[Bf-python] Blender.Group

[Martin Poirier]

--- Ken Hughes <khughes at pacific.edu> wrote:

> cpbarton at iinet.net.au wrote:
> > See if I cant do it tonight
> > Sounds good,
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting Toni Alatalo <antont at kyperjokki.fi>:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:03, Martin Poirier
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>behaves like a set and looks like a set, is a
> set,
> >>>
> >>>Python/C, there's probably a Set Protocol that
> you
> >>>need to implement (to make BlenderGroup behave as
> a
> >>
> >>well i tried to mean that implementing the set
> protocol is making the thing 
> >>behave like a set and look like a set - i guess in
> principle it is the same 
> >>thing in c and py,
> >>
> >>but do admit that i have not done it in c.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Martin
> >>
> >>~Toni
> 
> Sorry, was out of town so didn't catch this until
> now.
> 
> I was thinking the other day that maybe the Set
> Protocol would be a good 
> compromise in handling bitmask flags in Blender. 
> It's Pythonic plus it 
> lets the user set multiple settings in a single
> operation.

The only problem with using it is that the set
protocol is probably a python 2.4 feature of the
C/Python api, so people still on 2.3 will be majorly
pissed when they find out they can't even compile
anymore.

Martin

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