Sybren A. Stüvel 8ddc03d6ef Add-on: evaluate visible job settings immediately
For each job setting, if it's visible and has an `eval` property, it is now
evaluated immediately when switching job types. This means that properties
like the frame range get filled in automatically.

If there is already a value, this process is skipped, in order to not
overwrite the user's choice.

This resolves a common issue where the render job was rejected because
the frame range was kept empty.
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Flamenco 3 Blender add-on

Setting up development environment

~/workspace/blender-git/build_linux/bin/3.1/python/bin/python3.9 -m venv --upgrade-deps venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install poetry
poetry install

Generating the OpenAPI client

  1. Make sure Java is installed (so java --version shows something sensible).
  2. In the root directory of the repository, run make generate-py

Type annotations and lazy imports

This add-on tries to only load Python packages from wheel files when necessary. Loading things from wheels is tricky, as they basically pollute the sys.modules dictionary and thus can "leak" to other add-ons. This can cause conflicts when, for example, another add-on is using a different version of the same package.

The result is that sometimes there are some strange hoops to jump through. The most obvious one is for type annotations. This is why you'll see code like:

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from .bat_interface import _PackThread
else:
    _PackThread = object

This makes it possible to declare a function with def func() -> _PackThread, without having to load bat_interface immediately at import time.