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I need to create a searchable material dropdown that excludes grease pencil materials. However if I do it like this

row.prop_search(item, "material_selector", bpy.data, "materials")

then all the materials in scene get included in material dropdown. How can I give custom search elements to prop_search method instead of generic bpy.data?

griips21
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Use a pointer property with a poll.

To distinguish a regular material from one for a gp object there is the handy attribute Material.is_grease_pencil

Similarly to https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/159155/15543 and using a poll method https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/101303/15543

Will narrow down the selection based and offer the same choices as the regular material drop down.

import bpy
from bpy.props import PointerProperty

def poll_material(self, material):
    return not material.is_grease_pencil


class TEST_PT_layout_panel(bpy.types.Panel):
    bl_label = "Prop Panels"
    bl_category = "Test Panel"
    bl_space_type = 'PROPERTIES'
    bl_region_type = 'WINDOW'
    bl_context = "scene"


def draw(self, context):
    scene = context.scene
    layout = self.layout

    col = layout.column()
    col.prop_search(scene, "prop", bpy.data, "materials")
    #or 
    col.prop(scene, "prop")





def register():
    bpy.types.Scene.prop = PointerProperty(
        type=bpy.types.Material,
        poll=poll_material,
        )
    bpy.utils.register_class(TEST_PT_layout_panel)


def unregister():
    bpy.utils.unregister_class(TEST_PT_layout_panel)
    del bpy.types.Scene.prop


if name == "main":
    register()

Kinda related:

How to populate UIList with all material slot in scene? 2.8

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