Dear Blender mailing list, I just spent 3 hours on the blender IRC trying to figure out how to automate a specific task using a python script called via "blender --python script.py".
The purpose of the script is to open a blender file, apply some operations and save the new blender file. This must be done without any click from the user, so that the process can be called via command line (i.e. as part of a bigger system). Quite rapidly I entered into "context hell" trying to figure out the proper context to call "bpy.ops.graph.select_all_toggle(); bpy.ops.graph.sample()". The answer to this was "the_scene.objects.active = the_object; bpy.context.area.type='GRAPH_EDITOR' " (found by someone in the IRC 2 hours after my first attempt). The key problem now is that when running via "blender --python script.py" bpy.context.area is None, this seems to be a consequence of bpy.context.window being None. >From what I could gather in the IRC, no one is aware of a method to create a new window (or setup properly the bpy.context.area) from python. In this case the documentation is of no help (it does not even mention bpy.context.area). Being able to launch automated tasks via "blender --python script.py" seems like a natural usage of this feature, and has multiple use cases. Does any one have a suggestion/idea on how we could make this work ? Thanks for your input. Best regards, rodrigob. _______________________________________________ Bf-python mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-python
