[Bf-committers] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [34590] trunk/blender/source/blender/ python/intern: workaround [#25845] Empty UI panels

[Martin Poirier]

You should use the reporting API for that.

It logs to the internal console, so users will be able to copy/paste and whatnot.

Martin

--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Doug Hammond <doughammond at hamsterfight.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Doug Hammond <doughammond at hamsterfight.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [34590] trunk/blender/source/blender/ python/intern: workaround [#25845] Empty UI panels
> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Received: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 2:23 PM
> Another side effect of this is that
> it's no longer possible to call my UI
> message operator if something goes wrong with the render
> process. I'm forced
> to revert to printing to console, which many of our users
> are unable to find
> or copy/paste from correctly (example:
> http://www.luxrender.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5369
> ).
> 
> So, some new way to cause UI messages to appear would be
> great ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Doug.
> 
> 
> On 1 February 2011 18:07, Shaul Kedem <shaul.kedem at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > Please please, for the sake of everyone's sanity,
> start communicating to
> > the
> > > API users before changing it.
> >
> > I think there should be a dedicated mailing list for
> changes in the
> > python API. Even if it is not stable or official yet,
> it's a de-facto
> > API and people are using it.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Doug Hammond
> > <doughammond at hamsterfight.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Though it should be quite simple to fix
> things without duplicate code
> > >> in your case, by making a function that both
> the operator and render
> > >> engine call?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yes, indeed this is what I've done - in fact the
> refactoring is not as
> > big
> > > an issue as the lack of communication here and
> the fact that I end up
> > having
> > > several addon users complaining at me that things
> have stopped working
> > every
> > > time this happens!
> > >
> > > Please please, for the sake of everyone's sanity,
> start communicating to
> > the
> > > API users before changing it.
> > >
> > > Doug.
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