[Bf-committers] Weekly irc meeting, october 4 2009

[Dalai Felinto]

Hi,

>the point is that you shouldn't have to recreate F6, it already exists (...) If you write an operator, you get this functionality.
I'm talking about having the same responsiveness as we have with F6,
not to recreate its funcionality.

>And writing a script that requires password input, doing it this way is really a hack, better implement a password textbox in the Blender code then.
I agree it's a hack, I never said otherwise :) I was just surprised
that in 2 out of 2 scripts I was writing in 2.5 I already could use
this pynotifiers features (or whatever would be needed for that.

Cheers,
Dalai
2009/10/5 Brecht Van Lommel <brecht at blender.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Now, I don't know what Dalai wanted to use this for exactly, but I
>>> think it's important he explains it, and we think of how it can fit
>>> in, rather than assume notifiers are the solution.
>>
>> My request may even be simpler than what Matt suggested. I have so far
>> two uses for it. Interesting those are the two scripts I ported to 2.5
>> so far, and both would take advantage of it:
>>
>> 1) a script that requires a password input [1]. Every time one types a
>> char I want to store it internally and replace it with a '*'.
>> 2) a script that requires fine tuning of parameters to calculate
>> something. It's too annoying to (a) change the parameter and then (b)
>> press "calculate". I can see multiple examples of this being needed.
>> eg to move an object in scene through this script.
>>
>> Making long short: Think about how to re-create a "F6" (redo last)
>> kind of functionality. In cases like that you don't want to set a
>> parameter and then click in an operator, you want it to change right
>> away.
>
> The point is that you shouldn't have to recreate F6, it already
> exists, doing it manually is not very reliable and means the tool
> doesn't fit in with other things. If you write an operator, you get
> this functionality. And writing a script that requires password input,
> doing it this way is really a hack, better implement a password
> textbox in the Blender code then.
>
> Brecht.
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