[Bf-committers] Attribute locking - UI feature

[Jonathan Williamson]

This is a feature I've wanted for a long time. I think it should be
directly supported by specific fields, via a toggle. Such as dimensions,
transform, scale, resolution, etc.

Then for more arbitrary fields a driver is fine.

On Monday, January 27, 2014, Daniel Salazar - patazstudio.com <
zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:

> This could be solved by easy Drag and Drop or RMB From/TO driver
> creation. IE: RMB on X > "Drive this attribute" , RMB on Y > "With
> this attribute"
> Daniel Salazar
> patazstudio.com
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Alex Fraser <alex at phatcore.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > On 28 January 2014 12:49, Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> Sometimes it can be desirable to lock two or more attributes together so
> >> that changing one changes the other too.
> >>
> >> Some examples on that are image dimensions (so aspect ratio remains the
> >> same) and object scale (so changing one attribute changes the scale of
> the
> >> whole object).
> >
> > Campbell and I started a patch for a similar feature: if you click in
> > a field and drag up or down, it selects other fields that will be
> > updated at the same time. It supports dragging left/right to change
> > numerical values, and text entry with the keyboard for numbers and
> > strings. The current behaviour is to apply the same value to all
> > selected fields. This could be changed to maintain ratios for
> > numerical fields.
> >
> > http://www.pasteall.org/49101/diff
> >
> > This method finds fields by panel layout, so there are no required
> > changes to RNA.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alex (z0r)
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