* Remove difflib's quick_ratio() call, from quick tests looks it is four times slower than ratio(), and yet it gives the same results...
* Moved code to find all po's in a dir into its own func (will be used by i18n addon tools too).
As some people have already noticed, the "Add" menu for nodes is a bit messy since pynodes merge. The reason for this is that the order of nodes in submenus (categories) was previously defined by the order in which all nodes are registered (at the bottom of blenkernel/intern/node.c). For the dynamic registration of node types now possible this system of defining node order along with registration is no longer viable: while it would still sort of work for C nodes, it is completely meaningless for dynamic (python) nodes, which are basically registered automatically in whatever order modules and addons are loaded, with the added complexity of unloading and reloading.
To fix this problem and add a bunch of desirable features this commit replaces the C menu with a python implementation. The new menu does not rely on any particular order of types in the node registry, but instead uses a simple explicit list of all the available nodes, grouped by categories (in scripts/nodeitems_builtins.py).
There are a number of additional features that become possible with this implementation:
1) Node Toolbar can be populated!
The list of nodes is used to create 2 UI items for each node: 1 entry in a submenu of "Add" menu and 1 item in a node toolbar panel with basically the same functionality. Clicking a button in the toolbar will add a new node of this type, just like selecting an item in the menu. The toolbar has the advantage of having collapsible panels for each category, so users can decide if they don't need certain nodes categories and have the rest more easily accessible.
2) Each node item is a true operator call.
The old Add menu is a pretty old piece of C code which doesn't even use proper operator buttons. Now there is a generic node_add operator which can be used very flexibly for adding any of the available nodes.
3) Node Items support additional settings.
Each "NodeItem" consists of the basic node type plus an optional list of initial settings that shall be applied to a new instance. This gives additional flexibility for creating variants of the same node or for defining preferred initial settings. E.g. it has been requested to disable previews for all nodes except inputs, this would be simple change in the py code and much less intrusive than in C.
4) Node items can be generated with a function.
A callback can be used in any category instead of the fixed list, which generates a set of items based on the context (much like dynamic enum items in bpy.props). Originally this was implemented for group nodes, because these nodes only make sense when linked to a node tree from the library data. This principle could come in handy for a number of other nodes, e.g. Image nodes could provide a similar list of node variants based on images in the library - no need to first add node, then select an image.
WARNING: pynodes scripters will have to rework their "draw_add_menu" callback in node tree types, this has been removed now! It was already pretty redundant, since one can add draw functions to the Add menu just like for any other menu. In the future i'd like to improve the categories system further so scripters can use it for custom node systems too, for now just make a draw callback and attach it to the Add menu.
Also workaround a nasty bug, where unregistered py classes remain listed in relevant __subclasses__() calls, which would lead to crash with python addons i18n tools (main translation was not affected, as messages extracting tools are executed in a brand new "factory startup" Blender ;) ).
- add rna property 'as_bytes' method so you can get a string property as python bytes (bypass encoding).
- make bpy.path.abspath/relpath compatible with bytes.
- add 'relpath' option to bpy_extras.image_utils.load_image(), so you can load an image relative to a path.
PyNodes opens up the node system in Blender to scripters and adds a number of UI-level improvements.
=== Dynamic node type registration ===
Node types can now be added at runtime, using the RNA registration mechanism from python. This enables addons such as render engines to create a complete user interface with nodes.
Examples of how such nodes can be defined can be found in my personal wiki docs atm [1] and as a script template in release/scripts/templates_py/custom_nodes.py [2].
=== Node group improvements ===
Each node editor now has a tree history of edited node groups, which allows opening and editing nested node groups. The node editor also supports pinning now, so that different spaces can be used to edit different node groups simultaneously. For more ramblings and rationale see (really old) blog post on code.blender.org [3].
The interface of node groups has been overhauled. Sockets of a node group are no longer displayed in columns on either side, but instead special input/output nodes are used to mirror group sockets inside a node tree. This solves the problem of long node lines in groups and allows more adaptable node layout. Internal sockets can be exposed from a group by either connecting to the extension sockets in input/output nodes (shown as empty circle) or by adding sockets from the node property bar in the "Interface" panel. Further details such as the socket name can also be changed there.
[1] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Phonybone/Python_Nodes
[2] http://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/blender/release/scripts/templates_py/custom_nodes.py?view=markup&root=bf-blender
[3] http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/01/improving-node-group-interface-editing/
We have a glicth with colormanagement's spaces descriptions, though, looks like they are clamped at 64 chars (see raw space), will see that later, if it’s solvable.
Fix for keyingsets tips, and make them (and a few others) findable by i18n messages extracting code (for some reasons, their bl_rna.description are void???).
Most notable difference from now on will be that all py is handled from current blender's resource dirs, no more from source dir. Better for consistency, and avoid e.g. cycles' addon to be checked twice...
in fact the keymap editor was missing other keymaps so added these too,
also updated keymap checker to make sure there is no mismatch with region/space types.
Notes:
* Everything is still a bit raw and sometimes hackish.
* Not every feature implemented yet.
* A bunch of cleanup is still needed.
* Doc needs to be updated too!
Also enhanced the ugly py ast parsing code, so that it now can handle (up to some extent) "name" function nodes, and add bpy.app.translations.pgettext func familly to extracted ones...
This ast py parsing becomes more and more ugly, should probably try to refactor it a bit. :/
Also generate rigid body constraint types in py bullet code from RNA enum values (simpler than having to sync the code when something is changed here!).
Side note: RNA API about icons still needs to expose icons for enum values, and conversion funcs between icon_name and icon_value!
For python operators that used the ExportHelper mix-in class, an empty file field would become '.ext', entering and existing the text field would become '.ext.ext',
Now only add an extension if the filename part of the path is set, so '.ext' will still become '.ext.ext' but having only the extension isn't so likely to happen in the first place now.
This is a different fix then the changes suggested in the report but I'd prefer to keep path functions stupid+predictable.
* handle nicely multiple empty lines in po files (still have to figure out why po writer sometime output two lines instead of one!)
* fix rtl processing!
Notes:
* Most tools here have been updated, only a few (unused :p ) features should be missing. But some updates are rough for now, and performances are globally worse currently, will address this later (this is only really noticeable when you work over the whole repo, anyway ;) ).
* This update breaks "edit translations" addon, will fix it later, once core (i.e. this module) is considered stable again!
- bpy.path.extensions_image
- bpy.path.extensions_movie
- bpy.path.extensions_audio
eg:
if os.path.splitext(filename)[1].lower() in bpy.path.extensions_image:
... we have an image ...
- add sequence.update(data=False) function.
- made some sequence vars editable.
- correct some comments.
also rename rna function sequence.getStripElem() --> strip_elem_from_frame()
bake_action tries to make kind of a 'visual keying'... On one side, this is rather stupid when you keep constraints (in this case, keying actual loc/rot/scale transforms, i.e. matrix_basis, is enough, doing more would lead to unexpected behavior with some constraints). On the other one, making a good visual keying of bones is *really* tricky, so now using the new object's convert_space() func to compute that (when the user chooses to remove the constraints).
Incidentally, this greatly simplifies the code of bake_action!
It introduces a new (py-extendable and registrable) RNA type, UIList (roughly similar to Panel one), which currently contains only "standard" list's scroll pos and size (but may be expended to include e.g. some filtering data, etc.). This now makes lists completely independent from Panels!
This UIList has a draw_item callback which allows to customize items' drawing from python, that all addons can now use. Incidentally, this also greatly simplifies the C code of this widget, as we do not code any "special case" here anymore!
To make all this work, other changes were also necessary:
* Now all buttons (uiBut struct) have a 'custom_data' void pointer, used currently to store the uiList struct associated with a given uiLayoutListBox.
* DynamicPaintSurface now exposes a new bool, use_color_preview (readonly), saying whether that surface has some 3D view preview data or not.
* UILayout class has now four new (static) functions, to get the actual icon of any RNA object (important e.g. with materials or textures), and to get an enum item's UI name, description and icon.
* UILayout's label() func now takes an optional 'icon_value' integer parameter, which if not zero will override the 'icon' one (mandatory to use "custom" icons as generated for material/texture/... previews).
Note: not sure whether we should add that one to all UILayout's prop funcs?
Note: will update addons using template list asap.
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2012-December/038555.html
Note: NodeTree and Node currently use standard python classes generated by bpy for now. The customnodes branch defines such classes as well, with specialized metaclasses for use with ID properties. Not needed in trunk yet.
Since the window manager is needed for keymaps this is kept as an exception.
some addons will need updating, but in every case I've seen addons should not be accessing the context while registering.
(bad stuff! - declaring the scene as a global variable - which crashes when the users loads a new file, manipulating the active object or scene... tsk tsk)
