[Bf-python] More Proposed API changes.

[Martin Poirier]

--- Willian Padovani Germano <wgermano at superig.com.br>
wrote:

> Campbell Barton wrote:
>  > Just we can do this whilst keeping the same
> files, 3 modified lines of
>  > code will do this.
>  >> 3) Move Blender.Main.* into Blender.*
>  >>   Willain suggested we discuss this on the list.
>  >>
>  >>   So there wouldbe Blender.scenes,
> Blender.meshes etc...
>  >>
>  >>   This would be ifdef'd in a way that it could
> be easily omitted from
>  >> next release if people arnt keen on having it
> there.
> 
> As Campbell mentions, this is something we should
> discuss.
> 
> Currently there's the new Blender.Main module, from
> which we can access 
> iterators for scenes, objects, meshes, etc. right
> from G.main, for those 
> familiar with Blender C internals.
> 
> "Main" doesn't seem like a good name to me. It makes
> perfect sense for 
> Blender devs, but possibly none for everyone else.
> 
> So we can:
> 
> 1) Put these iterators directly in the Blender
> module: Blender.scenes, 
> Blender.meshes, etc.
> 
> Handy, but what I grew to dislike is conceptual:
> scene, meshes, etc. are 
> data belonging to a .blend file (which, actually, is
> the current one in 
> memory), let's say, they don't belong to "Blender"
> itself. In practice, 
> we note that e.g. Blender.meshes simply changes if
> we load another 
> .blend file.
> 
> So having something like Blender.blend.meshes, etc.
> may be a better 
> idea, specially if we automatically add it to
> Python's main dictionary 
> upon starting Blender. Users could then simply type
> things like:
> 
> blend.meshes['Cube'].LocX = 10.0
> scene = blend.scenes.active
> print scene.name
> 
> And we may be able to find a nice way to extend this
> "blend" idea to 
> support other .blend files.

I like the "blend" idea.

Martin


 
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