<div dir="ltr">This is an email I sent to Sergey, in case anyone else wants to comment..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Jeske</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidj@gmail.com">davidj@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:24 AM<br>Subject: movie clip tracking patch and questions<br>To: Sergey Sharybin <<a href="mailto:sergey.vfx@gmail.com">sergey.vfx@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>> b) A couple places don't respect the dpi-scaling properly (they are super tiny on retina) movie-clip-dopesheet line-title-text. The whole the property->marker section.<br>
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</div> Uh, didn't know this. And it's indeed nasty crap and we need to fix this. Could see some issues on my laptop, but would need help of someone with retina to help solving all the rest issues with DPI.<br></blockquote>
<div> <br></div><div>I made a patch for a few DPI issues, including the ones I saw in the movie clip editor... DPI scaling issues are visible by modifying the User-Preference "DPI". The font-size issue in the dopesheet is only visible on Retina. </div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=35889&group_id=9&atid=127" target="_blank">http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=35889&group_id=9&atid=127</a><br>
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> c) movie-clip-editor marker-selection behavior and selection-sync between views feels both buggy and inconsistent...<br>
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</div>This is true..</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm going to look and see if I can make a patch to fix the selection. It should be easy. A few comments and questions below...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> c.1) clicking an already selected marker in movie-clip-tracking leaves the selection in-tact -- IMO it should act like 3d view and clear the selection first, then re-select the item. This is also true in the movie-editor-dopesheet.<br>
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</div>Not actually sure what does it mean. Is it about cycling through all markers which are almost at the same location when trying to select marker?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. Clicking to select an item should clear the existing selection. The existing selection should only preserved when shift-clicking. Currently it preserves the selection even when normal-clicking. </div>
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> c.2) There is no way to remove a single marker from selection in movie-clip-tracking. If you shift-click a selected marker once in movie-clip-tracking, it makes it selected+active. If you shift-click it again, it returns to merely selected -- it should deselect it.<br>
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</div>Agree it's not so easy to deselect marker, but there's a reason to do so. You shall be able to deselect different areas of marker. For example, when you want to scale pattern using general transform tool (S-key).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think I see what it's doing now. It allows deselection of a marker while keeping the search box selected. This is pretty odd behavior, as the search-box feels more like a transform control than a separate item itself. It's also weird, because a translate still moves the marker even when only the search box is selected.</div>
<div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">My guess here would be to keep current behavior when it's only a single marker select, and shift-select would deslect the whole marker when there're multiple markers selected?<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>How about a menu-bar "filter" allowing the user to control whether translate/scale affect the whole marker, or just the search boxes for the entire selection? </div><div><br>
</div><div>This would allow moving a many of search boxes together, without introducing this selection confusion issue. This would also allow hotkeys like "g" transform and x/y constraint, to work on the search-box, by switching into the search-box mode. It would probably be sane for clearing the selection to reset to "whole marker" mode.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you like this, I can make a patch for it. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>> c.4) movie-editor-dopesheet selection doesn't listen to selection from other views<br>
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</div>Dopesheet has got own selection. Idea of this is to be able to run different operators from dopesheet on tracks you've selected there.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In the 3dview dopesheet, there are potentially multiple dopesheet lines for every 3d view object, so this separation is more understandable. However, in the movie clip editor, there is a 1-to-1 relationship between markers and dopesheet lines, so there is no reason for the selection set to be different. Is there any reason for tracks to have multiple dopesheet lines?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks.... David.</div></div></div></div>
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