[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/src editmesh_tools.c

[Alexander Ewering]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Chris Burt wrote:

> There are plenty of blender users that have a wheel mouse. In fact.. actual 
> three-button mice are much more rare. By a large margin. So you should have 
> rephrased your comments to say, "But I don't have a wheel mouse."

I've tried using a wheelmouse with blender, and I stopped working after about
10 minutes because of intense finger / hand strain from constantly trying
to press the mousewheel when transforming the view.

Because I still need my hands, I've investigated sources for usual three-
button-mice, and got one from SGI.

> Zooming with a wheel mouse is particularly nice. You can also pan/rotate 
> using the wheel combined with modifier keys.

I always found the mousewheel quite useless, no matter which application.
It has a limited range, you can only zoom that far forth and back with it,
then it's "used up" because of its limited rotation range per action.

In my opinion, it's not a lot more than a marketing joke.

> As for it being an exclusive control... of course that isn't a good idea but 
> he's obviously not done.
>
> How about some positive feedback about the new mouse control Alexander? I've 
> used it and I find it to be fantastic.

Well, mouse control is very problematic still.

Both during the "choose your edgeloop" loop and during the edgeslide loop,
the system basically stalls and gets very sluggish. Confirming or cancelling
the action (choose loop / choose position) takes several seconds to execute,
in between it still previews as if you hadn't done anything.

Also, I can't see any difference between SHIFT and non-SHIFT-constrained
edgeloop movement, except that the numbers in the header are different.
Movement is the same.

>
> Regards,
> --Chris
>
> Alexander Ewering wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Johnny Matthews wrote:
>> 
>>> guitargeek (Johnny Matthews ) 2005/07/30 18:37:04 CEST
>>> 
>>>  Modified files:
>>>    blender/source/blender/src editmesh_tools.c
>>> 
>>>  Log:
>>>  Edgeslide Mouse Movement Fix
>>> 
>>>  Edgeslide movement is now controlled by a line drawn between the 
>>> endpoints of the 2 control rail edges. Edgeslide will
>>>  try to pick a control rail pair (will color green ATM) if you don't like 
>>> the edge it picked, use the mouse wheel up to change it.
>>>  have to code mouse wheel down to go other direction still. Just ran out 
>>> of time ATM and wanted to get this in for movement testing.
>> 
>> 
>> Ehm... Mouse wheel? Is there any Blender user out there who uses a
>> *Wheel mouse*? That must mean completely crippled hands after a
>> year of usage...
>> 
>> I don't think using the mouse wheel as an exclusive control for
>> something is appropriate...
>> 
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