Hi UI-inclined people,<br><br>Comments on which style works better (or suggestions on radically different methods) are welcome.<br><br>Note that the original style is practically the same one used in a few other packages (i.e. Realflow, and the old Lightwave). No other package really uses the "Array-Index" before the property name, but rather after it. In this regard, the style I've presented here is a bit on the radical side, though from what I've read, it might work.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Joshua<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Joshua Leung <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aligorith@gmail.com">aligorith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Revision: 18991<br>
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Author: aligorith<br>
Date: 2009-02-16 10:48:38 +0100 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009)<br>
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F-Curve names: Experimental style 2<br>
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In this commit, I've experimented with the way in which F-Curve names (seen in DopeSheet/Graph Editor) are put together.<br>
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Now, F-Curve names are assembled in the form:<br>
<array-index> <property-name> (<struct-name>)<br>
i.e. "X Location (Bone)", "Y Location (Object)"<br>
"Specularity (VeryLongMaterialName)", etc.<br>
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The goal of this experiment was to hopefully make it quicker to do a left-margin scan and identify the defining differences between closely related F-Curves.<br>
- This has the benefit of no (potential) need for horizontal scrolling back and forth to see and compare the end portions of names, and also to avoid the important parts of the name getting pushed out of the standard viewable area by some owner-struct long names.<br>
- The downside is the loss of the clear hierarchial layout closely related to the RNA-paths used internally, that was provided by the old method. Also, this method also looks rather awkward on first glance, but if it improves efficiency of use, why not :)<br>
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