Expose CanvasItemEditor and SpatialEditor to GDScript

[neikeq]

It would be great to have access to CanvasItemEditor and SpatialEditor from GDScript.
The main usage example I can think of is creating plugins that need to draw to the CanvasItemEditor's viewport (like a TileMapEditor plugin) or to the SpatialEditorViewport (like this grass plugin).

In C++ you would access these viewports this way:

CanvasItemEditor::get_singleton()->get_viewport_control();
SpatialEditor::get_singleton()->get_editor_viewport(0);

But there is no way to access them from GDScript unless you use some crazy tricks like this (which could stop working if the editors child structure changes):

• CanvasItemEditor
• SpatialEditor

[akien-mga]

Not critical for the upcoming 2.1, so moving to the next milestone.

[neikeq]

@akien-mga I was actually going to try adding this before releasing 2.1 if I had some time. Leaving it like this for now. I will check later :)

[neikeq]

Never mind. Exposing the canvas editor viewport is easy, but SpatialEditorViewport may need a better strategy. It may also be good to expose some information about the two editors, like the selected tool mode, etc.
Leaving this for 2.2.

[bojidar-bg]

It is really simple to get access to the viewport BTW (works at least for canvas):

var viewport = get_tree().get_edited_scene_root().get_parent()

😄

[aaronfranke]

Is this still a desired feature?

[winston-yallow]

Yes this is still a desired feature (at least for me). The workaround mentioned by bojidar-bg does not always work. I had some cases where the edited_scene_root was null.

[blaze-the-star]

Is this still being worked on?

[neikeq]

I'm closing this issue as I'm no longer interested in this feature right now. If anyone is still interested, feel free to open a more detailed proposal in godotengine/godot-proposals. I may make one myself in the future if I regain interest.