Blender 4.2 compatibility

[CGSeb]

Hi, I love the plugin!

With the new Extension structure for the addons, is it planned to update this Blendcharm plugin, please?

It would be awesome!

Have a great day :)

[BlackStartx]

Hi Seb! 🌺

First of all, I'm happy you like my plugin!

Secondly, thanks for letting me know, I wasn't aware of the new features implemented with Blender 4.2 and they are interesting changes for the future of the PyCharm plugin.

From what I understand, it appears that the add-ons (should) remain unchanged since the Blender 4.2 documentation is available for those. (We still need to be cautious as things are in Beta, and I haven't checked to see if the feature broke in 4.2 yet)

Regarding the new Blender 4.2 Extensions... I can add a new Right-Click Context button to create a new Blender extension and I will fill or create the required files.

I definitely need to change the Add-on Refresh On Save function, as they are probably handled differently, and so on...
I will work on it and add support for them, but I'm not sure if the feature will be ready with Blender version 4.2~

Thanks again and sorry for the late reply!
-BlackStartx

[CGSeb]

Hi, thanks!
Yes the extension feature is 100% probability to go with 4.2 (this is the main feature for this update 😅).

So there are multiple problems with 4.2:

• It doesn't seem to work with portable versions anymore (need to install the extensions in the appData folder 🙁)
• The extensions are stored in a different folder now

As for the activation/refresh, I don't really know how it works now.

If I can be any help let me know.

[louhy]

Just for the record here, the "auto install when running out of PyCharm" feature seems to be working with the Linux Flatpak version of Blender. This is good, but on Linux it's also trivial for me to put a soft link in the Blender Addons directory so I can have the actual 'project' anywhere, so it's not especially exciting.

Regarding the features that would be exciting:

"Debug mode" (with professional) causes an error which sounds like a Java code issue rather than a 4.2 issue. Unfortunately I don't see a stack trace anywhere, just this:

Access is allowed from Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) only; see https://jb.gg/ij-platform-threading for details Current thread: Thread[ApplicationImpl pooled thread 27,4,main] 2073083624 (EventQueue.isDispatchThread()=false) SystemEventQueueThread: Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main] 836509262

The auto-update feature doesn't seem to be working either, not sure if that's a 4.2 related failure.

[CGSeb]

To make a portable version, we need to add a folder named "portable" at the root of the blender folder

[dsvensson]

Is it possible to get bpy completion?

[CGSeb]

@dsvensson This is not the topic here, but look into this => https://github.com/nutti/fake-bpy-module/tree/main