Using different regions

Usually, panels can be moved freely to another part of the interface. There are a few exceptions where repositioning a panel would not make much sense. For instance, a tool that helps select the controls of a character would be of little help in the Video Editor, and its poll() method might be looking for attributes, such as animation bones, outside of the animation’s context.

Outside of those cases, changing the bl_* attributes of a Panel class is enough to move our panel to a different place. Please refer to the panel attributes that we looked at in the Creating a simple panel section of this chapter.

So, to display our panel in the 3D Viewport area, we can change the values of bl_space_type and bl_region_type as follows:

    bl_space_type = 'VIEW_3D'
    bl_region_type = 'UI'

Figure 5.27: Our panel has been moved to the 3D Viewport area

By default, the...