Adds a check when starting blender if your platform is supported. We use a blacklist
as drivers are updated more regular then blender (stable releases).
The mechanism detects if the support level changed or has been validated by the user previously.
Changes can happen due to users updating their drivers, but also when we change the support
level in our code base.
When the user has seen the limited support level message it is saved in the user config.
It would be better to have a system specific config section, but currently not clear
what could benefit from that.
When the platform is unsupported or has limited support a dialog box will appear including a link
to our user manual describing what to do.
**Windows**
Windows uses the MessageBox that is provided by the windows kernel.
**X11**
We use a very lowlevel messagebox for X11. It is very limited in use and can be fine tuned when needed.
**SDL/APPLE**
There is no implementation for SDL or APPLE at this moment as the platform support feature targets mostly Windows users.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5955
For many users, this will make the File Browser window behave more like
what they would expect. It addresses the issue of the File Browser
becoming hidden behind the main window by clicking anywhere in the
latter. It communicates the interruptive, but temporary nature of the
operation a bit better.
Further, on tiling window managers the File Browser now opens as
floating by default, like in other applications.
Note that this also makes sure the File Browser is always opened as
separate window, so it doesn't re-use the Preferences, or any other
temporary window anymore. This seems to have been a common annoyance.
More concretely, this makes the File Browser window behave as follows:
* Stays on top of its parent Blender window, but not on top of
non-Blender windows.
* Minimizes with its parent window
* Can be moved independently
* Doesn't add an own item in task bars
* Doesn't block other Blender windows (we may want to have this though)
* Opens as floating window for tiling window managers (e.g. i3wm/Sway)
Further notes:
* When opening a file browser from the Preference window (or any
temporary window), the main window, as the file browsers parent is
moved on top of the Preferences, which makes it seem like the
Preferences were closed. This is the general issue of bad secondary
window handling as window activation changes. I made it so that the
window is moved back once the file browser is closed.
This behavior is confusing and would be nice to avoid. It's a separate
issue though.
* On most window managers on Linux the temporary window can not be
minimized and maximized, they disable that for dialog windows.
* On Windows and macOS, only minimizing is disabled, as there is no
decent way yet to restore a window if it's not shown in the taskbar.
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel, Campbell Barton, William Reynish
Edits and macOS implementation by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5810
Part of T69652.
This adds the same high quality cursors on macOS as we have on Windows.
These are stored as 32*32 pt PDFs, same as the built-in OS cursors
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5907
* Add more standard cursor types, that platforms can optionally support.
* Remove a few unused cursor types that were not properly supported and
would show the wrong cursor when used.
* Add native cursor files for Windows. These scale well with DPI and have
anti-aliasing. Designed by Duarte Farrajota Ramos.
Ref D5197
Most of these calls were replaced with the successors as suggested
by Xcode's Fix-It. Functionality should not be affected.
This reduces the number of warnings when building on macOS.
The issue is that wayland seems to impose a generic device naming scheme
when using Xwayland For example any table stylus will show up with the
following naming convention: xwayland-stylus:33
For this to work in blender, I had to modify how the identifier string
is extracted. I also renamed the two char pointers in the search
algorithm to be more logical.
Reviewed By: Brecht
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D5401
On GPUs that support it, we now present OpenGL contents via CAMetalLayer. This
fixes frame skipping issues found in T60043. If the system does not have a Metal
capable GPU, NSOpenGLView will continue to be used.
Patch by Tomoaki Kawada, with some changes by Brecht Van Lommel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4619
The same was done for Windows, but some extra changes were needed to make it
work on macOS. This is required because the Blender quit dialog now contains
additional settings for image saving.
Viewport drawing has moved to offscreen buffers, and we no longer need to have
depth, stencil, aa samples, sRGB buffers as part of the window. So all that
code is removed now. The depth buffer was the only one still being allocated,
its removal save a bit of memory.
Code by Germano and Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4708
