[Bf-committers] Substituting hot keys in an addon

[Nathan Vegdahl]

Okay, it sounds like there isn't really a nice way to do this yet,
then.  So I'll change vanilla Blender to pop up a menu on shift-A.
That should be useful for other addons involving armatures as well.

--Nathan


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Michael Fox <mfoxdogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16/06/11 06:46, Nathan Vegdahl wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>     I am wondering if there is a best practice for substituting hotkeys
>>> via an addon.
>>>
>>>     The use-case is that in Rigify I would like to allow the user to
>>> add rig-type samples via shift-A in armature edit mode.  Doing so will
>>> require popping up a menu of some kind.  However, currently shift-A in
>>> armature edit mode does not produce a menu, and instead immediately
>>> calls the bone_primitive_add operator, so I cannot simply insert items
>>> into the non-existent menu.
>>>
>>>     What I would like to do is substitute in a menu when the Rigify
>>> addon is enabled.  I am curious if there is an accepted best-practice
>>> way to do this, that is robust against custom keymaps, for example,
>>> and other corner-cases.  Should I just search the active keymap for
>>> the bone_primitive_add operator, and substitute in my own?  That seems
>>> like it could potentially cause problems.
>>>
>>>     Alternatively I could make vanilla Blender produce a menu, and then
>>> simply insert my own items into the menu when rigify is enabled.
>>> Would that be a better way to go about it?
>>>
>>> --Nathan
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>> why don't you look at how dynamic spacebar addon does it
>
> Dynamic spacebar is certainly not best practice since making reloading
> the defaults (Ctrl+N), clears the key binding.
> This isn't really the fault of the scripts author, we just don't have
> a good way to do this yet.
>
> --
> - Campbell
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