[Bf-committers] File -> Open ... "open as startup file" and a bit more ...

[Brecht Van Lommel]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
> On 27.11.2013 15:55, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>> 1.) Add a checkbox to the File -> Open panel:
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>> If it's to avoid users accidentally saving over this .blend file, then
>> I'm not sure it's very effective. It seems likely users will forget to
>> check this option if they also forget to not save over this file. Or
>> they open .blend files by double click in a file browser outside of
>> Blender, and this option is never presented to them.
>
> Indeed we only need this option to be available from Python.
> Something like this would be ideal:
>
>    layout.operator("wm.open_mainfile", text=name, save=False)

This seems reasonable. Just make the property hidden from users with
PROP_HIDDEN, and find a good name, maybe something like
"open_as_new_file".

>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>> 3.) Add a checkbox to the File -> Save as... panel:
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
> Here is our use case for this:
>
> Sometimes i want to ensure that a user gets basically the same settings
> as we have used within a tutorial. But instead of describing every time
> what specific settings we used in a particular video, i would like to just
> publish the tutorial_setup.blend file.
>
> Of course we try to keep with the factory settings or at least close to
> them. But sometimes it is helpful when we can deliver a "Demo" setup.

It seems not unreasonable to have such an option for file saving, it
would be useful for bug reports too. If the file contains user
preferences it could show an option to ignore them on load, but it
shouldn't show if the file does not contain them.

However, I'm not quite sure if in general it's a good idea to do this
for tutorials. At least I as a user would not like it if tutorial
files would override my user preferences. Is this a practical problem
that people making tutorials are running into, users having different
preferences than used in the tutorial and not realising it?

Brecht.