orca.host.ui.create_dock_panel(html, title, width, height, on_message,
on_close, dock) hosts plugin HTML in a pane of the Plater's dock manager,
next to the sidebar, and returns a UiDockPanel handle
(post/show/hide/close/is_open). The arguments follow create_window(). The
panel uses the window.orca bridge of plugin windows, restores its position
and size from the saved window layout, hides with the Plater off the Prepare
and Preview tabs when floating, and is closed with its plugin; plugin panes
are removed in MainFrame::shutdown().
The web view hosting moves out of PluginPage into a shared PluginWebPanel
base: bootstrap page and swap to the plugin HTML, theme, element-default and
bridge scripts, window.orca message parsing, delivery to the page, and live
re-theming, also re-applied on every load after the swap. Pages tabs and
docked panels both derive from it. Pages tabs now re-theme in place on a
theme change instead of being reloaded, and a window.orca call a host does
not support is logged.
What the hosts share no longer lives in one of them: the bootstrap page, the
base URL and the plugin-window bridge move to Widgets/PluginWebContent, used
by PluginWebDialog and PluginWebPanel alike, and the saved-layout parser
moves to Widgets/AuiPaneLayout, so the Plater does not depend on a plugin
widget.
Includes a sample plugin (sandboxes/orca_dock_panel_plugin_any.py) and
binding and layout-helper tests in slic3rutils.
wx 3.3.2 delivers webview script messages synchronously inside the native
callback on GTK and macOS, so script plugins run with the plugins-dialog
webview's signal/delegate frame on the stack. Creating and presenting the
orca.host.ui window from there crashed on Linux at Raise() --
gtk_window_present while GTK's deferred show was still in flight.
Defer the whole window creation to a CallAfter with a pre-bound registry
handle (post/close stay FIFO-safe, teardown races become a no-op), and
drop Raise() plus the show_modeless_dialog wrapper: Show() already
activates and fronts a new window on every platform.
Hanif Koh