[Bf-committers] Patch: A tiny bit of Layer manager

[Campbell Barton]

Full loops? Bad JuJu, surely a running total of user and selected lauers 
could be generated on drawing and stored in each windows view3d (since 
each windows view layers can be different)

of course this is something for intrr to look into.

Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Patch rejected. For every layer button it draws (20 buttons per window) 
> it goes over the entire list of objects in scene.
> 
> Next time; add in tracker and wait for your turn please.
> 
> -Ton-
> 
> On 23 Mar, 2007, at 10:51, Alexander Ewering wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as I'm increasingly working with 3D stuff again in recent days, I've
>> *really* come to miss the layer manager in official CVS.
>> So, I've ported at least a tiny bit of it - in my opinion, one of the 
>> most
>> useful things: LAYER BUTTON COLORS.
>>
>> - All layer buttons (3d view header, moveto-menu, object buttons) get
>>   drawn in different color shades depending on:
>>
>>   - if they are empty or not
>>   - if an object in them is selected/active or not
>>
>> This already dramatically improves workflow, as you can instantly see:
>>
>>   - in which layer(s) the current object is
>>   - to which layer(s) you can safely move an object (empty ones)
>>   - which layers you don't need to care about (empty)
>>
>> For your pleasure and consideration, here's the patch against current CVS
>> :-)
>>
>> http://pub.instinctive.de/layercolors.diff
>>
>> (I didn't submit it to the patch tracker because it's already full of 
>> great
>> stuff that gets ignored...)
>>
>> Here's a screenshot:
>>
>> http://pub.instinctive.de/layercolors.png
>>
>> | alexander ewering              instinctive mediaworks
>> | xx-mail.com/instinctive     http://www.instinctive.de
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