[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern library.c

[Ken Hughes]

Joe Eagar wrote:
> Ken Hughes wrote:
>> The purpose for dup_id is to determine if there *is* a name collision 
>> that will cause the datablock to be renamed.  However, it isn't 
>> actually supposed to be called from Python with the new ID in the 
>> libblock;  if that's being done, then yes it's a bug.
>>
>> I'll check this later; but again, the point is Python side needs a way 
>> to know what the datablock will be called after it's inserted into the 
>> libblock.
>>
>> Ken
> Maybe there could be a get_id_name_after_creation() function or 
> something, that doesn't actually modify data in any way.
> Joe

I'll try approaching from that idea (of course something either has to 
be modified, or function would have to return a new string).  But will 
leave existing ID structures alone.

Ken