Example sequencer menu
self.layout.column()
self.layout.item_enumO("SEQUENCER_OT_effect_strip_add", property='type', value='ADD', text="Effect Strip (Add)")
* layout.split() now takes a percentage argument to control
the split position.
* ID template now works for more than just the Text ID type,
includes and icon, and some other fixes.
* Accept None as NULL pointers through python function calls.
* Added type callback for pointers back, it's useful still in
some cases. Made Object.data editable using this, the pointer
type varying based on object type.
* Wrap pin ID pointer in buttons space.
* Added subclasses for text and surface curve ID blocks, to
organize data better and get proper icons.
* Added RNA_type_to_ID_code and ID_code_to_RNA_type functions.
* Update RNA_access.h with new RNA types.
Nice goodie: Preview renders!
- Added new preview.blend, allowing super wide cinemascope previews
- Draws nicely blended inside widget type, rounded corners
- Preview now renders using all available cpus/cores.
- Uses - hopefully rock stable - method, which doesn't copy or
allocate anything for previews, but just uses render API calls.
- Multiple previews are possible! But, added provision in Jobs
manager to only render one preview job at a time. If you start
more preview jobs, they're suspended until it's their turn.
Bugfix: new buttons context code crashed when going full-window.
Tweaks are still needed for notifiers. I have to figure out still
how to retrieve SpaceButs button view types...
Several usablity tweaks:
- Search menu allows ScrollWheel to view items
- Tooltip on button on bottom of window showed wrong
- Tooltips were popping up while draggin (MMB) or scrolling
(wheel). Now they stay away.
- Stolen from Gimp (blame venomgfx for hint!): ScrollWheel allows
to go over menu items and use number buttons, only on mouse-over.
Note for devs: the WM_event_add_mousemove() call (to add a fake
event to bring UI back alive after view changes) now works much
more reliably. It ensures the mouse move is only handled after all
notifiers/redraws were done.
Search menu:
- Made nicer drawing for popup version of search. It now uses
entire backdrop like pulldowns.
Search boxes for text buttons will use different style still;
if we use this option all over it shouldn't look too intrusive.
- Search menu allows scroll, to view all items. It doesn't cycle
anymore.
- Click outside search menu now cancels
- If a match is in search button, it highlights it. This also
allows ALT+CTRL+F - Enter to redo last op.
- Search popup draws higher when no no space below. No order
flipping!
Bugfix: Icons were drawing on wrong subpixel positions, distorting
badly. Now it's crispy and tasty!
Noticed there's a magnifier icon already, using it for the search
option.
* First step for buttons context browsing, read-only still.
* Drawn in a panel now, though this should become a separate region.
* Path of the context is constructed as an array of RNA pointers and
then used for drawing and context lookups from python.
Further work on new "text search" button.
- Now allows to browse items (mouse, arrow key)
- Assigns active value
- Uses different backdrop to distinguish from popup menus
- Cleaned API for it, so it can be used nicely generic
Also added a search menu, which shows all currently working
operators: CTRL+ALT+F. (mind the looks, it needs some tweaks!)
To make a menu activating a button I've added a new event...
could use some tweaks.
Important note: the callback to pass on "old string" for text
button (bone rename) couldn't work yet, added first code for new
callback, but has to be worked on further. When bone rename gets
added it can be tested.
* Make modifier and constraint templates use left/right alignment for
buttons in the header.
* Added mdef bind operator as an example of how to use local context
for a modifier, and add some code I forgot to commit last time to
make this system actually work.
Part one of new text button type: SEARCH_MENU
This opens a popup showing all matches for a typed string, nice
for object names, materials, operators, and so on.
Warning: Currently menu doesn't function yet! Only draws choices.
As test I've added an operator search button in top bar. It only
shows operators that can be used in this context now. Also that
is part of the WIP, tomorrow more fun :)
- Fix: text draw in fonts was slightly too low; it didn't calculate offset
correctly. Now it is aligned to have number characters in center.
- Fix: text clip was too wide, giving errors on extreme zoom in.
- Added boundbox-clipped default text drawing for view2d:
void UI_view2d_text_cache_rectf(View2D *v2d, rctf *rect, char *str)
(Note; also for previous commit, this cache immediately projects, so if
you change view2d while drawing, text is still on correct positions)
Added support for cached text drawing in View2D. Cache is needed to
prevent the viewmatrix being set/restored on each text drawing.
Adding a string:
void UI_view2d_text_cache_add(View2D *v2d, float x, float y, char *str)
Drawing:
void UI_view2d_text_cache_draw(ARegion *ar)
Nothing else needed; just make sure cache-draw is always called at end
of a view2d drawing function, to clear cache memory.
On todo for next: a version with a rectf boundary to clip text within.
Fix for Spin & Screw Mesh edit operators.
- now center and axis are RNA properties for operator
- axis is drawn as Normal button in properties buttons. Fun toy!
Added new widget type in drawing and themes: "Box Backdrop", which is
in use by modifiers. Allows alpha blend, shade, etc.
It was using the general button theme for standard buttons still, to
indicate this change I made it a bit darker. Matt/Bill are invited to
tweak this default color :)
* Wrapped the constraint layout to python and deleted the corresponding C code.
ToDo: 4 constraints are still C code (IK, Script, Action and Rigid Body Joint)
* Some Constraint RNA fixes.
* Wrapped the Shrinkwrap Constraint in RNA.
* Added some properties of uiLayout that can be set. I've added
some API code for more than the two I've implementeds, so
ignore those for now.
* layout.active = False will gray out buttons inside a layout.
* layout.enabled = False will gray out and completely disable
the buttons inside a layout.
* Also some function renames.
Added a system for adding a "local" context in a UI layout.
This way you can define for example within a modifier panel
all operators to get the modifier in the context.
In the layout code:
uiLayoutSetContextPointer(layout, "modifier", &ptr)
layout.set_context_pointer("modifier", md)
In the operator:
ptr = CTX_data_pointer_get(C, "modifier")
md = context.modifier
* Added Constraints template and Add Constraint operator.
* Added toggle=True/False parameter to uiItemR, to get a
toggle button (actual button) rather than an "option"
button (checkbox)
* Added OPTION/OPTIONN button type, to distinguish with
TOG/TOGN.
RNA:
* Make all modifier pointers editable, including correct updates.
* Added notifiers and updates to constraints.
* Fix a stack corruption, pointed out by Andrea, and potentially
causing crashes.
This includes a bunch of new object primitive icons
which would be great to get into the 'add object' menus,
they're not there yet. The specific lamp data type icons
are now used in the outliner though, which is very helpful.
- Added new popup menu type, which can be used to pass on a
running operator too. Needed it for debug menu, allowing to
set variables outside of operator "first do then tweak" system. :)
void uiPupBlockOperator()
Don't forget to tell invoke() return that operator now runs modal!
- Test menu: alt+ctrl+d gives the G.rt debug value.
Values of 0-16 now can be used to shrink areas, stuff like this
then happens (rt==4):
http://download.blender.org/institute/rt5.jpg
Was looking at ways to visually distinguish areas and regions
better. Yes I know, cute rounded corners, etc. Just testing!
Fix in sliders; didn't notice the left part messed up :)
Another slider draw method to explore would be like this:
(<| -------- |>)
Would make it symmetrical, and visually matching number
buttons better. (the "<" is background color triangle,
without circle around it).
Interface draw fixes:
- Red cursor for text edit widget was in wrong location
- Selection for text edit widget too
- Number slider text edit was too far too the left
- Number slider 'fill' was drawing outside boundaries.
(Matt: note I just interpolated rounding value :)
* template_modifier creates the modifier box, and returns a layout
to put the buttons in.
* Only the armature modifier is now done with python code, all other
modifiers use C code. To convert a modifier to python, remove the
corresponding C code and create a function in DATA_PT_modifiers.
* Some modifiers still require some RNA work to get it working well,
especially to make pointers editable. Mostly that is a matter of
defining an own _set callback and put some of the modifier C code
into it.
* Still various buttons that don't work, like for hooks or mesh
deform binding.
* Fix for crashing decimate modifier (still disabled).
* Removed UI_BUT_NO_HILITE, HMENU.
* Make uiLayoutBox work with align.
* Hide enable button in horizontal collapsed panels.
* Fix enable button not being in correct position when zooming.
* Fix n-key panels layout being messed up.
Node editor:
- Crash could occur on ALT+LMB remove link lines (read free'd mem)
- Button labels were handled as full buttons, disabling node usage
quite a lot, like drag, select, or create links.
(Caused by making all node labels buttons)
Brecht: old UI_NO_HILITE can be depricated, it was for bad overdraw
issues. I guess it's OK to not handle Label buttons at all...
Fixes:
- Render (F12) would choose the (hidden) info window in cases, disabled
that.
- Browsing ID's (like Image in Image editor) failed when no ID was
assigned yet.
Undid fix from matt to prevent tog button alignment, this is not
working that way... made UI look very bad (like layer buttons)
The new code has 'toggle' and 'option' button types, with the
latter being the new style, and first for icon rows, layers, etc.
Purpose is that RNA or py api would allow to distinguish.
- Made Normal (Sphere) button draw with nice AA
(check in node editor)
- Bugfix in alignment code, collumns were not drawing OK
- Picker buttons draw swatches again, and made them work.
* Added material "type" property, with Surface/Volume/Halo
options, compatible with sim_physics, as requested for
material buttons layout. Obviously the Volume setting
does nothing currently.
* Deprecated MA_HALO flag in favor of this.
