[Bf-python] Object Properties from Python?

[Gilbert, Joseph]

Yes good idea! An internal submodule (like matrix) with visible
prototypes. Property could be a subclass in the Object module then. Ive
started on something already. This is a fairly simple module (internal).
The only catch is the property class must be managed by the
object/material so it suffurs the same problems as bone/vert/face etc.
It will need an update() and flag that's all. (or else getting a list of
properties will attempt to free them when released)

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From: bf-python-admin at blender.org [mailto:bf-python-admin at blender.org]
On Behalf Of Willian Padovani Germano
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 12:16 AM
To: bf-python at blender.org
Subject: Re: [Bf-python] Object Properties from Python?

Hi Joe, Jonathan and all,

(about properties)

Ton once suggested wrapping Properties, that's a good idea.  But better
not as a
Blender.Object submodule, since it can be useful for other parts like
Material.
Note though that Blender's interface needs to have support for these
dynamic
buttons and that is not yet available besides where you know, from what
I
recall.  This is a good time to bring the issue back and see if we can
have them
for objects and materials, at least, it should not be hard to add the
necessary
hooks to the interface so created buttons get visible.

Jonathan Merrit: about adding more data to objects using the script's
gui, it
can be saved in the .blend file if you store the info in a Blender text
object
and warn the user with a comment at the top of the text to not hand-edit
it.
Kind of cumbersome, but it's a way already available.  I've been playing
with
getting some standards ready now for what scripts should do / where to
save
data, etc., as part of the "bg" work recently.  Your idea is a good one,
though
it means adding a dependancy on the data format used by Python to save
the
streams.  We can use the old protocol, but even then we can't be sure
they won't
throw it away in a future version, giving trouble with old .blend files
around.