Avoid creating new Python instances
every time a scene, object, mesh .. etc are accessed.
Also resolves crashes T28724, T53530
although it's only valid for ID types, not modifiers vertices etc.
Back-ported from blender2.8 branch.
Adds support for defining a number of tags as part of the rna-struct
definition, which its properties can set similar to property-flags.
BPY supports setting these tags when defining custom properties too.
* To define tags for a struct (which its properties can use then), define the tags in an `EnumPropertyItem` array, and assign them to the struct using `RNA_def_struct_property_tags(...)`.
* To set tags for an RNA-property in C, use the new `RNA_def_property_tags(...)`.
* To set tags for an RNA-property in Python, use the newly added tags parameter. E.g. `bpy.props.FloatProperty(name="Some Float", tags={'SOME_TAG', 'ANOTHER_TAG'})`.
It has been deprecated since at least macOS 10.9 and fully removed in 10.12.
I am unsure if we should remove it only in 2.8. But you cannot build blender with it supported when using a modern xcode version anyway so I would tend towards just removing it also for 2.79 if that ever happens.
Reviewers: mont29, dfelinto, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T52807
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2333
Operators and their properties are two different types
Previously both operators and their properties are added
causing C operators to access the properties, Python the classes.
Favor consistency in this case so only Python classes are added.
This was meant to be generic but introduced possible type errors
and unnecessary complication.
Replace with typed PyC_Tuple_PackArray_* functions.
Also add PyC_Tuple_Pack_* macro which replaces some uses of
Py_BuildValue, with the advantage of not having to parse a string.
The documentation for the bpy.app.handlers.scene_update_{pre,post}
handlers states that they're called "on updating the scenes data".
However, they're called even when the data hasn't changed. Of course
such handlers are useful, but the documentation should reflect the
current behaviour.
Reviewers: mont29, sergey
Subscribers: Blendify
Maniphest Tasks: T46329
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1535
Regression in D1812: PyDriver variables as Objects
Taking the Python representation is nice in general
but for enums it would convert them into strings,
breaking some existing drivers.
The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
The absence of datablock properties "will certainly be resolved soon as the need for them is becoming obvious" said the [[http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.67/Python_Nodes|Python Nodes release notes]]. So this patch allows Python scripts to create ID Properties which reference datablocks.
This functionality is implemented for `PointerProperty` and now such properties can be created with Python.
In addition to the standard update callback, `PointerProperty` can have a `poll` callback (standard RNA) which is useful for search menus. For details see the test included in this patch.
Original author: @artfunkel
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: brecht, artfunkel, mont29, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: mont29, campbellbarton
Subscribers: jta, sergey, campbellbarton, wisaac, poseidon4o, mont29, homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov, fjuhec, sharlybg, cardboard, duarteframos, blueprintrandom, a.romanov, BYOB, disnel, aditiapratama, bliblubli, dfelinto, lukastoenne
Maniphest Tasks: T37754
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D113
