Based on work by Bastien and Brecht in the Node Editor, this adds more
generalized support for selecting items so that click+drag actions on
items (nodes, makers, dopesheet keys, etc.) works as wanted.
Note that this only adds the barebones to support this in other editors,
it's not used yet (will be done in followup commits).
The behavior is supposed to work as follows:
* Clicking an unselected item immediately selects it, and deselects
other items (doesn't wait for release events).
* Click+drag on an unselected item immediately selects it, deselects
others and drags it in one go (don't require selecting it first!).
* Click+drag on a selected item won't change the selection state (and
won't send an undo push) and start dragging all selected items as soon
as the drag event is recognized.
* Clicking on a selected item will still deselect others, but that will
only happen on mouse release, when we know the intention is not to drag
the item.
Included in: https://developer.blender.org/D5979
Reviewed by: Brecht van Lommel, William Reynish
For many users, this will make the File Browser window behave more like
what they would expect. It addresses the issue of the File Browser
becoming hidden behind the main window by clicking anywhere in the
latter. It communicates the interruptive, but temporary nature of the
operation a bit better.
Further, on tiling window managers the File Browser now opens as
floating by default, like in other applications.
Note that this also makes sure the File Browser is always opened as
separate window, so it doesn't re-use the Preferences, or any other
temporary window anymore. This seems to have been a common annoyance.
More concretely, this makes the File Browser window behave as follows:
* Stays on top of its parent Blender window, but not on top of
non-Blender windows.
* Minimizes with its parent window
* Can be moved independently
* Doesn't add an own item in task bars
* Doesn't block other Blender windows (we may want to have this though)
* Opens as floating window for tiling window managers (e.g. i3wm/Sway)
Further notes:
* When opening a file browser from the Preference window (or any
temporary window), the main window, as the file browsers parent is
moved on top of the Preferences, which makes it seem like the
Preferences were closed. This is the general issue of bad secondary
window handling as window activation changes. I made it so that the
window is moved back once the file browser is closed.
This behavior is confusing and would be nice to avoid. It's a separate
issue though.
* On most window managers on Linux the temporary window can not be
minimized and maximized, they disable that for dialog windows.
* On Windows and macOS, only minimizing is disabled, as there is no
decent way yet to restore a window if it's not shown in the taskbar.
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel, Campbell Barton, William Reynish
Edits and macOS implementation by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5810
Part of T69652.
Blender UI Layout API allows supplying parameters to operators via
button definitions. If an operator behavior strongly depends on its
parameters, it may be difficult to write a tooltip that covers all
of its operation modes. Thus it is useful to provide a way for the
operator to produce different descriptions based on the input info.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5709
This is a general redesign of the File Browser GUI and interaction
methods. For screenshots, check patch D5601.
Main changes in short:
* File Browser as floating window
* New layout of regions
* Popovers for view and filter options
* Vertical list view with interactive column header
* New and updated icons
* Keymap consistency fixes
* Many tweaks and fixes to the drawing of views
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General:
* The file browser now opens as temporary floating window. It closes on
Esc. The header is hidden then.
* When the file browser is opened as regular editor, the header remains
visible.
* All file browser regions are now defined in Python (the button
layout).
* Adjusted related operator UI names.
Keymap:
Keymap is now consistent with other list-based views in Blender, such as
the Outliner.
* Left click to select, double-click to open
* Right-click context menus
* Shift-click to fill selection
* Ctrl-click to extend selection
Operator options:
These previously overlapped with the source list, which caused numerous
issues with resizing and presenting many settings in a small panel area.
It was also generally inconsistent with Blender.
* Moved to new sidebar, which can easily be shown or hidden using a
prominent Options toggle.
* IO operators have new layouts to match this new sidebar, using
sub-panels. This will have to be committed separately (Add-on
repository).
* If operators want to show the options by default, they have the option
to do so (see `WM_FILESEL_SHOW_PROPS`, `hide_props_region`), otherwise
they are hidden by default.
General Layout:
The layout has been changed to be simpler, more standard, and fits
better in with Blender 2.8.
* More conventional layout (file path at top, file name at the bottom,
execute/cancel buttons in bottom right).
* Use of popovers to group controls, and allow for more descriptive
naming.
* Search box is always live now, just like Outliner.
Views:
* Date Modified column combines both date and time, also uses user
friendly strings for recent dates (i.e. "Yesterday", "Today").
* Details columns (file size, modification date/time) are now toggleable
for all display types, they are not hardcoded per display type.
* File sizes now show as B, KB, MB, ... rather than B, KiB, MiB, … They
are now also calculated using base 10 of course.
* Option to sort in inverse order.
Vertical List View:
* This view now used a much simpler single vertical list with columns
for information.
* Users can click on the headers of these columns to order by that
category, and click again to reverse the ordering.
Icons:
* Updated icons by Jendrzych, with better centering.
* Files and folders have new icons in Icon view.
* Both files and folders have reworked superimposed icons that show
users the file/folder type.
* 3D file documents correctly use the 3d file icon, which was unused
previously.
* Workspaces now show their icon on Link/Append - also when listed in
the Outliner.
Minor Python-API breakage:
* `bpy.types.FileSelectParams.display_type`: `LIST_SHORT` and
`LIST_LONG` are replaced by `LIST_VERTICAL` and `LIST_HORIZONTAL`.
Removes the feature where directories would automatically be created if
they are entered into the file path text button, but don't exist. We
were not sure if users use it enough to keep it. We can definitely bring
it back.
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//Combined effort by @billreynish, @harley, @jendrzych, my university
colleague Brian Meisenheimer and myself.//
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5601
Reviewers: Brecht, Bastien
This fixes crashes, wrong names and inability to append workspaces in
edit mode. We now bypass the append operator so we can easily return
a datablock pointer and work in any mode.
This adds a new dialog that is shown whenever a file is closed.
So, either when a new file is opened, or when Blender quits.
The dialog allows to save unsaved changes. Furthermore it also
allows saving images that have been modified in Blender, but are
not saved yet.
Known limitations:
* Images that have no file path and have not been packed before,
are not saved.
* On MacOS the old dialog is shown when Blender quits.
Reviewers: brecht, billreynish
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4860
We need to make those paths validation async, since some infamous OS is
unable to provide a quick way to check whether a path is valid or not...
Not much to say here, this is basic wmJob stuff really... We don’t even
need complex threaded coordination locks or atomics, given how simple
the changes are here.
Fake-tested with some `sleep()` calls to add atificial delay, seems to
work as expected.
The complexity in this patch comes from the fact
that the current operator system does not support
multi-step user interactions well.
More specifically, for this to work, we need to show
a confirm dialog and a file browser afterwards.
We decided that it is easier to keep everything in
a single operator, instead of creating separate
operators that invoke each other.
So, now the `WM_OT_open_mainfile` operator invokes
itself in different states. It implements a simple
finite state machine to manage the states.
The dialog itself is expected to be improved in
a future commit. See D4829 for more details.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4829
Previously only a fixed bounding box could be used.
This was not flexible enough.
T63193 will benefit from this refactor.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton
Add back the ability to choose the select operation for random select.
Now we allow the operator to specify if the select operation should be
visible in the GUI or not.
Reviewed By: Brecht
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D4665
Add getter callback support for 'WM_HANDLER_TYPE_KEYMAP' type handlers
this is needed for key-maps which change based on the active tool.
Replaces 'sneaky_handler' hack which temporarily inserted a handler.
This feature is intended only for testing,
to automate simulating user input.
- Enabled by '--enable-event-simulate'.
- Disables handling all real input events.
- Access by calling `Window.event_simulate(..)`
- Disabling `bpy.app.use_event_simulate`
to allow handling real events (can only disable).
Currently only mouse & keyboard events work well,
NDOF, IME... etc could be added as needed.
See D4286 for example usage.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
This reverts commit 1d908bffdd.
Enough uses of repeat last expect skip-save properties to be set,
transform being the most obvious example T60777#605681.
I wanted to avoid operators having account for two kinds of 'skip-save'
but this may be unavoidable.
