Note: Linking in this case as in link vs. append. Easily confused with linking
a data-block to multiple usages (e.g. single material used by multiple
objects).
Adds a drop-down to the Asset Browser header to choose between Link and Append.
This is probably gonna be a temporary place, T54642 shows where this could be
placed eventually.
Linking support is crucial for usage of the asset browser in production
environments. It just wasn't enabled yet because a) the asset project currently
focuses on single user, not production assets, and b) because there were many
unkowns still for the workflow that have big impact on production use as well.
With the recently held asset workshop I'm more confident with enabling linking,
as design ideas relevant to production use were confirmed.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11536
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
In some cases functions were defined with arguments of different array
lengths in headers vs. implementations. This commit fixes some of the
cases I ran into, but probably not all of them.
Increase range of internal flags & order UI_SEARCH_FILTER_NO_MATCH
within this range, so public button flags aren't accidentally added
that overlap with internal flags.
The problem is that each uiBlock needs to be assigned a unique name,
but when there can be multiple modifiers of the same type, we use the
panel sort order for the unique part of the string. However, the most
recent test file has 1200+ panels in the property editor, so 4
characters isn't enough for a unique string.
That's not a situation I expected, but it makes sense, because we don't
remove legacy panels with unused types when loading old files. So they
tend to accumulate a bunch of unused panels. That's why this works fine
with a new property editor, it doesn't all of the extra old panels.
These panels must be stored for the expansion status and order, but
arguably we could cull unused panels on save. However, simply increasing
the length of the unique panel string is a valid fix in this situation.
In the future, we can look into removing unused panels when saving.
This patch adds domain and data type information to each row of the
attribute search menu. The data type is displayed on the right, just
like how the list is exposed for the existing point cloud and hair
attribute panels. The domain is exposed on the left like the menu
hierarchy from menu search.
For the implementation, the attribute hint information is stored as a
set instead of a multi-value map so that every item (which we need to
point to descretely in the search process) contains the necessary data
type and domain information by itself. We also need to allocate a new
struct for every button, which requires a change to allow passing a
newly allocated argument to search buttons.
Note that the search does't yet handle the case where there are two
attributes with the same name but different domains or data types in
the input geometry set. That will be handled as a separate improvement.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10623
In the current implementation, cryptomatte passes are connected to the node
and elements are picked by using the eyedropper tool on a special pick channel.
This design has two disadvantages - both connecting all passes individually
and always having to switch to the picker channel are tedious.
With the new design, the user selects the RenderLayer or Image from which the
Cryptomatte layers are directly loaded (the type of pass is determined by an
enum). This allows the node to automatically detect all relevant passes.
Then, when using the eyedropper tool, the operator looks up the selected
coordinates from the picked Image, Node backdrop or Clip and reads the picked
object directly from the Renderlayer/Image, therefore allowing to pick in any
context (e.g. by clicking on the Combined pass in the Image Viewer). The
sampled color is looked up in the metadata and the actual name is stored
in the cryptomatte node. This also allows to remove a hash by just removing
the name from the matte id.
Technically there is some loss of flexibility because the Cryptomatte pass
inputs can no longer be connected to other nodes, but since any compositing
done on them is likely to break the Cryptomatte system anyways, this isn't
really a concern in practise.
In the future, this would also allow to automatically translate values to names
by looking up the value in the associated metadata of the input, or to get a
better visualization of overlapping areas in the Pick output since we could
blend colors now that the output doesn't have to contain the exact value.
Idea + Original patch: Lucas Stockner
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3959
I landed D10527 in rB1a8aee0a7cec accidentally, and the version there was
missing a name change discussed in review. This commit just renames the
boolean variable controlling the special behavior for attribute search.
Original message meant for this change:
For geometry nodes we will use search buttons to display a list of
attributes available the last time the node tree was executed (D10519).
Because this list is just a hint, we need to be able to enter any string,
not just strings from the search items.
This patch adds a boolean option to string buttons to enable this.
The change is quite simple, changes to behavior are only required in
two places. The type-specific button struct changes help a lot here.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10527
Currently when you open an RNA collection search button, like a
vertex group selector, the search filter isn't applied until you
start typing, in order to display every option at the start.
Otherwise they wouldn't be visible, since the search filter would
run for the current text.
Currently this check happens in one place, but it relies on the
`changed` value of `uiBut`. This is fine in the interface directory,
but anywhere else it would require exposing `uiBut.changed`, which
is probably too low-level to expose.
The solution is adding an `is_first` argument to the search callbacks,
which is nice for a few reasons:
- They work at a higher level of abstraction, meaning they don't
have to worry about how exactly to tell if this is the first
search.
- It makes it easier to do special behavior when the search menu
is first opened.
- Then, obviously, it makes that state accessible without including
`interface_intern.h`.
Needed for attribute search: T85658
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10528
The "quick setup" dialog is actually a 'menu', and the "splash screen" block
contains the UI_BLOCK_LOOP flag which causes the buttons' text to align
to the left, however, usually regular buttons have centered text.
As a workaround, add the UI_BLOCK_QUICK_SETUP flag which prevents
the text from being left-aligned.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10486
Reviewed by: Julian Eisel
E.g. steps to reproduce:
* Enter Vertex Paint mode
* In the tool settings, right-click > "Edit Source"
When creating a number slider via `layout.prop(..., slider=True)`, the UI code
would reallocate the number button to be a number-slider button. That's because
we now actually have different button data-structures for these (see
e6f0b60c2e). The edit source code stored data based on the button pointers,
which didn't get updated after changing the type. The fix just adds this
updating.
Long data-block names are clipped to fit into data-block selector menus. For
linked data-blocks, there's also a hint indicating the source library, which
takes further space and may get clipped too.
So this commit adds a tooltip to the menu items, which displays the full,
unclipped data-block name and the unclipped library name. Plus, the library
path is shown too, which is also useful info.
Adds helper functions for search menu item tooltips, so these are easier to add
to other search menus in future.
Part of T84188.
Passing 4x arguments for the rectangle,
mixed in with round-box radius & color wasn't very readable.
Instead, pass a `rctf` as the first argument to UI box drawing functions.
The new GPU_SHADER_2D_WIDGET_BASE shader allows us to draw
many complex shapes with anti-aliasing.
One thing it can do is draw an opaque rounded rectangle with colors
that differ between its interior and outline.
In order to do the above in a single pass I recently added an "_ex"
version of UI_draw_roundbox that exposes most of that shaders features.
This simplifies interface_draw.c by removing redundancy in the calling
of this shader by using this new uber "_ex" version.
Ref D10189
Simplification and changes to the Navigation gizmo. Better indication of negative axes, consistent use of color and size to indicate orientation, ability to be resized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9744
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
Partially reverts 2250b5cefe.
Removing the user count and fake user count icons was controversial (which was
expected) and there are a few further changes needed, that won't make it in
time for the release, see D9946.
While there is a design to bring back the user count and fake user indicators,
a new design idea was proposed that the UI team wants to follow. This came too
late for the 2.92 release, the new design is targeted at the 2.93 release now.
Meanwhile, UI team decision was to simply revert the design changes.
The new design is being worked on in https://developer.blender.org/T84669.
Note that this commit does not revert some internal changes done in
2250b5cefe. Namely the introduction of `ed_util_ops.c` and data-block
operators in there. These will still be needed in the new design.
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
