[Bf-committers] Getting the key down information

[Stealth Apprentice]

My spaceball patch is pretty good for this.

With a small modification (pretty clear from the code)
you can make my code pan/raise/dolly within the move
loop. Right now it looks for spaceball inputs, all
you'd have to do is assign one key to be the
"spaceball" key, and as long as it's held down,
instead of the mouse doing the middle mouse thing, it
could do x/y/z translation. Or you could toggle the
mouse mode... Or you could support WASD while
"mouselooking" in the normal middle mouse mode. I
agree with Ed that you want to stay away from wacky
chords, on the other hand it's most excellent to be
able to stay in the Blender's look-at loop.

The reason it's desirable to stay in that loop instead
of popping out, and reentering in a different mode is
that Blender actually seems to take 1/4 second to
notice that the camera is moving. If you stay in the
loop, camera motion is buttery smooth, but if you
allow a drop out to the main loop, it starts feeling
stuttery.

(That's why the spaceball patch has a 1/10s delay
before exiting the look around mode)


--- trip somewhere <trip0o at gmail.com> wrote:

> just pressing one key would work for now, like just
> one command for
> direction.. and have access to the mouse movements
> to swivel the view.
> The main idea is to have a clean smooth control of
> the view unlike fly
> mode..
> 
> Also it takes away the need for constant stop and go
> mouse movemets
> and pressing of y x z to adjust the camera
> 
> On 1/9/06, Ed Halley <ed at halley.cc> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ben wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell, blender is built around
> having only one key/mouse
> > > movement occur at the same time, except for the
> modifier keys
> > > (shift/ctrl etc)... is there any way to get all
> the keys pressed at any
> > > given time?
> >
> > There is no truly portable way.  Plus, you
> shouldn't assume that all
> > platforms would even have that capability.  Plus,
> you shouldn't assume
> > that all users can press and hold multiple keys. 
> Disabled people have
> > software that can help them hold Shift+R but not
> N+Q+R.
> >
> > Try to use keystroke controls like most windowed
> applications, not
> > key-hold controls like Quake or Doom.  Just my
> advice.
> >
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