[Bf-funboard] Enhancements to Outliner

Peter Haehnlein hidarikiki at gmx.net
Thu Jan 17 21:56:51 CET 2008


Chris Burt wrote:
> In the middle of an involved project it has come to my attention that
> the outliner, while an amazing addition to Blender, is missing some
> simple by key features that, in my opinion would make it vastly more
> useful.
> 
> --Menu/Hotkey access to restriction columns
> Its great to have the restriction columns. Fantastic even. But as far
> as I can tell, I can't control them with hotkeys, nor can I find a
> menu item which gives me access to the feature. Why would I want to do
> either of these things? Turn off the visibility, selection, or render
> state for hundreds of items over and over gets very tedious and slow
> when the only way to accomplish the task is to click each item's
> restriction buttons individually. Setting the status by selecting
> large numbers of items and using a hotkey or menu entry (or both) in
> the outliner would save me hours.
> 

In Photoshop and Freehand, one can disable the first item's restriction 
button, hold LMB and drag over the following buttons. That way the user 
can dis- or enable a longer row of, for example, visibility-buttons. I 
miss that in Blender as well as Gimp.

cheers

Haunt


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