UI: string properties cannot be edited via buttons (using alt key standard method) for multiple objects (e.g. lightgroups) #106591

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michael campbell · 2023-04-05T13:04:29+02:00

michael campbell commented

2023-04-05 13:04:29 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 526.98

Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.6.0 Alpha, branch: main, commit date: 2023-04-03 18:55, hash: 14b112ef825f
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Short description of error
alt key doesn't work on the lightgroup textbox, so can't assign multiple lights to a lightgroup using the usual hold alt key when clicking the textbox.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
create a light group and four lights, select all lights, go to the shading dropdown in the object properties:

alt click the text box
choose a light group

all other textboxes in blender would assign the same value to all selected objects. In this case you have to right click and choose copy to selected instead.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 526.98 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 3.6.0 Alpha, branch: main, commit date: 2023-04-03 18:55, hash: `14b112ef825f` Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected) **Short description of error** alt key doesn't work on the lightgroup textbox, so can't assign multiple lights to a lightgroup using the usual hold alt key when clicking the textbox. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** create a light group and four lights, select all lights, go to the shading dropdown in the object properties: ![image](/attachments/52e9624b-237c-47f3-bb70-29c9de525a95) alt click the text box choose a light group all other textboxes in blender would assign the same value to all selected objects. In this case you have to right click and choose copy to selected instead.

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Philipp Oeser commented

2023-04-05 14:39:44 +02:00

Can confirm, will check

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labels 2023-04-05 14:39:52 +02:00

Philipp Oeser commented

2023-04-05 16:25:50 +02:00

OK, this is because lightgroups are actually a string property (and these are not supported in ui_selectcontext_apply). No other string properties are working either because of this.

I have a patch locally that enables this, just needs a bit more testing (with this patch, all sorts of stuff gets "enabled" for multi-object buttons -- names included -- so this needs a bit of further testing before sending out to the wild...)

OK, this is because lightgroups are actually a string property (and these are not supported in `ui_selectcontext_apply`). No other string properties are working either because of this. I have a patch locally that enables this, just needs a bit more testing (with this patch, all sorts of stuff gets "enabled" for multi-object buttons -- names included -- so this needs a bit of further testing before sending out to the wild...)

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label 2023-04-05 16:26:17 +02:00

Philipp Oeser changed title from ~~alt key doesn't work on the lightgroup textbox, so can't assign multiple lights to a lightgroup using the standard method.~~ to UI: string properties cannot be edited via buttons (using alt key standard method) for multiple objects (e.g. lightgroups)

2023-04-05 16:28:54 +02:00

Philipp Oeser self-assigned this 2023-04-05 16:29:30 +02:00

michael campbell commented

2023-04-05 16:31:25 +02:00

legend 👍

Philipp Oeser referenced a pull request that will close this issue

2023-04-05 21:57:06 +02:00

UI: enable string properties for alt-click buttons for multiple objects #106599

Philipp Oeser referenced this issue from a commit

2023-04-11 10:28:03 +02:00

UI: enable string properties for alt-click buttons for multiple objects

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