<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bassam Kurdali</b> <<a href="mailto:bkurdali@freefactory.org">bkurdali@freefactory.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In 2.43, markers are available in the action, IPO and NLA window. This<br>is good.<br><br> However, upon (for instance) hitting the delete key, we now have a new<br>pop-up choice: delete keys or markers.</blockquote>
<div><br>I can agree with this, it's been a bit annoying. I'd rather have separate hotkeys for delete, and no popup at all! For the sort of thing I've been doing lately (not complex character animation) I haven't been using markers in the Ipo/action editors at all, and although the fact that the capability is there is great, I wish I could just ignore them and not be presented with that popup all the time.
<br><br>At the very least, it should only show the popup when there are actually markers there to be deleted, instead of all the time as it is now!<br></div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Why not treat markers and keys as "entities" in these windows? then<br>selecting a key de-selects a marker, etc. (unless you hit shift) and G,<br>shift-D and X etc will just work on the selection. this adds the bonus
<br>of being able to move keys and markers together if they are associated.<br></blockquote><br>I'll refrain from commenting too much on the other points since I don't do enough character animation to be well informed on the markers vs keys workflow there, but what you suggest as treating them the same does seem to make sense. Especially if you're using a marker to mark a point in time in which something happens, the keys surrounding it will be relative that that marker. So it would seem useful to be able to move and manipulate them all together.
<br><br>cheers<br><br>Matt<br><br></div><br>