[Bf-committers] TableGUI - BUI -- update 20140109

[hewi at jupama.org]

@Felipe Ferreira da Silva

Basically, all issues I have encountered so far with the Blender interface
are able to be resolved with the BUI.  I just need to find the time to
summerise them all and 'solve' them.  One example is "The grease pencil
tool" on the blender artists forum:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?323319-Grease-Pencil-Tool-Workflow
in reply to the developer thread: https://developer.blender.org/T37601

Thanks so much for the coding of the TableGUI, I tried to go through your
code but it is already a vast repository, just to align thoughts here: the
core idea of the BUI code is this

int main(int argc, const char **argv){

    run_BUI(argc, argv); /* which will give you the basic screen layout */

    plugin_Python(argc, argv); /* embed python for the interface functions
to draw all of the menus and buttons and ... */

    plugin_Blender(argc, argv);

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;

}

Is this something that will be possible to be implemented with your TableGUI?


@Arnaud: thanks for checking the TableGUI code

Because I want to base the BUI on Blenders Interface priciples and designs
(so yes the screen splitting functionality needs to be implemented), I
need to know how the Blender source is structured to establish this . This
means, unfortunatelly, traversing all the structs and enums and function
pointers and circular dependencies and #defines and all ... I am currently
@dna_screen_types.h->typedef struct ScrArea->char
spacetype->functionPointers->void (*free)(struct SpaceLink *); pffffff,
When the BUI is running, this knowledge will be handy anyway to be able to
plug blender in, but still, pffffff
next up: function pointers redeclaration

kindest regards

Hewi