Today I had a look at helping the developer separate between what is a local development package, and what is publicly available.
Rez has a flag for excluding packages that reside on the REZ_LOCAL_PACKAGES_PATH. That's useful when you want to experience what other users are experiencing, without accidental inteference from your development repository.
For symmetry, I also added an option to exclude any localised packages.
This one was special.
Most options in the GUI are saved on exit, and restored on next launch. This one could have been that too, but since we want filters to be configurable globally, across all machines via allzparkconfig.py, there's now a conflict.
- Should we fetch the initial value from
allzparkconfig.py, and store the value locally per machine? What happens when the admin changes the filter? It wouldn't update on an artist's machine - Should we read from
allzparkconfig.pyonly? In which case it wouldn't be saved/restored like other options, resulting in a potentially frustrating change having to be made again and again.
As a start, I went with (2), of not storing this value on the local machine. It can be edited, but is intended for development/testing purposes only.
As options grow, it's becoming increasingly important to keep track of which values differ from their defaults. So I've added a button to visualise when a value has changed, and enable the user to restore it to its default.
One of the challenges here was that QSettings is terrible at serialising types. In that, it just doesn't do it. It's especially apparent with boolean types.
from Qt.QtCore import QSettings
settings = QSettings()
settings.write("myBool", True)
settings.read("myBool") == "true"Note that string value of what looks like the JavaScript/JSON representation of True. That's an issue, because it means when we're fetching defaults from disk, they'll differ from their corresponding option widget; a QCheckBox will be getting a string value of "true" as opposed to a boolean True.
Weekend! Whop whop! Next week I'll dive into styling and make Allzpark the prettiest girl out there.
We've got about 10 more days till release, with 3 to spare.