Essential Text Editor add-ons for coders

tin2tin · September 23, 2021, 10:12pm

Context override add-on: https://b3d.interplanety.org/en/context-override/

1_conscience_0_dimen · November 12, 2021, 11:02pm

Easy way to maximize quickly text editor:
right click normal context menu
right click and drag (mouse move) toggle maximize windows

tin2tin · November 13, 2021, 3:51am

Not at computer right now, but isn’t ctrl+alt+space exposed in the View > Area menu?

tin2tin · November 13, 2021, 8:17am

Auto close brackets etc. by Matheus Santos has been committed:
https://developer.blender.org/D13119

1_conscience_0_dimen · November 13, 2021, 4:18pm

yes but you can create locally another shortcut and that’s a lot more intuitive and fast. in fact you click and do a gesture as “I want to enlarge this or reduce this”. I just shared because finally this is the best way to be sure to stay in the window. try it and tell me. I’m doing an addon around manipulating objects and cursor and I tested a lot of different ways, and trying thing concretely is the best way to find more intuitive and natural processes. that’s why I still don’t forget the mess in keys going from 2.7 to 2.8. a lot of things has been misunderstood and have been a regression there. Imaging now to move an object people are using G. when you do everything at the mouse like select move unselect…and certainly not using a shortcut to do the most common thing. I could share my key config to make feel what I mean blender2.93.py (76.5 KB)

1_conscience_0_dimen · December 7, 2021, 4:46am

I did an update in Advanced_Addons_Installer, to synchronize install from text editor(TE), with external text editors.
when installing an addon from TE, the original file is saved too. so if you do some modifications in TE, it will be modified in an external editor too. you can see the gif on github.
if you do some modifications outside, this is automatically reloaded(resolve conflict) when reinstalling the addon from TE

remember you need to put the main installer in quick favorite, to have access from everywhere. it’s a great help and super quick. I use it a bunch.

Blender

and I cleaned some useless menus too and put more explicit text buttons in preferences> addons

I do some updates with my needs but any help is welcome

1_conscience_0_dimen · December 8, 2021, 12:02am

ok I did an update because I forgot the point that some ext editor are auto saving…
so I did 2 entries
Blender_3
if you saved externally use the second option. it will reload the file
so you don’t have to open this and choose the right option. (boring)
Blender_4
I updated the gif on the github page

edit; other update to remove previous version even if the file name is changed. so behaving like the multi addon installer part

tin2tin · December 17, 2021, 5:38pm

@iceythe One more attempt:

Show some support here: https://developer.blender.org/D13616

iceythe · December 18, 2021, 1:28am

That’s cool!

Personally, I’m done contributing code. If anyone can further the text editor, all the power to him

1_conscience_0_dimen · December 21, 2021, 3:05am

Hi I did an update for advanced addon installer. I added “open multifiles” in text editor.
watch this first https://youtu.be/VYJxFDdOBuk
so you can use a multi file addon in a folder,
install it with the option install/reload addon (it detects init file with a valid bl_info)
you can open multifiles in text editor to modify them, and save Alt+S (the original files), reinstall the addon (first step).
if you do some external modifs you can do open multifiles again (files with same names will be replaced)
if you create some files directly in the text editor, save them in a directory and you can use the same method again…
https://github.com/1C0D/Advanced_Addons_Installer__Blender_Addon

tin2tin · December 21, 2021, 6:52am

Congratulations you succeed. So much perseverance!

1_conscience_0_dimen · December 22, 2021, 8:00pm

thank you
I corrected a little bug on a missing variable

badoli · December 23, 2021, 11:21am

And here is my little off-topic “i only want to use the internal text editor if absolutely necessary”-script:

auto_reloader

While activated it simply reloads all updated script files and executes the one selected script. No more clicking the red button to manually tell blender “Yes! I want the new file, thanks!”

Big advantage is: It’s editor-agnostic. You’re using Sublime? Atom? VSCode? VIM? Notepad++? Nodepad? Stone tablets? Script don’t care.

Disadvantage: You’re executing by saving the file… Meh, can’t have everything i guess.

Additional functionality: You can swap the file path of the selected script from relative to absolute and back. Very useful when you need to share the script along with the blend file and people don’t use the very same path structrue.

Github: auto_reload_script.py

And i’m already very sorry for my hacky code.

Edit: Inspired by Samy Tichadou’s Auto Reload for images/textures.

1_conscience_0_dimen · March 30, 2022, 12:17am

I erased previous post to not make doublons
I did another simple ahk to mimic “search api” addon, out of blender. for example select a word in your browser (or any other window) and press shift+ctrl+F1, it open API with the searched word. if there is no selection a message warns you.
search api.ahk (576 Bytes)
it could be possible to improve this to have it in the Windows context menu.
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=38579
any improvement is welcome

edit:
ok I improved my script again ALWAYS ON TOP
explanation on the github page. but you can use it to pin anything now or specifically only the windows console and in the window this is marked ¤¤¤¤¤ PINNED ¤¤¤¤¤

github.com

1C0D/Toggle-Console-on-Top-WindowsOnly--Blender/blob/main/README.md

# Toggle-Console-on-Top-WindowsOnly-Blender addon
toggle the window console and be sure it's opening on top!  
in the Window Menu > Toggle Console On Top  
there you can add a shortcut ALT+F1 should be ok

# Always_on_top
you can add this script (alwaysOnTop.ahk) in your menu start (command shell:startup)  

PRESS ALT+F12 to pin unpin, always on top, the Windows console (the blender one or not!) (marked then ¤¤¤¤¤ PINNED ¤¤¤¤¤)  
the console must just be opened (not needeed to be active(to click on it))
N.B: if there are several Windows consoles, it will be on the last active

PRESS CRTL+ALT+F12 to pin unpin, always on top, ANY ACTIVE WINDOW! (marked then ¤¤¤¤¤ PINNED ¤¤¤¤¤)  
(to unpin no need to make the window active again)

so in blender typically you press Alt+F1(don't forget to create it) to open the console on top
and then you can press Alt+F12 to make it PINNED always on top even if it is behind again and not selected

1_conscience_0_dimen · April 3, 2022, 10:44am

@tin2tin I was thinking about a simple proposal in C in text editor. when in autocomplete https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/source/blender/editors/space_text/text_autocomplete.c
in the switch line 333, introduce a default doing the same as esc (to esc from autocomplete) + insert input
(maybe it should be more precise, like if input = alpha numeric so another case) but the effect would be if enter autocomplete, writing again another char will close autocomplete and keep on writing.

tin2tin · April 3, 2022, 11:42am

You should ask Campbell about it. You can reach him in a pm in the blender chat.

1_conscience_0_dimen · April 5, 2022, 12:09am

@tin2tin maybe…
I did an update in console_easy_text_edit, an operator to directly open a module file, when typing his name in the console (or import name). in the console menu: “Open Module File”. can be usefull to search some code

1_conscience_0_dimen · April 5, 2022, 11:49pm

ctrl+p… is super useful in dev tools addon, I was frustrated to not have it in another editor so I created it easily in VSC following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6Km8nYz28
print("$") with shift ctrl p and print("$", $) with shift alt p

edit: to do exactly same shortcuts as dev tools: ctrl p ctrl+shift+p which are already used, use “when”: “editorHasSelection” in the keybindings.json. to only trigger the shorcut when there is a selection

[
    {
        "key" : "ctrl+p",
        "command" : "editor.action.insertSnippet",
        "args": {"name": "print wrap"},
        "when": "editorHasSelection",
    },
    {
        "key" : "ctrl+shift+p",
        "command" : "editor.action.insertSnippet",
        "args": {"name": "print wrap plus"},
        "when": "editorHasSelection",
    },
]

my code in python.json is

{
   "print wrap": {
   "prefix": "print_wrap",
   "body": [
           "print('$TM_SELECTED_TEXT')"
       ],
   "description": "print wrap selected"
   },
   "print wrap plus": {
       "prefix": "print_wrap_plus",
       "body": [
                "print('$TM_SELECTED_TEXT:', $TM_SELECTED_TEXT)"
            ],
       "description": "print wrap plus selected"
       }
}

APEC · August 11, 2022, 5:49pm

any solution for this script?
with new changes for Blender 3 - T78228 Send all python errors to info editor it doesn’t catch console errors anymore

tin2tin · August 19, 2022, 9:42pm