Preference Defaults "Relative Paths" tooltip could be improved #86209

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Luciano Muñoz Sessarego · 2021-03-02T21:55:49+01:00

2021-03-02 21:55:49 +01:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 460.89

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.93.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2021-02-25 05:34, hash: blender/blender@0e1c6a29cb
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Short description of error
The "Relative Paths" setting in the preferences is ignored by the File Output having to manually click it every time.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Open a new scene
In preferences check "relative paths"

go to output

you'll see relative paths option is still disabled

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 460.89 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 2.93.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2021-02-25 05:34, hash: `blender/blender@0e1c6a29cb` Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected) **Short description of error** The "Relative Paths" setting in the preferences is ignored by the File Output having to manually click it every time. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Open a new scene In preferences check "relative paths" ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F9861049/image.png) go to output ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F9861051/image.png) you'll see relative paths option is still disabled ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F9861054/image.png)

Luciano Muñoz Sessarego commented

2021-03-02 21:55:49 +01:00

Added subscriber: @LucianoMunoz

Philipp Oeser commented

2021-03-03 00:45:40 +01:00

Added subscriber: @lichtwerk

Philipp Oeser self-assigned this 2021-03-03 00:45:40 +01:00

Philipp Oeser commented

2021-03-03 00:45:40 +01:00

Will check

Philipp Oeser commented

2021-03-03 09:53:11 +01:00

Well, this seems to be expected behavior actually.

This is how it goes:

if the path in the field is already absolute, it will switch the Relative Path setting OFF no matter what the User Preference was
if the path in the field is already relative, it will switch the Relative Path setting ON no matter what the User Preference was
if the path in the field is blank or this is just some operation where no path is specified to begin with, the User Preference will be used

So basically it will detect absolute/relative state and keep it.

related: blender/blender@adab35ba02

Thinking about it, this makes sense to me.
Maybe we can tweak the tooltip though to make this a bit more obvious

Well, this seems to be expected behavior actually. This is how it goes: - if the path in the field is already absolute, it will switch the `Relative Path` setting OFF no matter what the User Preference was - if the path in the field is already relative, it will switch the `Relative Path` setting ON no matter what the User Preference was - if the path in the field is blank or this is just some operation where no path is specified to begin with, the User Preference will be used So basically it will detect absolute/relative state and keep it. related: blender/blender@adab35ba02 Thinking about it, this makes sense to me. Maybe we can tweak the tooltip though to make this a bit more obvious

Philipp Oeser changed title from ~~"Relative Paths" in setting ignored by Output of files tab.~~ to Preference Defaults "Relative Paths" tooltip could be improved

2021-03-03 16:38:17 +01:00

Philipp Oeser commented

2021-03-03 16:38:17 +01:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Confirmed'

Bastien Montagne commented

2021-03-04 12:19:16 +01:00

Added subscriber: @mont29

Bastien Montagne commented

2021-03-04 12:19:16 +01:00

This is not core at all, more like UI... Anyway, will update the tooltip to "Default relative path option for the file selector, when no path is defined yet", and tweak the manual.

This is not core at all, more like UI... Anyway, will update the tooltip to `"Default relative path option for the file selector, when no path is defined yet"`, and tweak the manual.

blender-admin commented

2021-03-04 12:20:10 +01:00

This issue was referenced by blender/blender@bda95ac0f9

This issue was referenced by blender/blender@bda95ac0f94d7df787d720f7176a573c7faa370b

Bastien Montagne commented

2021-03-04 12:21:13 +01:00

Changed status from 'Confirmed' to: 'Resolved'

Bastien Montagne closed this issue

2021-03-04 12:21:13 +01:00

Philipp Oeser commented

2021-03-04 12:29:58 +01:00

thx @mont29 !