This bug was caused by making it so that non-embossed modifier icon
buttons could become an operator button and retain their red highlight
for disabled modifiers. The icon button needs emboss turned off, but
in earlier versions of Blender, `UI_EMBOSS_NONE` would be overridden
by animation or red alert states.
Instead of abusing "NONE" to mean "none unless there is animation or
red alert", this commit adds a new emboss flag for that situation,
`UI_EMBOSS_NONE_OR_STATUS`, which uses no emboss unless there is an
animation state, or another status. There are only a few situations
where this is necessary, so the change isn't too big.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9902
The previous design is rather old and has a couple of problems:
* Scalability: The current solution of adding little icon buttons next to the
data-block name field doesn't scale well. It only works if there's a small
number of operations. We need to be able to place more items there for better
data-block management. Especially with the introduction of library overrides.
* Discoverability: It's not obvious what some of the icons do. They appear and
disappear, but it's not obvious why some are available at times and others
not.
* Unclear Status: Currently their library status (linked, indirectly linked,
broken link, library override) isn't really clear.
* Unusual behavior: Some of the icon buttons allow Shift or Ctrl clicking to
invoke alternative behaviors. This is not a usual pattern in Blender.
This patch does the following changes:
* Adds a menu to the right of the name button to access all kinds of operations
(create, delete, unlink, user management, library overrides, etc).
* Make good use of the "disabled hint" for tooltips, to explain why buttons are
disabled. The UI team wants to establish this as a good practise.
* Use superimposed icons for duplicate and unlink, rather than extra buttons
(uses less space, looks less distracting and is a nice + consistent design
language).
* Remove fake user and user count button, they are available from the menu now.
* Support tooltips for superimposed icons (committed mouse hover feedback to
master already).
* Slightly increase size of the name button - it was already a bit small
before, and the move from real buttons to superimposed icons reduces usable
space for the name itself.
* More clearly differentiate between duplicate and creating a new data-block.
The latter is only available in the menu.
* Display library status icon on the left (linked, missing library, overridden,
asset)
* Disables "Make Single User" button - in review we weren't sure if there are
good use-cases for it, so better to see if we can remove it.
Note that I do expect some aspects of this design to change still. I think some
changes are problematic, but others disagreed. I will open a feedback thread on
devtalk to see what others think.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8554
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
Design discussed and agreed on with the UI team, also see T79959.
For the Asset Browser, it needs to be possible to drag assets into various
editors, which may not come from the current .blend file. In other words, the
dragging needs to work with just the asset metadata, without direct access to
the data-block itself.
Idea is simple: When dragging an asset, store the source file-path and
data-block name and when dropping, append the data-block. It uses existing drop
operators, but the function to get the dropped data-block is replaced with one
that returns the local data-block, or, in case of an external asset, appends
the data-block first.
The drop operators need to be adjusted to use this new function that respects
assets. With this patch it only works for dragging assets into the 3D view.
Note that I expect this to be a short-lived change. A refactor like D4071 is
needed to make the drag & drop system more future proof for assets and other
use cases.
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9721
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel
This is similar to c4a2067130130d, but applies to the general UI and is only
about single data-blocks. Here there was a similar problem: How can buttons
pass the data they represent to operators? We currently resort to ugly ad-hoc
solutions like `UI_context_active_but_get_tab_ID()`. So the operator would need
to know that it is executed on a tab button that represents a data-block.
A single button can now hand operators a data-block to operate on. The operator
can request it via the "id" context member (`CTX_data_pointer_get_type(C, "id",
&RNA_ID)` in C, `bpy.context.id` in .py).
In this commit, it is already set in the following places:
* Generic RNA button code sets it to the pointed to data-block, if the button
represents a data-block RNA pointer property. (I.e for general data-block
search buttons.)
* Data-block selectors (`templateID`) set it to the currently active data-block.
* The material slot UI-List sets it for each slot to the material it represents.
The button context menu code is modified so its operators use the context set
for the layout of its parent button (i.e. `layout.context_pointer_set()`).
No user visible changes. This new design isn't actually used yet. It will be
soon for asset operators.
Reviewed as part of https://developer.blender.org/D9717.
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
Shared helper function to create a split layout with an alert icon for popup dialogs.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9486
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
These functions were not used elsewhere, and the handling for the panel
tabs should be kept local to this file where possible. Also remove
another unused function and removed an unecessary "_ex" function.
This patch implements panel expansion saving and resetting for property
search. While search is active, the panel expansion is based on whether
or not it has a search result. When the search finishes, the panel
expansion returns to its state before the search started. However, any
panels interacted with during the search won't reset their expansion.
This requires adding a new runtime flag for panels to store whether to
use search result status as expansion. It also requires better handling
for animation when panel expansion changes with another new runtime flag.
`UI_panel_is_closed` gets the search-dependent expansion, but it is
intentionally not used to access expansion in every case-- sometimes it's
necessary to use `PNL_CLOSED` directly.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8984
This patch enables property search for all tabs in the property editor.
To make interaction faster, if the editor's current tab doesn't have a
result, the current tab changes to the next tab that has a match.
This patch implements basic code that only searches panels.
While we could run the existing "single tab" property search for every
tab, that would also do everything else related to the layout pass,
which would be less efficient, and maybe more complicated to maintain.
The search match status for every current tab of the property editor is
stored in a runtime bitfield and them displayed later by dimming icons
in the tab selector panel to the left. Using `BLI_bitmap` properly in
the runtime struct required moving it to `buttons_intern.h` and
adding a small API to access the search filter instead.
To make sure the editor isn't influenced by anything that happens while
building the layout for other tabs, most of the context is duplicated
and the new search is run in the duplicated editor.
Note that the tool settings tab works slightly different than the other
tabs, so I've disabled searching it for this commit. That would be a
relatively simple improvement, but would just require a bit of
refactoring of existing code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8859
This adds arguments to `uiLayout.prop_tabs_enum` and the C equivalent
(`uiItemTabsEnumR_prop`) to gray out tabs based on a boolean array.
For property search in multiple tabs, we need a way to show which tabs
have a search result, but we still need to show which tab is active.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8858
Default text output routines (which do not specify a size) will now use Text Style point size.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9107
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
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
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.
The "UI_panel_set_expand_from_list_data" doesn't need to be in the
public API since it's just called every time an instanced panel is added.
This commit just sets the expansion automatically and adjusts some
naming to account for the moved function.
In the 3D view sidebar, the active tool settings panel can be pinned to other
categories, and in those other categories it doesn't redraw when the active
tool changes. This commit checks for pinned panels from the "Tool" category
when checking whether to redraw.
Note that the relatively expensive string comparison is only done for
currently visible pinned panels.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9012
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.
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
Add an option to only draw icons for operator_enum menus. This is used
for drawing inline icon buttons in the outliner context menu for
collection color tagging.
Part of T77408
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8880
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).
We do this in a couple of places, so it's worth having the logic wrapped
into a function.
Also, the only way to set the disabled hint for a button from outside of
`interface/` was through `UI_block_lock_set()`/`UI_block_lock_clear()`,
for which the usage isn't obvious when you just try to disable a single
button.
For modifier shortcuts we added a "custom_data" field to panels.
This commit uses the same system for accessing the list data that
corresponds to each panel. This way the context is only used once
and the modifier for each panel can be accessed more easily later.
This ends up being mostly a cleanup commit with a few small changes
in interface_panel.c. The large changes in the UI functions are due
to the fact that the panel custom data is now passed around as a
single pointer instead of being created again for every panel.
The list_index variable in Panel.runtime is removed as it's now
unnecessary.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8559
- Use WM_operatortype_description to get the operator description.
- Pass properties to WM_operatortype_name,
so the operator name callback is used.
- Add UI_but_operatortype_get_from_enum_menu function
to access the operator from enum menus.
- Change WM_operatortype_description to return NULL when there is no
description, use WM_operatortype_description_or_name
when either can be used.
Horizontal panel alignment hasn't been used for years, and we have no
plans to use it in the future. It adds a fair amount of complexity to
the panel code which makes adding features take longer.
This code removes the X closing flag, and all of the logic / variables
unused without it.
This commit includes a file subversion bump.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8601
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`/`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
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.
Regression from d6cefef98f
This also fixes an unreported issue where finding an exact match
wasn't being detected for items that contained an ID prefix.
Some code delt with panel merging in earlier versions of Blender,
which is no longer needed. Other code delt with controls that aren't
used anymore, and in some cases have region-level equivalents.
There's a surprising amount of this unused code in this file, so removing it
will be helpful for the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7938
I spotted a duplicate struct declaration, so I had to check for other duplicated as well
There might be some other but i am not confident enough for deleting them
this regex search for duplicate ^(.*;)$\n(\1)$
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8146
The shortcuts act on the modifier with its panel under the mouse.
The following shortcuts are enabled by default:
- Remove modifier: X, Delete
- Apply modifier: Ctrl A
- Duplicate modifier: Shift D
More shortcuts can be added in the keymap.
Each panel can now store a custom data RNA pointer, and a new
function is added to get the custom data for the panel under the
cursor. This custom data could be used to refactor the "List Panel
System" to generalize it and integrate it further with RNA.
The same functionality will be added in further commits where it
applies to constraints, grease pencil modifiers, and effects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8031
This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for grease pencil
shader effects. It also moves their drawing to a callback in
ShaderFxTypeInfo in line with the extensible architecture refactoring
goal T75724.
The implementation is basically exactly the same as for the modifier
patch (9b099c8612).
Thanks to Matias Mendiola (@mendio) for helping to develop the layout
changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7985
This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for grease pencil
modifiers. It also moves their drawing to a callback in
GpencilModifierTypeInfo in line with the extensible architecture
refactoring goal T75724.
This also adds the "set_error" function for grease pencil modifiers,
which hadn't been copied from mesh modifiers yet.
The implementation is basically exactly the same as for the modifier
patch (9b099c8612).
Thanks to Matias Mendiola (mendio) for providing mockups for many
of the layout changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7978
This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for constraints.
In this case the panels are still defined in Python.
The layouts are also updated to use subpanels and the a more organized
single column layout. There may be more tweaks necessary for the
layouts.
Reviewed By: Severin, billreynish, Mets
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7499
