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
Fix T67008: Missing move handle and flickering in FileBrowser
Allow split regions (child regions) to contribute to the action zones (azone) of the parent region.
This fixes the issues in file browser and also in the user preferences.
Reviewers: Severin, mont29, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: Severin, mont29, campbellbarton
Subscribers: brecht, campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T67008
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5273
Currently if a panel becomes empty (draw simply returns), it stays
at the last non-empty height. This seems to be caused by some legacy
checks that may be completely obsolete, but the safest fix is to at
least allow resetting height when the panel is open.
Internally tool settings have been moved to the 3D view.
Added the ability for to draw panels from another space/region
so they can be mirrored in the properties editor.
This makes the properties editor navigation bar less saturated. Internally
the icon theme coloring was refactored a bit to move more towards the button
drawing code.
The main reason for this change is to allow setting the
active frame with the left mouse button, while still being
able to select e.g. keyframes with the same mouse button.
The solution is to introduce a new scrubbing region with
a specialized keymap. There are a couple of related todos,
that will be handled in separate commits.
Those are listed in D4654.
This solves T63193.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4654
Reviewers: brecht, billreynish
This was only used once, other checks were masking out
RGN_SPLIT_PREV which isn't future proof (if other flags are added).
Add RGN_ALIGN_ENUM_FROM_MASK macro, use it everywhere we need to
check the alignment enum.
This is a continuation of rB7fdffd735ff24, where I separated the
e.g. frame number drawing from scrollers internally.
This patch changes the API, so that space draw handlers
have to draw these numbers explicitely.
This greatly simplifies the scrollers API for all spaces
that just need scrollers without any frame numbers.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4747
Previously only a fixed bounding box could be used.
This was not flexible enough.
T63193 will benefit from this refactor.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton
- Resizable areas use 2D view bounds.
- Header uses the button bounds.
- A margin is added to avoid clicking between buttons.
- Region resize edges clamp to the 2D view bounds.
Resovles T61554
Each space had separate operators, duplicating logic.
Use RNA properties instead so adding the ability to toggle other
region types (floating redo region for eg) doesn't need to have an
extra operator per space type.
It's also nicer to show a check-box for something which can be toggled.
* It can be hidden by dragging it up/down.
* It can be at the top or bottom, independent of the header.
* It uses the color theme from the header.
* It does not change its color, when the area becomes active.
Currently, it is used in the text editor to display the file path.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4601
* When resizing sidebars, don't collapse when the region becomes too big but
instead clamp the region size to the available space.
* Fix clicking the tab to expand sidebars no working if the sidebar is too
wide to fit. Instead make it less wide so it does fit.
* Fix incorrect limit on tool properties region height, for example in the
file browser.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4611
Steps to reproduce were:
* Maximize area (Shift+Spacebar in 2.7, Ctrl+Spacebar in 2.8)
* Open temp file browser (Ctrl+O)
* Cancel file browser (Esc) - should return to previous full-screen
* Press "Return to Previous" button
The previously maximized area would turn into a file-browser.
Note that the issue will still happen when opening old files saved while
in maximized area full-screen.
When the line width was larger than the UI scale, there was not enough
space for thicker widget outlines to draw properly. Now widgets are made
a little larger to accommodate the thicker outlines.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4368
