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Summary
Blender allows you to change up your viewport layout to reflect different ways of working. For example, you might need one set of windows for modeling, and a different set for rendering. The same is true for scripting. Blender comes with a preset scripting layout that you can customize to meet your coding needs.
Blender's interface includes:
- Text Editor
- Python Console
- Info Window
- Blender Console
Here is what a typical scripting layout might look like…
Interface Elements
Text Editor
A standard text editor for editing, loading, and saving Python script files. You can do standard stuff like line numbering and syntax highlighting…. but, alas, there is not code completion.
Python Console
A standard text editor for editing, loading, and saving Python script files. You can do standard stuff like line numbering and syntax highlighting…. but, alas, there is not code completion. Coupled with the text editor, the Python Console is a handy tool for exploring the API more efficiently while coding.
The console offers an 'Autocomplete' feature which allows you to explore the Python API…
Info Window
Blender's 'Info' view port shows you all recent Blender activity as executable Python commands. This is very handy for prototyping a process using modeling methods and then assembling them into a script.
This is what the Info window returns after placing some objects in the scene…
Blender Console
Blender also has a console window… this is nothing more than a command prompt. Most often, I use it to print values when I am testing.