The dependence on other projects is always a tricky subject, involving lots of technical considerations.
Besides that, they try to avoid pop-ups in Blender whenever possible. They literally don’t want the N-Panel to be a pop-up.
Edit: I don’t want to derail the topic! Just wanted to make sure that even though not being able to move the N-Panel around, which may appear like a technical limitation, it is actually a decision that was deliberately made (at least not to allow it to be a pop-up)
Hi everyone first I want to thanks @H4nnes for this nice wrapper for Blender I downloaded the code I’m learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript I understand code and I decided to update this wrapper with QTWebEngine to create an LLM chat for blender with web technology this is experimentation I’m using Cursor IDE with Claude 3.7 if any one interested I upload the project.
this is the chat interface running in blender inspired in Grok UI.
Thanks again for maintaining this, it’s really helped us move a team over to blender without having to drastically rewrite lots of pipeline UIs!
Is anyone else still getting issues with focus/ the ol’ alt-tab bug?
It seems like our only options at the moment are to either not have QT properly wrap, and then either set the windows to always be on top, or to get lost easily, or to have QT wrap, and have the alt bug.
Am I doing something wrong? Any clever workarounds anyone else found?
alt tab is still an issue, i tried a few hacks to fix it, like check for stuck keys like alt every frame, but the problem always came back in some form.
ideally someone figures out how Qt interacts with the key capturing, so we can fix it properly.
Since the Qt method that wraps a window in a Qt Window, says in the official docs it’s not officially supported and can be buggy, I don’t have much hope.
for now I suggest to disable wrapping, a minor inconvenience i’m afraid you have to pay for the cost of Qt.
To make bqt successfull it would be nice if you guys could make an “example project” which wraps or translates/recreates npanel panels maybe per addon.
it sounds like you want to learn how to make panels with qt / pyside.
there are many resources online for this.
and the AI chatbots can be very helpfull too.
just ask e.g. chatGPT for can you make a demo pyside6 window to see some code
recreating all Blender addons would take a lot of time, and i don’t understand why someone would need that.
Im not a programmer, but was playing with QT panels one day with chatgpt.
We ended up with such solution which is partially working, i.e. it may work as intended for a while, but bugout next time and arrangement of windows will be screwed for some reasons.
Main idea was to sort QT panel window in OS windows order to achieve “effect” of QT panel being parented to blender window, always stay on top, but allow to alt+tab to other application and keep QT window few levels below current active window.
Anyway, here’s a code if someone would be interested: qt_window_handling_like_you_are_dumbass.py (6.1 KB)
Hi, that’s awesome, thank you for developing this!
My only issue is that we’re running Blender on Linux, is the Linux implementation already started? Else I might have to look into it, how hard would you estimate this to be for a quite advanced Python developer?