[Bf-python] Remote IPython & PyCrust Shell for Blender

[Willian Padovani Germano]

Hi Stani,

Stani wrote:
(...)
> I am working on some new features for SPE, which is an open-source,
> cross-platform python IDE for Blender:
> http://pythonide.stani.be
(...)
> However for normal Blender modeling (not Game Engine) I was wondering
> which scriptlink I could use without blocking the user interface of
> Blender. Is there some sort of timer event/scriptlink? Or is there a
> better way to do this?

Right now afaik there's no out of the box solution. No timer event 
scriptlink yet, neither one for communication between processes, Verse 
is not finished, etc. It shouldn't be hard to add a scriptlink for this 
(for one system, making it work for all platforms might take more help), 
only depends on finding a dev with interest and time to code it.

Also, maybe threading can help. This occurred to me when I started 
making bpython "thread-safe" a few weeks ago: we could add a new 
function or make Blender.Run() support running the script in a separate 
thread and this script could for example keep checking if an external 
app has sent data to Blender. Didn't test it yet, though, will try to 
play with it this week.

-- 
Willian