Custom Property Pages

[Timothy M. Shead]

Folks:

I've committed a first pass at a new type of plugin - "custom property
pages" - that allow authors to customize the UI on a per-plugin basis.  
The idea is that you create a custom property page for a specific plugin
type, and it takes the place of the normal auto-generated page when an
instance of that plugin is displayed in the Node Properties Panel.  If
you build with NGUI_MORPH_POINTS_PAGE_MODULE enabled, you'll see that
the normal properties are replaced by a do-nothing page if you select
MorphPoints.  An author could literally do anything here to provide
customized control over their plugin.  In practice, you probably don't
want to completely rewrite the property interface, just customize it a
bit, add some custom controls, etc.  Much of the recent refactoring is
to make this as easy as possible.  MorphPoints is a good use-case, since
the main need there is to provide some specialized Add Morph Target /
Remove Morph Target controls that create specific combinations of user
properties and replace the vanilla Add User Property dialog.

Cheers,
Tim


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[hoako]

Timothy M. Shead wrote:

> Folks:
>
> I've committed a first pass at a new type of plugin - "custom property
> pages" - that allow authors to customize the UI on a per-plugin basis.  
> The idea is that you create a custom property page for a specific plugin
> type, and it takes the place of the normal auto-generated page when an
> instance of that plugin is displayed in the Node Properties Panel.  If
> you build with NGUI_MORPH_POINTS_PAGE_MODULE enabled, you'll see that
> the normal properties are replaced by a do-nothing page if you select
> MorphPoints.  An author could literally do anything here to provide
> customized control over their plugin.  In practice, you probably don't
> want to completely rewrite the property interface, just customize it a
> bit, add some custom controls, etc.  Much of the recent refactoring is
> to make this as easy as possible.  MorphPoints is a good use-case, since
> the main need there is to provide some specialized Add Morph Target /
> Remove Morph Target controls that create specific combinations of user
> properties and replace the vanilla Add User Property dialog.

Cool feature!

Also it would be interesting setting the step increment on the morphing targets
multiplier. This was the reason i used 100 instead of 1. But having this feature
should solve the problem. Is this possible right now?

Cheers!
Joaquín


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[Timothy M. Shead]

Joaquín Duo wrote:
> Also it would be interesting setting the step increment on the
> morphing targets
> multiplier. This was the reason i used 100 instead of 1. But having this feature
> should solve the problem. Is this possible right now?
>  
A better solution is to set the step increment for those properties, but
that isn't doable today with user-properties.

Tim


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