Add an option to silence bpy.ops.anim.keyframe_delete_v3d when used in Addons

The issues:

1.) When we want to remove keyframes from a range of frames in an
action,
then we can use bpy.ops.anim.keyframe_delete_v3d to remove the keys
frame by frame. However, whenever the operator hits a frame with no
keyframes, then it generates an error. While when it hits a frame
with keyframes, then it reports the numbner of removed keys.

This creates a lot of unnecessary noise in the Blender console.

2.) Furthermore a related issue is that WM_event_add_notifier() is
called also when no frames where removed. This seems to significantly
slow down the removal of keyframes in a range of frames at least
when i use vscode for debugging.

A proposal for improvement:
This patch adds an attribute 'confirm_success' which controls
if the operator reports back what it did (or did not) while
executing. Silent mode would then be called like this:

bpy.ops.anim.keyframe_delete_v3d(confirm_success=False)

Note: confirm_success is True by default so this patchj does not
change the behavior of Blender, it only gives the option to scripts.

3.) Personal note:
I have chosen the attribute name to be equal as it is used
in other related operators. However i rather would rename the
attribute to "verbose" (preferred) or "with_confirm". But i let this
to be decided by the reviewers. Thanks for your time to review!

Reviewed By: campbellbarton

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12629

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/editors/animation/keyframing.c b/source/blender/editors/animation/keyframing.c
index 8dc4aed9f0e..1ef7ee755ea 100644
--- a/source/blender/editors/animation/keyframing.c
+++ b/source/blender/editors/animation/keyframing.c
@@ -2107,10 +2107,12 @@ static int delete_key_using_keying_set(bContext *C, wmOperator *op, KeyingSet *k
     return OPERATOR_CANCELLED;
   }
 
+  PropertyRNA *prop = RNA_struct_find_property(op->ptr, "confirm_success");
+  bool confirm = (prop != NULL && RNA_property_boolean_get(op->ptr, prop));
+
   if (num_channels > 0) {
     /* if the appropriate properties have been set, make a note that we've inserted something */
-    PropertyRNA *prop = RNA_struct_find_property(op->ptr, "confirm_success");
-    if (prop != NULL && RNA_property_boolean_get(op->ptr, prop)) {
+    if (confirm) {
       BKE_reportf(op->reports,
                   RPT_INFO,
                   "Successfully removed %d keyframes for keying set '%s'",
@@ -2121,7 +2123,7 @@ static int delete_key_using_keying_set(bContext *C, wmOperator *op, KeyingSet *k
     /* send notifiers that keyframes have been changed */
     WM_event_add_notifier(C, NC_ANIMATION | ND_KEYFRAME | NA_REMOVED, NULL);
   }
-  else {
+  else if (confirm) {
     BKE_report(op->reports, RPT_WARNING, "Keying set failed to remove any keyframes");
   }
 
@@ -2289,6 +2291,8 @@ static int delete_key_v3d_without_keying_set(bContext *C, wmOperator *op)
   int selected_objects_success_len = 0;
   int success_multi = 0;
 
+  bool confirm = op->flag & OP_IS_INVOKE;
+
   CTX_DATA_BEGIN (C, Object *, ob, selected_objects) {
     ID *id = &ob->id;
     int success = 0;
@@ -2370,20 +2374,20 @@ static int delete_key_v3d_without_keying_set(bContext *C, wmOperator *op)
 
   /* report success (or failure) */
   if (selected_objects_success_len) {
-    BKE_reportf(op->reports,
-                RPT_INFO,
-                "%d object(s) successfully had %d keyframes removed",
-                selected_objects_success_len,
-                success_multi);
+    if (confirm) {
+      BKE_reportf(op->reports,
+                  RPT_INFO,
+                  "%d object(s) successfully had %d keyframes removed",
+                  selected_objects_success_len,
+                  success_multi);
+    }
+    /* send updates */
+    WM_event_add_notifier(C, NC_OBJECT | ND_KEYS, NULL);
   }
-  else {
+  else if (confirm) {
     BKE_reportf(
         op->reports, RPT_ERROR, "No keyframes removed from %d object(s)", selected_objects_len);
   }
-
-  /* send updates */
-  WM_event_add_notifier(C, NC_OBJECT | ND_KEYS, NULL);
-
   return OPERATOR_FINISHED;
 }