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

[Campbell Barton]

I take that back, the layer usage and selection state is not view 
context. It could be stored Globally or in the scene.

Campbell Barton wrote:
> 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
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