[Bf-committers] Improving Blender's keymap: a proposal

[Nathan Vegdahl]

> But when you click the side switch mapped to MMB while hovering, it's
> still MMB if you choose to make contact with the surface, correct?

Hmm... actually, I'm not sure.  I presumed it would just count as both
buttons (LMB + MMB), but you could be correct.  I'll give it a test
the next time I'm on my work computer.

--Nathan


On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahh, everything makes sense now! What you say is exactly right. This
> Linux behavior can probably be mimicked on Windows too with the proper
> driver settings.
>
> But when you click the side switch mapped to MMB while hovering, it's
> still MMB if you choose to make contact with the surface, correct?
> It's not that hovering has no pressure, the pressure is just zero. A
> regular mouse has no pressure. Right now the code treats both no
> pressure & zero pressure as pressure = 1, which isn't really correct.
> One of the things I'm working on :).
>
> Back to your original point, a hovering pen has zero pressure and
> can't be used to draw. Totally agree.
>
> Sorry for veering away from the keymaps topic and into tablet-land!
> It's just where my head's been for the past several weeks.
>
> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com> wrote:
>> I feel like we are still miscommunicating.
>>
>> It sounds like your setup is:
>> Stylus tip = LMB
>> Hold down side-button-1 + stylus tip = MMB
>> Hold down side-button-2 + stylus tip = RMB
>>
>> In other words, you use the side buttons as _modifiers_ for the tip of
>> the stylus.  Holding them down changes the meaning of the tip.
>>
>> Whereas my setup (and the default on Linux) is:
>> Stylus tip = LMB
>> Side-button-1 = MMB
>> Side-button-2 = RMB
>>
>> The side buttons in this case are buttons unto themselves, they are
>> _not_ modifiers for the stylus tip.  All I do is click a side button,
>> and it acts as a mouse button click.  No need to tap the stylus tip to
>> the tablet at all.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> So with the setup I use, MMB and RMB have no pressure sensitivity,
>> because they have absolutely nothing to do with the tip of the stylus
>> where the pressure sensitivity is.
>>
>> --Nathan