GSoC 2020: Custom Menus - Weekly Reports

[Tempo]

Hi !
I’ll post the weekly report for the custom menus in this thread.
you can take a look at the proposal here, and give feedback and talk about the project here.

My branch is soc-2020-custom-menus and here’s the build

Week 1 : June 1 - 7

• Section added in preferences
• Added Space selector and context selector
• The section display the items in the menu according to the space and the context
• other buttons are set but not linked

next week objective : being able to add and remove an item and modify it.

[Tempo]

Week 2 : June 8 - 14

• You can select an item and change it’s name and operator
• You can add an item
• You can remove an item

next week objective : manage all kind of items (operator, menu, separator and properties) correctly.

[Tempo]

Week 3 : June 15 - 22

• you can move items up and down
• you can change the type of the item
• lot of cleaning and fixing
• started sub menu management

next week objective : finish sub menu management and start to work on custom pie menu

[Tempo]

Week 4 : June 22 - 28

• Added submenu (edition, display and usage)
  

  
  
  

• Added pie menu
  

  
  
  

next week objective: finish to implement pie menu and add macro

[arko159]

I am willing to help you out in every possible way on this project ,…since i ardently need this feature in blender 2.9 stable release…

[xan2622]

Blender 2.90 alpha is currently in Bcon2 phase, which means no more new features can be added (only features improvements and stabilization). Maybe for 2.91…

https://developer.blender.org/project/view/110/
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Process/Release_Cycle

[Tempo]

Thank for your support !

Week 5 : June 29 - July 5

Sorry, I got sick this week so I didn’t do much, I still fixed some issues and added a menu editor for pie menus.

Next week objective : catch up last week objectives and work on items edition

[Tempo]

Week 6 : Jul 6 - 12

• switch custom menu displaying from menu to operator
• start implementation of multi user menus.

next week objective : finish implementing multi menu

[Schillem]

This is and awesome Feature. I have 2 questions:

1 - Do you think it would be possible to export this into some kind of python Code?
2 - Will we be able to add Icons into those menu?

Thank you for all the good work.

[Tempo]

1 - It’s not planned in this project.
2 - yes, you’ll be able to use icons.

Thank you for the support

[Tempo]

Week 7 : Jul 13 - 19

• adding and removing an user menu
• creating multiple menus implemented and fully working
• you can change menu name

next week objective : add keymap binding and finish items edition

[Tempo]

Week 8 : July 20 - 26

• added keymap for each menus
• started fixing pie menu button.

next week objective: finish pie buttons and items edition

[Tempo]

Week 9 : July 27 - August 2

• Pie menu : sub menu tools buttons set
• property edition
• operator properties edition
• icon edition
• Keymap displaying and keybinding remake

Next week objective : set unique identifier for user menus and ad panel displaying

[ckohl_art]

The two dropdowns in the top center and top right (View3D and objectmode) are for setting the Poll conditions?

[Tempo]

The content of the menu is different depending on where you use it. 3D view won’t have the same actions than the Node editor.

[Tempo]

Week 10 : August 3 - 9

• change id to auto generated id names
• change icon edition
• started to setup panel displaying

Next week objective : Finish panel setup

[Tempo]

Week 11 : August 10 - 16

We’re coming close to the end of the GSoC so my mentor asked me to clean the work, fix bugs, …
Therefor, this week and the next one will mostly be about cleaning code.
Do not hesitate to report bugs and crashes.

[slowburn]

I’d love to try this out, but the User Menus tab in the preferences is completely blank for me. And if I try to load factory defaults, Blender just crashes without warning. Maybe it’s because the built on GraphicAll is a bit old?

[Thane5]

I just tried to compile it (on windows), but i’m getting some symbol error, and in the end there is no blender.exe in the build directory.

[Tempo]

Hi, the blank screen has been fixed, I’ll go ask for a new build. I’m still working on the factory default crash. Thank you for the report.

I don’t know where you compilation error can come form, what error do get ?