[Bf-committers] New feature: Console output space type (request for input).

[Jacques Beaurain]

Hi All.

My attachments caused my mail below to bounce. Made me decide to
revive my website again. You can read about it and see the screen caps
here:

http://jb-online.net/?p=4

Cheers,
Jacques

On 4/15/06, Jacques Beaurain <jacques.beaurain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been playing with Python scripting in the last month or so and
> had the following idea to improve working with scripts quite a bit in
> Blender.
>
> 1. The console output should have its own space within the UI and not
> on the console command line.
> 2. This console should display the same text that is currently written
> to a console in this new space.
> 3. One should be able to copy/paste from this window
> 4. One should be able to locate Python parsing errors in the Text
> Editor by say double clicking on the error in the Console Output
> window type which will switch to/open the python source in the Text
> Editor and place the cursor in the appropriate position.
> 5. Error output (from stderror) should be coloured appropriately.
>
> Working with these requirements I spent a couple of days trying
> different things out. It was a little tricky to redirect the streams
> and communicate asyncronously with both in the UI. So I had to
> implement a threaded solution which turned out to be working quite
> well.
>
> Attached is two screencaptures of my first working implementation. I
> still need to finish 4 and 5 above and do some cleanup of the header
> buttons etc. (e.g. implement a clear console option). I will provide a
> patch in the next week. I compile both Windows and Linux with Scons,
> so I will make it work for these two for sure.
>
> I welcome any suggestions for specific features at this stage and I
> will try to add them in during the cleanup stage.
>
> Cheers,
> Jacques
> --
> "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
> into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am
> not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that
> could provoke such a question."
> Charles Babbage
>
>
>


--
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put
into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am
not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that
could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage