Submitted by Perry Parks (scuey)
From the patch:
This patch enables drag and drop parenting for objects in the outliner.
Drag and drop is supported for a selection of multiple objects as well. Also,
all of the "special" parenting tasks (armature, curve, lattice) are possible
through the usual parenting context menus. For example, drag a mesh object onto
an armature and you are prompted for using bone envelopes, automatic weights,
etc.
Demonstration on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/25698606
Shane Ambler (sambler) for this 12-month vintage!
From description:
One thing with the outliner filter box is it only filters items that
are currently visible. To find what you want you need to manually
expand a few levels so that what you want to find is visible.
This small patch expands items when filtering is done - effectively
turning it into a search.
Currently this does not alter the datablocks view as expanding all
entries takes waaaay tooooo long.
I prevent the expansion of RNA entries for userprefs which prevents
infinite recursion but the datablocks list is just too big for this
approach. I think it would need a custom outliner_build_tree for a
full search.
As per my proposal (http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-
committers/2011-July/032553.html), I've split outliner.c into several
new files based on the purpose of the relevant code.
* outliner_tree.c - building outliner structure
* outliner_draw.c - outliner drawing (including toggle buttons and
their handling)
* outliner_edit.c - all operators for toggling stuff, and/or hotkey
accessed operators. Also KeyingSet and Driver operators go here
* outliner_tools.c - all operators and callbacks used for handling RMB
click on items
* outliner_select.c - stuff for selecting rows, and handling the
active/selected toggling stuff
In a few cases, the split hasn't been totally clear-cut due to cross-
dependencies and other spaghetti. However, in a few cases, I have
managed to remove the need for some of the prototypes that were needed
in the past by judicious reshuffling of functions, which also makes it
easier to actually find what you're looking for.
