orca.host.ui.create_dock_panel() 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 panel reuses 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.
Includes a sample plugin (sandboxes/orca_dock_panel_plugin_any.py) and
binding and layout-helper tests in slic3rutils.
PluginHostApi.cpp had grown into one TU holding the module entry point plus
three unrelated domains (presets, model/mesh graph, app access), and
PluginHostSlicing.cpp mixed ownable geometry value types with the
non-owning live print graph. Reorganize the orca.host surface into
plugin/host/ with one registrar per domain:
- PluginHost.hpp/.cpp entry point (replaces PluginHostApi)
- PluginHostBindings.hpp internal per-domain registrar declarations
- PluginHostGeometry.cpp BoundingBox, Point, Polygon, ExPolygon + ndarray parsing
- PluginHostMesh.hpp/.cpp TriangleMesh snapshot (own TU ahead of planned
mesh construct/mutate APIs)
- PluginHostPresets.cpp Preset, PresetCollection, PresetBundle
- PluginHostModel.cpp scene graph: Model, ModelObject, ModelInstance, ModelVolume
- PluginHostApp.cpp Plater + plater()/model()/preset_bundle() accessors
- PluginHostSlicing.cpp live print graph only, now with a single lifetime story
- PluginHostUi.hpp/.cpp moved unchanged
PluginBindingUtils.hpp stays at plugin/ root: it is shared with pluginTypes/
and tests, not host/-specific.
No Python-visible change: same submodules, class names and docstrings.
Verified with slic3rutils and fff_print suites.
Introduces a plugin capability that runs Python at the seams of Print::process(),
letting a plugin read and rewrite slicing state as it is computed.
- New slicing_pipeline_plugin config option; selected plugin refs are serialized
into the print manifest.
- Print gains an injectable hook fired at each pipeline step (posSlice,
posPerimeters, posInfill, ...). It is a no-op when unset, fires only on genuine
(re)computation, and never on the use-cache path.
- orca.slicing submodule: SlicingPipelineCapabilityBase plus a trampoline and a
Step enum. Capabilities read the live graph through zero-copy int64 numpy views
(contour/holes geometry with unscaled coordinates, flattened toolpath data) and
edit it through 2D-geometry mutators with cache-invariant refresh.
- GUI dispatcher runs capabilities during slicing under the GIL, turns plugin
errors into slicing errors, honors cancellation, and adds the plugin picker.
- Ships the InsetEverySlice sample plugin and binding/hook tests.
Hanif Koh