Pause

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Goal

Enable pausing. This will implicitly enable validation-only followed by a continuation of processing when pressing play, and also a pause button to continue processing at a later time.

Motivation

Sometimes, collection and validation takes a long time. In those cases, it can be helpful to try validating to see if all is well, and then immediately continue publishing.

Implementation

Since there is a gap between validating and finishing, it is possible that the user may inadvertently make valid data invalid and publish it without first validating it. This feature is intended for use exclusively within the GUI, so we can rely on the focus event of the window to determine whether anything could have happened on the outside.

If validation has happened, and the window looses focus, either produce a confirmation or forcefully disable buttons to prevent accidental publishing of potentially invalid data.

More in-depth implementation details being discussed in Pyblish Lite.

• Add Validate button pyblish-lite#22