Bforartists: Node Editor - Expose listed Node Groups dynamically in Node shelf.

[Draise14]

Issue

Currently, node groups are only accessible in the Add menu then group sub-menu. You can't just click and drag them into use. You have to search, or go into sub-menus to use them.

Feature Request

Bforartists exposes nodes into a panel, it would be great to be able to have these group nodes also exposed in the side panel with names dynamically, so it's easier to see what groups are available and to re-use them easily.

[ReinerBforartists]

Good idea. Shouldn't be too hard to add the enumeration into a panel (famous last words and so :D ) . This would best go into the relations tab then.

[ReinerBforartists]

Ah, i expected it already. This is nothing easy. I have lost the spaghetti after the fourth class :/

[ReinerBforartists]

release\scripts\startup\nodeitems_builtins.py
line 85
def node_group_items(context):

No idea how this can be incorporated into a panel. The whole add menu is a sphaghettimonster, cluttered across several classes.

[ReinerBforartists]

Giving up. This menu is over my head. I could print a list of the group items, at least this i have managed to some degree. But i cannot enumerate the buttons like in the sub menu. And that's the vital part. So that these groups can be reused and inserted like from the Add menu.

Maybe Iyad has an idea here. I am lost.

[Draise14]

Someone posted an answer on stack exchange, so can be done. Looks like you've already got a commit! Nicely done.
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/207676/node-editor-python-expose-listed-node-groups-dynamically-in-node-shelf-panel?noredirect=1#comment351057_207676

[ReinerBforartists]

Ah, nice, thanks :)