2.83 to prevent merge issues in master with
interface_intern.h header.
Makes the following layout changes possible:
{F8473498} {F8473499} {F8473502}
The next commit will contain many layout changes to make good use of
these new possibilities. The result should be more consistent, easier to
read and should give a more organized impression. Additionally, it
should be possible to replace many sub-panels with compacter layouts.
Main changes:
* Checkboxes now respect the property split layouts
* Add support for row and column headers (i.e.
`uiLayout.column(heading="Foo")`, `uiLayout.row(heading="Bar")`). If the
first property added to this layout doesn't insert anything into the label
split column, the heading is inserted there. Otherwise, it's inserted as own
item.
* Add support for manually inserting decorators for an existing item
(`uiLayout.prop_decorator()`). That way layout creators can manually insert
this, which was the only way I saw to support property split layouts with a
checkbox before the actual property. {F8471883}
* Autogenerated layouts for operator properties look bad if there are only
checkboxes (which only use half the region width). So before creating the
layout, we iterate over visible properties and disable split layout if all
are booleans. I think this is fine, if needed we could also add layout hints
to operators.
* `uiTemplateOperatorPropertyButs()` now handles macros itself, the caller
used to be responsible for this. Code that didn't handle these so far never
used macros I think, so this change should be invisible.
* Remove manual property split layout from autogenerated operator properties
layout.
* Padding of checkboxes is tweaked to make their label visually more connected
to the checkboxes.
* Support split layout for menus (should work for `uiLayout.menu()`,
`.operator_menu_enum()`, `.prop_menu_enum()`, maybe more)
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T65965
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7427
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, William Reynish, Pablo Vazques
- Show dimmed text for the menu entries leading up to the menu item.
- Show icons between the menu text and menu item.
- Use unicode right pointing triangle instead of arrow.
When updating the active button, the search data wasn't updated, so it
kept using the old pointers. A check in `ui_rna_collection_search_cb()`
relied on this incorrect behavior so I had to fix that too. Note that
the previous commit was also needed for the second fix to work.
Caused by c46dcdf887.
This has some advantages over operator search:
- Some operators need options set to be usefully accessed.
- Shows key bindings to access menus
(for actions that don't have key bindings themselves).
- Non operator actions such as check-boxes are also shown.
- Menu items can control execution context, using invoke or execute
where appropriate so we can control how the operator runs.
Part of the design task T74157.
This can be tested using the 'Experimental' preferences section
or selected in the key-map editor.
