Brushes could work like text datablocks or scenes, the user count isnt really used and you can manually delete... or they could work like actions where a fake user is added by default. adding access to the fake user setting should be trivial.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com <zan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suggest you take a look at Blender 2.4X databrowser (Shift F4), it had a > way to manage fake users (f). In 2.5 you have to use the outliner in > databrowse mode bu its not as easy/fast > > Daniel Salazar > www.3developer.com > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jason Wilkins > <jason.a.wilk...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Brushes all have an extra reference count that keeps them from getting >> deleted even when there is no paint mode that references one of them. So >> it >> is possible to unlink a brush from every paint mode and it will still be >> saved in the .blend. This apparently isn't a problem and is the purpose of >> the fake user, however there is no interface that will allow a user to >> permanently delete this brush or relink it into a paint mode again. The >> result is that if a user creates and deletes lots of brushes they will >> cruft >> up the his saved files needlessly. When I was editing startup.blend I >> created/deleted several brushes while creating a new set. I noticed this >> problem and used the debugger to skip saving any brushes that were not in >> use by any of the paint modes. >> >> I'm assuming that the fake user acts as some sort of recycle bin so that >> deleted objects can be retrieved so I think the main problem here is the >> inability to recover brushes that have been unlinked. In fact, there is no >> way to even, for example, link a brush used in texture paint into vertex >> paint or something like that. (I may be wrong, before I changed it, the >> same Draw brush was linked into 3 different paint modes, but as far as I >> can >> tell I do not know how that was done). >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers