[Bf-funboard] Patch: A tiny bit of Layer manager
Campbell Barton
cbarton at metavr.com
Fri Mar 23 17:34:20 CET 2007
Hi Intrr,
In general I like the functionality, however Id prefer a dot drawn in
the layer buttons
Heres an example
http://members.optusnet.com.au/cjbarton/layer_but.png
Doug Ollivier wrote:
> Nice, I really like it. But of course I would say that. now for the
> rest of your layer manager stuff to turn up.
>
> Doug
>
> Alexander Ewering wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as I'm increasingly working with 3D stuff again in recent days, I've
>> *really* come to miss the layer manager in official CVS.
>> So, I've ported at least a tiny bit of it - in my opinion, one of the
>> most
>> useful things: LAYER BUTTON COLORS.
>>
>> - All layer buttons (3d view header, moveto-menu, object buttons) get
>> drawn in different color shades depending on:
>>
>> - if they are empty or not
>> - if an object in them is selected/active or not
>>
>> This already dramatically improves workflow, as you can instantly see:
>>
>> - in which layer(s) the current object is
>> - to which layer(s) you can safely move an object (empty ones)
>> - which layers you don't need to care about (empty)
>>
>> For your pleasure and consideration, here's the patch against current CVS
>> :-)
>>
>> http://pub.instinctive.de/layercolors.diff
>>
>> (I didn't submit it to the patch tracker because it's already full of
>> great
>> stuff that gets ignored...)
>>
>> Here's a screenshot:
>>
>> http://pub.instinctive.de/layercolors.png
>>
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