[Bf-committers] Actions need fake users, intended behavior?

[Nathan Vegdahl]

Okay, cool!  I'll leave this out of the training material then.

Thanks for the info! :-)

--Nathan


On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Joshua Leung <aligorith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Indeed this seems to be a bug.
>
> AFAIK, it has always worked this way (as in, this link not being
> counted, though this was never exposed directly as a problem before),
> and may in fact have been the cause of one of the bugs that we used to
> get in the tracker at one point
> (http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=19205&group_id=9&atid=125).
>
> It's probably time to finally rectify this, though I'm currently busy
> finishing off writing various reports, etc. so won't get to it till
> this weekend.
>
> Aligorith
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com> wrote:
>> Hello devs,
>> I'm working on some training material for rigging, and I've run across
>> a behavior I'm not sure is intended or not.
>>
>> It seems that actions do not gain a user from being used in an action
>> constraint.  This means that even though the action is clearly being
>> used by something, it still needs a fake user, lest it be deleted upon
>> saving and reloading the file.
>>
>> Is this intended, or just an oversight?  Should I teach to add fake
>> users to actions that will be used for action constraints, or is this
>> essentially a bug that the user needs to do this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --Nathan
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