[Bf-python] Ok, heres the status of the EMesh code.

[joeedh]

Joseph wrote:

> Hi, All it's been a while,
>    As I remember EMesh was willian's baby for years but was never 
> implemented. As I remember the original idea was to have 2 major 
> functions in the module : EnterEditMode and ExitEditMode which would 
> call the edit.c  functions in blender src.  As I remember all editmode 
> structures are temporary and simply by calling exit edit mode all 
> temporary structs are written to the mesh data.
>   Also I remember when I added vertgrouping things to NMesh I 
> originally wanted to add 'selection' functions for vertgroups however, 
> you can really only 'select' things when you are in edit mode (this is 
> also true for armatures).
>    I would like to hear willian's comments on this. Also I would like 
> to see selection functionality as a major portion of EMesh. My opinion 
> on EMesh is that an editmesh should be returned from a regular mesh 
> structure through a call to enterEditMesh with a Mesh structure as an 
> argument. All data for editmesh should be temporary and upon a call to 
> exitEditMesh all data is written to the original mesh caller and 
> editdata is cleaned up by python. 

Ehh. . .the whole point of EMesh is to implement real-time mesh editing 
tools.  This can only be done in EditMode, and by the EditMesh's nature 
a thin wrapper is really IMHO the best way to do it.

And it will be bug-free.  Fixing the GetScreen* functions should not be 
difficult.

joeedh