Tools/Blender Tools Repo

Blender Tools

For developer tools we have a separate Git Repository.

This is to be used to keep tools which are not needed for building Blender but developers may find useful.

• Utility scripts for running checks on code for style, spelling.
• Utility scripts for code-base analysis, creating credits for eg.
• Configurations for 3rd party applications, IDE's.
• Any tools we develop specifically for working with Blender.

Repository Overview

• ./check_source/check_spelling.py: spell checker (Depends on enchant Python module)
• ./config/ide: style configuration for QtCreator and Eclipse
• ./utils/make_cursor_gui.py: simple paint program to create pixmap cursors for wm_cursors.c
• ./utils/make_gl_stipple_from_xpm.py: Converter from 32x32 XPM images to a GL-Stipple array, typically for glutil.c
• ./utils_maintenance/blender_update_themes.py: run to add new fields into existing XML themes
• ./utils_maintenance/trailing_space_clean.py: Strip trailing space and BOM (byte-order-mark) of source files maintained by in our repo

Setting Up the Repo

The developer tools are "connected" to the main Blender Git repository as a submodule. The easiest way to ensure the tools are cloned and ready to use is to run make update from the Blender's sources root.

Example of running the style checker:

python3 source/tools/utils_maintenance/trailing_space_clean.py