[Bf-committers] Re: [Bf-blender-cvs] CVS commit: blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern scene.c blender/source/blender/blenloader/intern readfile.c blender/source/blender/makesdna DNA_scene_types.h blender/source/blender/src buttons_scene.c header_time.c toets.c

[Matt Ebb]

Hi Martin,

Sorry to reply about this a bit late. This feature seems pretty  
decent, I can see how it could be useful, but I really don't think  
the 'steps' number field belongs on the timeline. The timeline header  
is meant to be kept pretty simple, for quick handy access to commonly  
used things. Setting this steps property isn't something that would  
happen very often and for things like timing animation to music,  
would be set up at the beginning of a project then left. It doesn't  
relate to any of the other timeline controls either, none of them are  
to do with the uparrow/downarrow jumping between chunks of frames, so  
it doesn't make that much sense to put it there on its own either.

I think it'd be better to remain only in the scene buttons, though it  
should be a straight number field, not a slider. Number fields are  
best used when you want to represent an arbitrary value (such as  
this). Sliders are best to represent a proportion or a percentage.

cheers

Matt



On 17/04/2006, at 02:50 AM, Martin Poirier wrote:

> theeth (Martin Poirier) 2006/04/16 18:50:26 CEST
>   === Animation ===
>
>   Patch #4044 patch to change the step when changing frame with up  
> or down arrow keys.
>
>   This adds a per Scene setting to specify the number of frames  
> skipped by the up and down arrow.
>   This setting can be changed in the Timeline header and in the  
> Anim/Playback section of the Scene settings.
>
>   Upon loading a file without that setting or creating a new scene,  
> it is set to 10
>
>   Also fixed the Start and End frame buttons in the Scene buttons  
> to do a proper refresh.