[Bf-committers] transform() and particles!

[Matthew H. Plough]

Hi everybody --

I just started playing around with the excellent particle deflection 
tools.  I noticed something that annoyed me quite a bit, though -- I get 
angry when canceling an operation takes a ridiculously long time. 

Here's the issue: Let's say that I select my particle emitter with a 
huge number of particles to edit the particle system.  I inadvertently 
press G or some other key, and start moving the thing around.  
Instinctively, I hit Escape a bunch of times to cancel the operation.  
However, up comes the timeglass cursor, indicating that it's time to 
ponder what, if anything, happened with the particle system.  I don't 
want to wait for the system to do absolutely nothing.  3d studio max 
does that frequently, which drove me up the wall.  Having Blender do the 
same thing would make me go bonkers.

...and now my solution:  It seems that special_aftertrans_update (in 
editobject.c) doesn't bother to check if an operation has been 
canceled.  It only checks to see if a mesh has a particle system 
associated with it, and if it does, it recalculates.  Adding about 15 
bytes of code to check if the operation was canceled fixes the problem. 

The patch is attached.

Matt
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Index: source/blender/src/editobject.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/bf-blender/blender/source/blender/src/editobject.c,v
retrieving revision 1.156
diff -u -r1.156 editobject.c
--- source/blender/src/editobject.c	29 Dec 2004 20:44:54 -0000	1.156
+++ source/blender/src/editobject.c	8 Jan 2005 01:15:38 -0000
@@ -4429,7 +4429,7 @@
 					mb= ob->data;
 					if(mb->flag != MB_UPDATE_ALWAYS || G.obedit == NULL) makeDispList(ob);
 				}
-				if( give_parteff(ob) ) build_particle_system(ob);
+				if( give_parteff(ob) && !canceled) build_particle_system(ob);
 			}
 			if(base->flag & BA_DO_IPO) redrawipo= 1;