Blender script help

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I’m a beginner at scripting python and was wondering how to run a script by pressing a button in the tools tab. I’d also like to have another script run when a key is pressed. I already have the scripts but what exactly can you add above it that will make the script run afterwards?

2

and addon is the thing that you want… and may be with some modal parameters

3

Can you show me how that looks?
Like the setup?

4

It’s mostly covered here:
http://www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_73_release/info_tutorial_addon.html

Here’s the additional class to add the operator created in the tutorial as a button in a new panel of the 3D View’s sidebar, Tools tab:

class HelloWorldPanel(bpy.types.Panel):
    """Creates a Panel in the Object properties window"""
    bl_label = "Hello World Panel"
    bl_idname = "OBJECT_PT_hello"
    bl_space_type = 'VIEW_3D'
    bl_region_type = 'TOOLS'
    bl_category = "Tools"

    def draw(self, context):
        layout = self.layout
        layout.operator("object.cursor_array")

Note that this class needs to be registered.

If you want to make your bpy life easier, replace all calls to

bpy.utils.register_class(…) and bpy.utils.unregister_class(…)

by one call to bpy.utils.register_module(name) and bpy.utils.unregister_module(name)