[Bf-committers] Group visisbility /invisibility toggle

[David Bryant]

As mentioned in an earlier post, I'm writing a group visibility 
/invisibility toggle for groups in the Groups panel as an experimental 
feature instead of layer functionality.GUI is up and working and almost 
finished and even toggles to invisible.

Obstacles:
When the obstacle is hidden,it needs to be selected to be brought back to 
the active layer.Blender doesn't have a function that selects groups by the 
assigned name so as to not depend on  targeting a specific object in a 
certain group for visibility / invisibility (as the outliner currently does) 
in order to toggle it back to visible .The current group functions  loops to 
test if a certain object is in a certain group and selects it.

The whole group needs to be able to toggle for visibility / invisibility.

The current fuction setup is no good for an visibility / invisibility toggle 
setup.

I need to write a function that selects and test objects based on the 
assigned NAMES of groups then I will be completely finished then Whole 
groups can be toggled for
visibility / invisibility in addition to specific objects in a certain group 
(already in function in the outliner).

Then groups will add even more power to scene organization.

My question is how is the assigned name of a group linked to the objects in 
a group so as to select the object based on the NAME of the group so that I 
can write a function that does this?

Hope someone can help.
Digikiller


P.S.
I'm going to port the named layers code patch to compile with the current 
SVN code this evening with a .blend and update my wiki page (even though the 
project in my opinion has been reduced to purely personal in the eyes of 
others).