[Bf-committers] properties per datablock & python

[Joe Eagar]

Ooh cool! My ID property browser was just for testing purposes, it 
wasn't originally meant to be seriously used at all.  As a consequence, 
the code is really terrible and it still is sortof not all that useful.  
It's great that you're coding a replacement.

Joe

Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> Hi. I think the included ID Properties Editor is fairly limited. It has problems with 
> big lists of properties (does not support scrolling, at least the last time I 
> checked). Therefore I started to write my own quite some while ago. I wouldn't 
> consider it finished (I am to stupid to implement a scrollbar! can you imagine that! 
> I tried for days but the math behind that is to high for me. gah. therefore the code 
> is not very clean right now).
>
> Some GUI features I implemented:
> rescaling of GUI when the width of the window changes, scrolling (with wheel), 
> horizontal scrolling (wheel+shift), zooming (wheel+ctrl), panning (MMB), collapsible 
> sublists (so some kind of treeview) etc.
>
> I wrote a little abstraction layer for blenders GUI functionality. I think the python 
> API to draw GUIs is very ugly. My abstraction layer makes it much more object 
> oriented and declarative (you create a button and it will be displayed until you 
> delete it, no need for something like a draw method). There where ugly things about 
> memory leaks/unclean state after the script is closed in my script though. I 
> circumvented them with weak refs (full python needed) and some other ugly hacks.
>
> There sill is a problem about min/max values in numerical inputs, though. What 
> min/max value should I choose? Blenders input widgets need them.
>
> See:
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118333
>
> 	-panzi
>
>
> Campbell Barton schrieb:
>   
>> Hi Jonathan, Joeedh wrote a GUI property editor in python that can be
>> accessed from the help menu.
>> I hope to work on a property browser that includes an ID property
>> editor, if nobody else gets in before me ;-)
>> - Cam
>>