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The context menu is a standard way to expose operations of the clicked
item to the user. They expect it to be there, and we can make use of it
as a place to put more advanced operations in.
The menu contains:
* New Catalog
* Delete Catalog
* Rename
Also removes the 'x' icon to delete a catalog from the right side of a
row. This was just placed there temporarily until the context menu is
there. It's too easy to accidentally delete catalogs with this.
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The menu to select the active Asset Library is now in the left bar (so called
"Source List", although I'd prefer "Navigation-Bar").
This has some benefits:
* All Asset Library navigation is in the left sidebar now, giving nice grouping
and a top-to-bottom & left-to-right flow of the layout. The header is focused
on view set-up now.
* Catalogs are stored inside the asset library. Makes sense to have them right
under that.
* Less content in the header allows for less wide Asset Browsers without
extensive scrolling.
* This location gives more space to add options or operators for Asset
Libraries.
Main downside I see is that the side-bar needs to be opened to change
libraries, which takes quite some space. In practice there shouldn't be need to
do this often though.
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This reworks how tree rows are constructed in the layout and how they
behave in return.
* To open or collapse a row, the triangle/chevron icon has to be clicked
now. The previous behavior of allowing to do it on the entire row, but
only if the item was active already, was just too unusual and felt
weird.
* Reduce margin between chevron icon and the row label.
* Indent child items without chevron some more, otherwise they feel like
a row on the same level as their parent, just without chevron.
* Fix renaming button taking entire row width. Respect indentation now.
* Fix double-clicking to rename toggling collapsed state on each click.
Some hacks/special-handling was needed so tree-rows always highlight
while the mouse is hovering them, even if the mouse is actually hovering
another button inside the row.
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Now the icons to add or delete catalogs are only shown when mouse hovering a
catalog item in the tree. This is convenient for quick creation of catalogs,
and doesn't require activating a catalog to edit it first.
Determining if a tree item is hovered isn't trivial actually. The UI tree-view
code has to find the matching tree-row button in the previous layout to do so,
since the new layout isn't calculated yet.
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Feedback was that it's unclear sometimes how to add a new item and that some
people expect a button to add a new item next to the "All" item.
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Catalogs can now be renamed by double clicking them in the Asset
Browser. This is mostly done through the tree-view API, the asset
specific code is very little.
There is some polish left to be done here, e.g. the double click
currently also collapses/uncollapses and activates the clicked item. And
the rename button takes the full width of the row. But addressing these
is better done as part of some other behavioral changes that are planned
anyway.
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Issue was that the `on_activate()` callback of tree-items were
continuously called, because the active-state was queried before we
fully reconstructed the tree and its state from the previous redraw.
Such issues could happen in more places, so I've refactored the API a
bit to reflect the requirements for state queries, and include some
sanity checks.
The actual fix for the issue is to delay the state change until the tree
is fully reconstructed, by letting the tree-items pass a callback to
check if they should be active.
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The `ui::BasicTreeViewItem` took a function-like object to execute on
item activation via the constructor. This was mainly intended to be used
with lambdas. However, it's confusing to just have this lambda there,
with no indication of what it's for (activation).
Instead, assign the function-like object via an explicit `on_activate()`
function.
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The asset catalog design was always that the active catalog would also
display all assets of its child catalogs (or grand-childs, etc.). This
is one of the main characteristics that differentiates catalogs from
usual directories.
Sybren prepared this on the asset catalog backend side with
56ce51d1f75a. This integrates it into the Asset Browser backend and the
UI.
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Makes sure that the active item of a tree never has collapsed parent
items, which can be confusing if it happens. E.g. for the asset catalogs
UI, the active catalog decides which assets are visible. Having it
hidden while being the main factor deciding which assets are visible is
quite confusing.
I think it makes sense to have this at the UI Tree-View level, rather
than doing it manually in the asset catalog code for example. Seems like
something you'd commonly want. We can make it optional in the API if
needed.
Renamed the `set_active()` function to make clear that it is more than a
mere setter.
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Dragging assets onto the "Unassigned" catalog tree item will effectively
move the assets out of any catalog. Technically this means unsetting the
Catalog-ID stored in the asset metadata, or more precisely setting the
UUID to be all zeros.
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Should make the code a bit more organized and help getting an overview
of the interfaces more quickly.
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file`
Introduced by fc7beac8d6f4. During code review it wasn't clear why this
branch was needed, so we removed it. Now it is clear why it is needed
so we added it back and added a comment why the branch is needed.
Patch provided by @Severin.
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With this it is possible to select any number of assets in the Asset
Browser and drag them into catalogs. The assets will be moved to that
catalog then. However, this will only work in the "Current File" asset
library, since that is the only library that allows changing assets,
which is what's done here.
While dragging assets over the tree row, a tooltip is shown explaining
what's going to happen.
In preparation to this, the new UI tree-view API was already extended
with custom drop support, see 4ee2d9df428d.
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Changes here to the `wmDrag` code were needed to support dragging multiple
assets. Some of it is considered temporary because a) a proper #AssetHandle
design should replace some ugly parts of this patch and b) the multi-item
support in `wmDrag` isn't that great yet. The entire API will have to be
written anyway (see D4071).
Maniphest Tasks: T91573
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12713
Reviewed by: Sybren Stüvel
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If the "Current File" asset library is selected in the Asset Browser,
now asssets are filtered based on the active asset catalog. Previously
it would just show all assets. This was marked as a TODO in the code
already.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T91820
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The Asset Browser now displays a tree with asset catalogs in the left
sidebar.
This replaces the asset categories. It uses the new UI tree-view API
(https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/Views#Tree-View).
Buttons are displayed for adding and removing of catalogs. Parent items
can be collapsed, but the collapsed/uncollapsed state is not stored in
files yet.
Note that edits to catalogs (e.g. new or removed catalogs) are only
written to the asset library's catalog definition files when saving a
.blend.
In the "Current File" asset library, we try to show asset catalogs from
a parent asset library, or if that fails, from the directory the file is
stored in. See adaf4f56e1ed.
There are plenty of TODOs and smaller glitches to be fixed still. Plus a
UI polishing pass should be done.
Important missing UI features:
* Dragging assets into catalogs (WIP, close to being ready).
* Renaming catalogs
* Proper handling of catalogs in the "Current File" asset library
(currently not working well).
The "Current File" asset library is especially limited still. Since this
is the only place where you can assign assets to a catalog, this makes
the catalogs very cumbersome in general. To assign an asset to a
catalog, one has to manually copy the Catalog ID (a random hash like
number) to the asset metadata through a temporary UI in the Asset
Browser Sidebar. These limitations should be addressed over the next few
days, they are high priority.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12670
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This will be used by C++ code in the upcoming asset catalog UI commit.
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With 794c2828af60 & f48a4aa0f915 it's possible to reuse possibly
expensive, nested data of a data-block when appending. E.g. the
texture of a material, or the mesh of an object. Without this it's easy
to bloat memory and the file size. Duplicated textures also cause
unnecessary shader recompilations.
The feature was intended to be the new default behavior for the Asset
Browser, but it wasn't actually added to the UI yet. This patch adds a
new import type option to the Asset Browser. So from the menu in the
header, you can now choose between:
* Link
* Append
* Append (Reuse Data)
The latter is the new default.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T91741
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12647
Reviewed by: Sybren Stüvel, Bastien Montagne
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When the Asset Browser shows the "Current File" asset library, now it
also attempts to load an asset catalog definition file from location of
the current .blend file. This happens as follows:
* First, see if the file is inside of an asset library that is "mounted" in the
Preferences. Load the catalogs from there if so.
* Otherwise, if the file is saved, load the catalogs from the directory the
file is saved in.
* If the file is not saved, no catalogs will be loaded.
Unit tests are being worked on in D12689.
Creating catalogs from the "Current File" asset library still doesn't work, as
the asset catalog service doesn't construct an in-memory catalog definition
file in that case yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12675
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Basically this enables the select-tweaking behavior as per the
guidelines:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Human_Interface_Guidelines/Selection#Select-tweaking.
We use this in most other other editors that allow selecting and
dragging multiple items. But besides the consistency improvement, this
is important if we want to support dragging multiple assets (or files)
in future. We want to support this at least for dragging multiple assets
into an asset catalog for the upcoming asset catalog UI.
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Until now, the asset catalogs would only show up after all assets from
the library were loaded. Now the catalogs are read first, which makes
them appear pretty much immediately. This makes the UI more responsive
and feel less heavy.
I added a dedicated file-list type for asset libraries now. While not
necessarily needed, I prefer that so asset library specific stuff can be
handled in there.
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When Browsing libraries the asset files were opened multiple times.
once to determine the needed groups to query and once for each
group to query the items in the group. For file browsing this makes sense
but for asset browsing this can be reduced.
This patch will load the asset files recursively and only opens them once.
Another change is that only the assets are requested and not filtered out
later in the process.
This patch is needed to simplify the library indexing. Where
we need access to the full library content.
## The numbers ##
Benchmarked by adding scenes of the spring open movie to the default
asset library. Refreshing the asset library would recursively load all the files
there.
| **8bc27c508a** | Processed 317 'directories/libraries' | 7.573986s |
| **Patch** | Processed 42 'directories/libraries' | 0.821013s |
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Reviewed By: mont29, Severin
Maniphest Tasks: T91406
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12499
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Catalogs work like directories on disk (without hard-/symlinks), in that
an asset is only contained in one catalog.
See T90066 for design considerations.
#### Known Limitations
Only a single catalog definition file (CDF), is supported, at
`${ASSET_LIBRARY_ROOT}/blender_assets.cats.txt`. In the future this is
to be expanded to support arbitrary CDFs (like one per blend file, one
per subdirectory, etc.).
The current implementation is based on the asset browser, which in
practice means that the asset browser owns the `AssetCatalogService`
instance for the selected asset library. In the future these instances
will be accessible via a less UI-bound asset system.
The UI is still very rudimentary, only showing the catalog ID for the
currently selected asset. Most notably, the loaded catalogs are not
shown yet. The UI is being implemented and will be merged soon.
#### Catalog Identifiers
Catalogs are internally identified by UUID. In older designs this was a
human-readable name, which has the problem that it has to be kept in
sync with its semantics (so when renaming a catalog from X to Y, the
UUID can be kept the same).
Since UUIDs don't communicate any human-readable information, the
mapping from catalog UUID to its path (stored in the Catalog Definition
File, CDF) is critical for understanding which asset is stored in which
human-readable catalog. To make this less critical, and to allow manual
data reconstruction after a CDF is lost/corrupted, each catalog also has
a "simple name" that's stored along with the UUID. This is also stored
on each asset, next to the catalog UUID.
#### Writing to Disk
Before saving asset catalogs to disk, the to-be-overwritten file gets
inspected. Any new catalogs that are found thre are loaded to memory
before writing the catalogs back to disk:
- Changed catalog path: in-memory data wins
- Catalogs deleted on disk: they are recreated based on in-memory data
- Catalogs deleted in memory: deleted on disk as well
- New catalogs on disk: are loaded and thus survive the overwriting
#### Tree Design
This implements the initial tree structure to load catalogs into. See
T90608, and the basic design in T90066.
Reviewed By: Severin
Maniphest Tasks: T91552
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12589
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There may be mode specific panels for some assets in the navigation or
the asset metadata sidebar. For example the pose library will likely do
this. So let the regions redraw on mode changes.
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With this, asset libraries can be directory structures and all assets in
sub-directories will show up in an Asset Browser.
With complex directory structures and many .blend files inside, asset
library reading will be quite slow for now. There's initial work being
done to introduce indexing for this (T82979), other optimizations are
being discussed as well.
Addresses T91406.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12139
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Amendment to 7a5216497cc3.
Removed this before committing, because I thought it wasn't needed. Of
course it was...
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For some reason the asset preview isn't created or loaded correctly in
some instances. This could be addressed with D9974, but hard to tell
since I only have a failing .blend file, no steps to recreate it from
scratch.
Would crash when opening an Asset Browser, selecting an object asset
(that has an invalid preview stored) and opening the Asset Browser
sidebar, so that the preview is visible there.
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Context members of the file space would not be shown in the context API
docs.
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Since recently it's possible to query the active file (as object, not
just the name), but it's quite useful for scripting to have access to
all selected files.
This introduces `bpy.context.selected_files`, returning a list of file
objects representing files in the File Browser.
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This patch removes the "Kerning Style" option for UI widget font
drawing and uses only the current default of "Fitted", since the other
option of "Unfitted" is just the result of truncation errors.
see D12231 for much more information.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12231
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
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Idea for 3.0 is to disable all functionality that isn't well polished
and focus on those parts first. Starting with poses.
* Adds a new experimental option "Extended Asset Browser", replacing
"Asset Browser".
* Unlike the previous option, this isn't enabled by default anymore.
This didn't work well in practice and caused plenty of confusion.
* "Mark as Asset" and "Clear Asset" are hidden if the option is
disabled.
* Same for the category selection in the Asset Browser.
* Always show display the "Only Assets" option in the File Browser while
browing inside .blend files. That way you can hide data-blocks that
are not pose assets.
* The Asset Library setup UI in the Preferences is always visible now,
it's needed for pose library access.
Addresses T90181, T90180 and T90300.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12120
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Right clicking would spawn the context menu under the cursor, but some
operators would actually act on the active asset/file which wasn't
the one clicked on.
When multiple files are selected and one of them is right-clicked on,
selection is not changed to allow operations on multiple files. E.g.
deletion.
This makes the File/Asset Browser match the Outliner (in behavior, not
implementation).
For the right-click selection keymap:
* The context menu still only spawns on W.
* Bonus: Right click now does something, it actually selects files!
I could have done additional changes here to avoid this, but it seems
like a good addition.
This is also a better alternative to rB5edfde58fe60, which didn't work
properly either. Using rename from the context menu would only work if
the clicked on file was also active...
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12065
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton
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When blender starts and the mouse is over a file/asset browser it
crashes. This is because blender wants to highlight a file, but the
layout isn't initialized yet.
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Pass `FileListReadJob` to the `read_job_fn` callback, instead of exploding
the struct into its individual fields, passing those as parameters, and
marking a bunch of those as unused again.
No functional changes.
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Add a comment to document what `FileListReadJob::tmp_filelist` is for,
and how it's freed.
No functional changes.
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In the `FileList` struct, rename the `AssetLibraryReference
*asset_library` field to `asset_library_ref` -- it's a description of
which asset library is used, and not the asset library itself.
This is to make space for a future `AssetLibrary *asset_library` field,
which will point to an actual asset library struct/class.
No functional changes.
Reviewed by: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12151
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The file selection parameters (e.g. `context.space_data.params`) are
expected to be unset in certain cases. Reading 2.4 files seems to be one
of them. Hence, code using it should check it's set first. Also added an
assert to a File Browser UI template printing a message when the
parameters are unset, to help debugging the issue.
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Add a context menu dedicated to asset operations to the Asset Browser.
There are two separate context menus to keep things separated well and
avoid confusing if-else logic (similar to D12057 & D12059). Their polls
make sure they are displayed for the right contexts only.
Also (to be committed as followup cleanup): Remove now unused special
handling for assets in file delete operator.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12062
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