[Bf-committers] Selecting Vertice

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The challenge is making things as non-modal as possible, especially if  
you have a choice.

Editmode, posemode, uv-faceselect, weightpaint, vertexpaint - and i bet  
you can find more - all have usablility issues for that reason. With  
editmode being the least worse of the five btw. Not easy at all to  
replace too...

-Ton-

On 19 Oct, 2004, at 19:42, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Selecting Vertice
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:22:33 +0200
>
> Hi Ton,
>
>  just a question:
>
>  Why is the EDITMODE sticky then ?
>
>  Meino
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Such a sticky border select mode isn't very nice, like circle  
>> selection
>> which is annoying that it keeps hanging. Without altering the current
>> fast workflow in Blender, I think we can add some presets to tweak
>> preferred actions with mouse buttons like this:
>
>> Apart from middle mouse, we can call the other two mouse buttons the
>> "Select button" and the "Action button" or so. That's RightMouse and
>> LeftMouse now, respectively. For these we already use three gesture
>> possibilities:
>>
>> a) Click-release
>> b) Click-hold-drag
>> c) Click-hold-still
>>
>> And of course with or without modifier keys (shift, alt, ctrl)
>>
>> Here's a grid with the possibilites. The (*) marked ones could become  
>> a
>> user choice
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>> -------
>>                    |  Click-release   |   Click-hold-drag    |
>> Click-hold-still
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>> -------
>> Select Button     |  Select          |   select+grabber     | *  
>> toolbox
>> or
>>       + SHIFT      |  extend select   |                      | *  
>> border
>> select or
>>       + CTRL       |  object select   |                      | *  
>> circle
>> select
>>       + ALT        |  loop select     |
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>> --------
>> Action Button     |  3D cursor       | * gestures or        | *  
>> toolbox
>>   or
>>        +SHIFT      |  ?               | * border select or   | *  
>> border
>> select or
>>        +CTRL       |  Add point       | * lasso select or    | *  
>> circle
>> select or
>>        +ALT        |  Middlemouse -   | * circle select or   | *  
>> grabber
>>                    |    emulation     | * grabber            |
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> --
>> --------
>>
>>
>> Not all combinations are possible always though. Like gesture or lasso
>> should better not start with click-hold-still :)
>> Also, the Select button + drag better not switch to new modes too.
>> That's asking for accidents.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> On 19 Oct, 2004, at 11:26, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  only an idea...
>>>
>>>  Currently you have to do the following procedure to de/select  
>>> vertice
>>>  in EDIT MODE in Blender:
>>>
>>>  Select Object to edit
>>>  Enter EDITMODE
>>>  press BKEY
>>>  MMB or LMB to de/select vertice, which can be selected in one reach
>>>  after releaseing MMB/LMB you automatically leave Selection Mode
>>>  press BKEY again
>>>  MMB or LMB to de/select vertice, which can be selected in other  
>>> reach
>>>  after releaseing MMB/LMB you automatically leave Selection Mode
>>>  press BKEY again
>>>
>>>  and so forth...
>>>
>>>
>>>  Would it be more handy to not to leave Selecting mode after
>>>  releaseing MMB/LMB but to jump back to the mode which is reached
>>>  directly after BKEY is pressed ?
>>>
>>>  One could leave Select Mode with another press on BKEY then -- right
>>> as one
>>>  is leaving EDITMODE with another hit on TAB .
>>>
>>>  Just an idea...
>>>
>>>  Comments are welcome...
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>  Meino
>>>
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