UI: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to cycle through space context "tabs"

In User Preferences, Properties Editor and toolshelf, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab now activates the next or previous space context (or category in case of toolshelf tabs), respectively.

For Properties Editor such functionality was completely missing, only toolshelf allowed cycling using ctrl+mousewheel (or only mousewheel while hovering tab region). Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are common web browser shortcuts, so they're a reasonable choice to go with.
Reaching the first/last item doesn't cause the cycling to stop, we continue at the other end of the list then. (I didn't add this to Ctrl+Mousewheel toggling in toolshelf since I wanted to keep its behavior unchanged.)

We could get rid of (Ctrl+)Mousewheel cycling in toolshelf, but this may break user habits.

The cycling happens using a new operator, UI_OT_space_context_cycle, for toolshelf tabs it's hardcoded in panel handling code though.
Generalized rna_property_enum_step a bit and moved it to rna_access.c to allow external reuse.

Reviewed By: venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2189

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/makesrna/RNA_access.h b/source/blender/makesrna/RNA_access.h
index 9cbe132282f..820465ee7d1 100644
--- a/source/blender/makesrna/RNA_access.h
+++ b/source/blender/makesrna/RNA_access.h
@@ -916,6 +916,7 @@ int RNA_property_enum_get(PointerRNA *ptr, PropertyRNA *prop);
 void RNA_property_enum_set(PointerRNA *ptr, PropertyRNA *prop, int value);
 int RNA_property_enum_get_default(PointerRNA *ptr, PropertyRNA *prop);
 void *RNA_property_enum_py_data_get(PropertyRNA *prop);
+int RNA_property_enum_step(const struct bContext *C, PointerRNA *ptr, PropertyRNA *prop, int from_value, int direction);
 
 PointerRNA RNA_property_pointer_get(PointerRNA *ptr, PropertyRNA *prop);
 void RNA_property_pointer_set(PointerRNA *ptr, PropertyRNA *prop, PointerRNA ptr_value);