[Bf-funboard] Modes & modes

[Thorsten Wilms]

Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> Do you mean:
>>
>> tool -> hotkey
>> mode -> menu
>>
>> ?
>>
>> (It should be clear, that tool or mode is a question of feel. Because  
>> a Tool (like rectangular selection) establishes a mode.)
> 
> 
> Not really... a mode is sticky, permanent. After one border-select in  
> Blender the situation is back to normal. This is what 'non-modality'  
> defines. I think. :)
> In photoshop all tools in the main toolbar are real modes. In Blender  
> almost all tools are not, but temporal loops that return to normal.  
> This is a very important distinction, influencing workflow a lot.
> 
> ...

A mode is when gestures (keys, clicks, mouse-movement ...) have 
special/changed meaning.

With border-select the mode ends with the actual selection-action, 
whereas with classical tools like in Photoshop, you switch tools.

So things like border-select are modal, but feel very natural because 
with the completion of action the mode is left.


Talking about modes vs tools could be misleading. Could we use a 
distinction between persistent modes (must be explicitly terminated) and 
auto-termination (must have nicer name!) modes? Examples: 
proportional-vertex-editing and border-select.

Hope to not confuse people ...


And now I think loop-select should behave like border-select (for 
consistency). Press key (or an icon), make your one seletion and exit. 
Multiple selection? No problem: just repeat, as the selection is kept 
anyway. Don't know how it is currently implemented.


Has anybody thought about face-loop selection?


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Thorsten Wilms