[Bf-committers] User-defined Material Properties

[Willian Padovani Germano]

Greg MacDonald wrote:
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> I was talking about the ability for python to create individual gui 
> elements like a new context button with an icon, then a new panel, then 
> a new button inside the panel. I was asking if this functionality is 
> needed with categorized general properties. I'm thinking not.

Ah, ok. I guess this depends completely on how the button layouts will 
be handled.

Simply giving BPython access to properties (add, delete, read, edit), +- 
like it is now, mimicking what a user can do via Blender's UI, is a 
clean way to do that. This leaves all gui layout matters to Blender 
code. If this is ok, then there's really no reason for anything else via 
BPython.

Using an improved version of the current system (see properties in Logic 
buttons win) fits well with this, since the button sets have fixed 
dimensions and new properties are simply added below the last addition.

For more control over the layouts, though, either:

1) Python code (probably in callbacks) to create / place gui elements or
2) some simple xml format to define these guis

would work well. The first option is more like things already are, 
besides being a way to have #2 easily, too -- using Python itself, to 
parse the xml data into py code.

-- 
Willian