Now scrollbars correctly hide and show, making space for the actual contents
in a region. It solves several old hacks, and puts view2d code a bit more
back in control as well.
Implementation notes:
- The view2d mask feature is working again
- The #define V2D_SCROLL_HORIZONTAL_HIDE means: "turn on hiding".
- Code for UI_view2d_region_reinit() is enforcing better standard view settings
But... two hack/patches needed to be added:
- Region panel drawing: if after generating the button panels it appears
a scroller hides or reveils, it calls all the generating code again.
(a simple scale doesn't work due to rounding differences in layout code)
- View2d code that maps 'tot' and 'cur' rects: if this code detects that
the mask changes, it calcs the map code again.
Also a bugfix (issue in 2.65)
- The left/bottom area split widget was drawing 1 pixel too large sometimes,
leaving bad trails on moving area dividers.
caused by not projecting points behind the perspective view,
even though this worked in 2.64 the values were flipped (rotating direction was reversed and the center point was flipped).
added V3D_PROJ_TEST_CLIP_NEAR, when omitted ED_view3d_project_*** will project points from behind a perspective view plane.
- Recoded soft shadow drawing for menus, giving better predictable results
(and round off nicer on top side, was looking bad still)
- Brought it under DPI control
- Added Theme setting to control size and strength for it.
Max size 24 pix:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/File:MenuShadow.png
- Exported via Inkscape a 16 and 32 pixel bitmap version
- Use these as mipmap levels for OpenGL texture drawing.
- Changed code to get right sizes for drawing icons - better than last week's method.
Todo:
- Custom icons don't work yet (old one)
- Missing icons in the svg
- The .sh script for inkscape needs changed to support this
(now do manual saving)
ED_region_visible_rect(ar, rect)
Returns the visible rect inside a region, subtracting the overlapping UI regions.
Added with minimal overhead, only called once per region draw.
Also fixes the 'Auto Key' warning print in 3d window (was behind properties)
With the view3d 'Render Only' option, grease pencil wouldn't draw, but for OpenGL render it did.
Since grease pencil can be very useful in opengl renders, enable grease pencil drawing with 'Render Only' option in the viewport,
and add a checkbox in the grease pencil header not to draw (unchecking each layer is annoying and applies to all spaces).
Notes and image:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
- now each editor has own settings for "show panel header" and
"show panel background", and colors+alpha for this.
- this setting used to be global for all editors, but it can conflict
with looks of specific editors.
- Now you can set for editors to show panels with a 100% transparent
tool/properties region.
Note: read XML theme files now might get an error, Campbell will fix.
Nice formatted version (pictures soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Usability
Short list of main changes:
- Transparent region option (over main region), added code to blend in/out such panels.
- Min size window now 640 x 480
- Fixed DPI for ui - lots of cleanup and changes everywhere. Icon image need correct size still, layer-in-use icon needs remake.
- Macbook retina support, use command line --no-native-pixels to disable it
- Timeline Marker label was drawing wrong
- Trackpad and magic mouse: supports zoom (hold ctrl)
- Fix for splash position: removed ghost function and made window size update after creation immediate
- Fast undo buffer save now adds UI as well. Could be checked for regular file save even...
Quit.blend and temp file saving use this now.
- Dixed filename in window on reading quit.blend or temp saves, and they now add a warning in window title: "(Recovered)"
- New Userpref option "Keep Session" - this always saves quit.blend, and loads on start.
This allows keeping UI and data without actual saves, until you actually save.
When you load startup.blend and quit, it recognises the quit.blend as a startup (no file name in header)
- Added 3D view copy/paste buffers (selected objects). Shortcuts ctrl-c, ctrl-v (OSX, cmd-c, cmd-v).
Coded partial file saving for it. Could be used for other purposes. Todo: use OS clipboards.
- User preferences (themes, keymaps, user settings) now can be saved as a separate file.
Old option is called "Save Startup File" the new one "Save User Settings".
To visualise this difference, the 'save startup file' button has been removed from user preferences window. That option is available as CTRL+U and in File menu still.
- OSX: fixed bug that stopped giving mouse events outside window.
This also fixes "Continuous Grab" for OSX. (error since 2009)
this may introduce bugs which I didn't catch, but they are very easy to identify in a debug build which has asserts to ensure the arrays are valid before use.
in my own test drawing ~98,304 quads - this gave an overall ~16% drawing speedup.
a few areas that use ED_view3d_win_to_segment_clip() didnt take into account the case where the segment was filly clipped, some callers even needed the segment not to be clipped.
- added ED_view3d_win_to_segment()
- ED_view3d_win_to_segment_clip() now returns FALSE if the segment is totally clipped, but the start/ends of the line are not zero'd as they were before.
adding meshes were scaling the user input values so the distance on the button didnt relate to the scale of the object added.
Now use an invoke function that scales unset default values.
turns out there were copy-pasted functions for operator search popups which were identical except that one skipped internal ops.
de-duplicate so both work the same now.
Snapping operator in action editor for grease pencil and mask wasn't implemented. We could probably re-enabled/fix/cleanup more things in this area (e.g. use a custom poll func for operators not supporting gp/mask, instead of silently doing nothing), but this is for after 2.65 imho).
This commit makes BKE_image_acquire_ibuf referencing result, which means once
some area requested for image buffer, it'll be guaranteed this buffer wouldn't
be freed by image signal.
To de-reference buffer BKE_image_release_ibuf should now always be used.
To make referencing working correct we can not rely on result of
image_get_ibuf_threadsafe called outside from thread lock. This is so because
we need to guarantee getting image buffer from list of loaded buffers and it's
referencing happens atomic. Without lock here it is possible that between call
of image_get_ibuf_threadsafe and referencing the buffer IMA_SIGNAL_FREE would
be called. Image signal handling too is blocking now to prevent such a
situation.
Threads are locking by spinlock, which are faster than mutexes. There were some
slowdown reports in the past about render slowdown when using OSX on Xeon CPU.
It shouldn't happen with spin locks, but more tests on different hardware would
be really welcome. So far can not see speed regressions on own computers.
This commit also removes BKE_image_get_ibuf, because it was not so intuitive
when get_ibuf and acquire_ibuf should be used.
Thanks to Ton and Brecht for discussion/review :)
These timing data can then be used during conversion to Curve objects, to create a path animation (i.e. an Evaluation Time F-Curve) exactly reproducing the drawing movements.
Aside from this "main feature", the patch brings several fixes/enhancements:
* Stroke smoothing/simplifying will no more move the start/end points of a stroke (this was rather annoying sometimes!).
* Also optimized smoothing code (even though not really noticeable on a modern computer, it now uses less memory and runs faster).
* When converting to curve, you now have the following new possibilities:
** Normalize the weight values (currently, they will get "stroke width * 0.1", i.e. would range by default from 0.0 to 0.3...).
** Scale the radius values to your liking (again, currently they are set from stroke width times 0.1)!
** Link all strokes into a single curve, using zero-radius sections (this is mandatory to use the dynamic feature!).
Here is a small demo video: http://youtu.be/VwWEXrnQAFI
Will update user manual later today.
