WIP: UI: Operator to Save Custom Keymap #120043

Harley Acheson · 2024-03-29T01:18:01+01:00

Harley Acheson commented

2024-03-29 01:18:01 +01:00

An operator for saving custom keymaps. Include a poll to only enable
it when a custom keymap is selected. Shows a confirmation.

New keymap configurations can be easily created in Blender: Edit / Preferences / Keymap, Presets, "+" button. This prompts for a name and then creates a new keymap file in your profile.

However...

How do you update that custom keymap file after you make changes? Very unintuitively, you click on that "+" again, enter the name of your keymap (exactly), then click "OK". In a nutshell you create a new keymap with the same name and therefore overwrite the old file with the new.

This PR allows you to just click a "Save" button.

Disabled for built-in keymaps:

Enabled for custom keymaps:

Confirmation:

This is mostly here so that @JulianEisel and @HooglyBoogly can take a look at how this might not work well here like the equivalent can for Themes.

For example lets play with the first thing on the list, Window / New File, which is by default assigned to Ctrl-N.

Click the "+" and make new theme, call it "Test"
With "Test" the selected keymap, change "New File" to something like "F1"
Click the "Save" Button.
You now have a Test.py file in your profile, seems to contain everything in the "Window" section.
Change the preset to "Blender".
You see that "New File" is showing as F1 too. That's not right.
Click "Restore" and the Blender keymap is now showing Ctrl-N for "New File". So fixed.
Change to "Test" and see that is still showing F1 so everything seems fine now.

So you can get this to work, but there is that weird hiccup in the middle.

An operator for saving custom keymaps. Include a poll to only enable it when a custom keymap is selected. Shows a confirmation. --- New keymap configurations can be easily created in Blender: Edit / Preferences / Keymap, Presets, "+" button. This prompts for a name and then creates a new keymap file in your profile. However... How do you update that custom keymap file after you make changes? Very unintuitively, you click on that "+" again, enter the name of your keymap (exactly), then click "OK". In a nutshell you create a new keymap with the same name and therefore overwrite the old file with the new. This PR allows you to just click a "Save" button. Disabled for built-in keymaps: ![image](/attachments/e8d5dbd2-8498-4d2f-8c23-a68440e2a58f) Enabled for custom keymaps: ![image](/attachments/c22822b3-375e-4f9d-b6c1-14f8b1031153) Confirmation: ![image](/attachments/11c72dfd-83bb-4e7e-89dd-5270df2c1954) This is mostly here so that @JulianEisel and @HooglyBoogly can take a look at how this might not work well here like the equivalent can for Themes. For example lets play with the first thing on the list, Window / New File, which is by default assigned to Ctrl-N. * Click the "+" and make new theme, call it "Test" * With "Test" the selected keymap, change "New File" to something like "F1" * Click the "Save" Button. * You now have a Test.py file in your profile, seems to contain everything in the "Window" section. * Change the preset to "Blender". * You see that "New File" is showing as F1 too. That's not right. * Click "Restore" and the Blender keymap is now showing Ctrl-N for "New File". So fixed. * Change to "Test" and see that is still showing F1 so everything seems fine now. So you can get this to work, but there is that weird hiccup in the middle.

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Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2024-03-29 01:18:12 +01:00

8bcdcabfd9 WIP: UI: Operator to Save Custom Keymap

An operator for saving custom keymaps. Include a poll to only enable
it when a custom keymap is selected.

Harley Acheson added this to the User Interface project 2024-03-29 01:18:57 +01:00

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