DevTools

Blender addon - Add development tools to blender text editor

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Description

Text operators

Text editor > Sidebar > Dev Tools

Helpers for your current script:

• Print debug variable - Add a line in text to print selected variable on next execution
• Disable all debug - Comment all lines terminating with "#Dbg" (like the print debug variable do)
• Delete all debug print (replace by blank lines)
• Enable all debug
• Time selected lines - Add two timer lines to print execution code (in seconds) of selected line (add import if necessary)
• Expand text shortcuts - Replace C. with bpy.context. and D. with bpy.data
• write classes tuple - Write a tuple at cursor containing all classes in file (for register/unregister in loop)
• Context override - Modal, click in any area after clicking the button to generate a context override function pointing to this area type
• Text diff external - Print a diff with internal text and external source in console (appears only if file is external)
• Open folder - Open folder where text is located in OS browser
• Open externally - Open in external default editor or associated program

Opening addons places on disk:

• Open scripts buit-in - open addon location in the installation directory where addons shipped with blender are stored
• Open scripts user - open local user addon source (Where it goes when you do an "install from file", e.g: in "Appdata roaming" for windows)
• Open scripts external - open external scripts location if any specified (in Prefs > File)
• Open config folder - open local user config folder

Inserting / printing infos about blender:

• Print usefull resources path - Print in console and add to current text all paths relative to addons location, config path and more
• Insert date - Insert current date at cursor position. re-click add hour. re-re-click add abbreviated day
• Release infos - Insert blender release info (Date, Hash, branch), Usefull for bug report (print full build info in console)

Modal:

• Event Keycode printer - Modal to capture event and print event.type and event.value. Serve as quick way to know keycode to use for keymap or modals

Addon listing with batch operation

Text editor > Sidebar > Addon List

Display a filterable and selectable list of all addon listed by blender:

• Button to open addon location (:file_folder:)
• Additional action with modifier+clic on folder button:
  • Ctrl + clic: copy path
  • Alt + clic: module name
• Filers to show module name and version (Search bar right buttons)

Actions:

• Open Active Prefs - Open addon pref of active (highlighted) line
• Export Addon Pack As Zip - Export selected addons in a zip pack with include/exclude filters
• Print Selected Infos - Just print some infos in console
• Batch Disable addons - Disable all selected addons

Actions for interactive console:

Interactive Console > Header bar

• Select Area - click in any area to write in console the path to it (in current layout). e.g: bpy.context.screen.areas[5]

• Context override - click in any area to write context override variable line (in current layout)

Ctrl + F - search word in API within the scope of datapath already typed in console

Ctrl + H - pop up a history of console lines. select some and press enter to add then to clipboard

Text-editor shorctut:

• Ctrl+Shift+I : add a quick import/classic module statement at cursor
• Ctrl+P : add print(selection)
• Ctrl+Alt+P : add print("selection")
• Ctrl+Shift+P : trigger print debug variable
• Ctrl+L : Quote selection (with automatic quote or double quote choice)