[Bf-committers] [24935] trunk/blender/source/blender/ editors: First changes to implement the 2.5 snapping proposal ( discussed back in May and recently on IRC).

[Martin Poirier]

--- On Thu, 11/26/09, GSR <gsr.b3d at infernal-iceberg.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> theeth at yahoo.com
> (2009-11-26 at 2047.56 +0100):
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Theeth/Snapping
> 
> Being a writer myself, I can imagine the nightmare trying
> to explain
> the highly confusing terminology, and a non standard
> keyboard
> operation, in an article or book (or in classes), just as
> other things
> have been pointed before. "Click" is "pointer click" and
> has been for
> decades, modifier keys change other things and just that.

Modifier keys have been used as normal keys in games for decades, there's nothing especially new here.

> There must be a different word that can be used (tap?) and
> even so you
> declare mouse motions are allowed (so it becomes a drag in
> that case).

Actually, it's similar to a button click where it's usually ok to press the mouse button, move a bit, then release, as long as you're still over the same button.

Tap might be a better word, sure, that's up for discussion.

Martin


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