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Python Scripting in Blender

You're reading from   Python Scripting in Blender Extend the power of Blender using Python to create objects, animations, and effective add-ons

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234229
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Python
2. Chapter 1: Python’s Integration with Blender FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Python Entities and API 4. Chapter 3: Creating Your Add-Ons 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Object Transformations 6. Chapter 5: Designing Graphical Interfaces 7. Part 2: Interactive Tools and Animation
8. Chapter 6: Structuring Our Code and Add-Ons 9. Chapter 7: The Animation System 10. Chapter 8: Animation Modifiers 11. Chapter 9: Animation Drivers 12. Chapter 10: Advanced and Modal Operators 13. Part 3: Delivering Output
14. Chapter 11: Object Modifiers 15. Chapter 12: Rendering and Shaders 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Styling the operator panel

We know that the operator panel is displayed in these circumstances:

  • When context.window_manager.invoke_props_dialog is called explicitly.
  • When bl_options is set to {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'} and the operator has finished.
  • When Edit | Adjust Last Operation is called. This circumstance too requires the presence of bl_options = {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'}.

By default, all properties are displayed in a column layout. Most property types can be declared with a hidden=True flag, but that’s not the case for BoolProperty, so we cannot do it with set_hours.

As a workaround, we could change set_hours to IntProperty, with a 0 to 1 range and hidden set to True, but by implementing the draw method for our operator, we can just omit the properties that we don’t want to display.

Writing the draw method

We want to change two things in the Create Hour/Minutes Text panel:

  • The hour and minutes...
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