[Bf-committers] Blender 2.35, oultiner, "open all" (akey)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Ah, I should remove it from the release log.

The methods for 'selecting' in outliner are being reviewed still. I've  
experimented with rightmouse select, like in File Window, with the idea  
that the concept of a 'selected outliner item' could be separated from  
'select/activate' in Blender data itself (as now is, on leftmouse  
clicks). That way operations on large groups of outliner items is  
simple. The Akey then is the logical choice for 'select all'. Using 'A'  
for "show all" isn't very compliant with other Blender windows (apart  
from file window).

Matt pointed me to the fact the current implemented operations are  
still very sparse, and don't work on mixed selections, or not at all.  
He likes to experiment with a rightmouse context menu (showing possible  
operations instead).

The outliner became surprisingly useful in Blender, and is worth  
keeping solid & coherent, and not overloaded with obscure options or  
editing methods. The period until 2.36 we then can nicely use to  
further work on it.

-Ton-

(BTW; yes, outliner would deserve own 'space type'. Just didn't like to  
have this windowtype choices menu grow too large... it's already  
offering confusing amount of choices).


On 18 Nov, 2004, at 3:06, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  the "new features page" describing the Outliner stated:
>
>  Under "manipulating the tree":
>
> 		* Press Akey (keyboard) to
> 		  open/close all
>
>  This seems not to work at least for me.
>
>  Since "a" is a simple characte, it will not be catched be the
>  windowmanager, since otherwise this mail would be only a "mil" ;)
>
>  Kind regards,
>  Meino
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