[Bf-committers] Mo' layer goodness

[David Bryant]

I pointed out some time ago that the standard layer panels expand in length 
well in a vertical layout but in the horizontal it doesn't work well. 
Blender needs a popup scrolling window for the layer system.Giving it a 
space like the outliner would serve well but you would always have to revert 
to that space when it's used which is inconvinient.
Another option is to make it a part of the outliner with a button to switch 
between outliner view and layer view since many users like myself  keep the 
outliner open oftentimes. But I still think a popup scrolling window should 
be coded for future use because Blender's feature base will continue to 
grow.If not for the layer system, something else. That's another one of my 
openGL projects in conjunction with this project.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Holcomb" <bholcomb at mak.com>
To: <bf-committers at blender.org>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 5:21 PM
Subject: [Bf-committers] Mo' layer goodness


> found 2 more cents under the sofa:
>
> Iterating over a linked list without needing to do the check is a much
> better way to do it as you pointed out.  The point being that there is a
> more flexible way to do this than the way we are doing it.  One thing to
> consider is how the user interacts with this new linked list layer
> system.  The current version presents 20 buttons, will we present 999
> buttons?  or a dropdown, or a layer space, or make it part of the
> outliner, etc, etc, etc. I think this is definitly an IRC discussion to
> be had during a sunday meeting or post meeting for a small team.
>
> The sunday meetings are at 10:00 am EST for those who wish to attend.
>
> cheers,
>
> Bob
>
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