WM: message bus replacement for property notifiers

Use dynamically generated message publish/subscribe
so buttons and manipulators update properly.

This resolves common glitches where manipulators weren't updating
as well as the UI when add-ons exposed properties which
hard coded listeners weren't checking for.

Python can also publish/scribe changes via `bpy.msgbus`.

See D2917

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/editors/include/ED_screen.h b/source/blender/editors/include/ED_screen.h
index 23e65011387..89a6828a59d 100644
--- a/source/blender/editors/include/ED_screen.h
+++ b/source/blender/editors/include/ED_screen.h
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ struct ARegion;
 struct uiBlock;
 struct rcti;
 struct Main;
+struct wmMsgBus;
+struct wmMsgSubscribeKey;
+struct wmMsgSubscribeValue;
 
 /* regions */
 void    ED_region_do_listen(
@@ -86,6 +89,18 @@ void    ED_region_grid_draw(struct ARegion *ar, float zoomx, float zoomy);
 float	ED_region_blend_factor(struct ARegion *ar);
 void	ED_region_visible_rect(struct ARegion *ar, struct rcti *rect);
 
+/* message_bus callbacks */
+void ED_region_do_msg_notify_tag_redraw(
+        struct bContext *C, struct wmMsgSubscribeKey *msg_key, struct wmMsgSubscribeValue *msg_val);
+void ED_area_do_msg_notify_tag_refresh(
+        struct bContext *C, struct wmMsgSubscribeKey *msg_key, struct wmMsgSubscribeValue *msg_val);
+
+/* message bus */
+void ED_region_message_subscribe(
+        struct bContext *C,
+        struct WorkSpace *workspace, struct Scene *scene,
+        struct bScreen *screen, struct ScrArea *sa, struct ARegion *ar,
+        struct wmMsgBus *mbus);
 
 /* spaces */
 void    ED_spacetypes_keymap(struct wmKeyConfig *keyconf);