[Bf-committers] 3D Cursor and Border Select

Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com zanqdo at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 18:12:04 CET 2012


Damir, if you want to start a discussion about selection please do it
in another thread

cheers

Daniel Salazar
patazstudio.com



On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Damir Prebeg <blend.factory at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ton,
>
> Yes, I know that I can select an outliner item with right click but
> that's not what I want to point out. You say that LMB in Blender means
> action. But isn't selection of an object some sort of action?
>
> Problem for Beginner(TM) is not only that Blender uses RMB for
> selection, problem is that we have different mouse behaviors for
> different window types in the same application. I see that every time
> when I try to teach somebody basics of Blender. They all have problem
> with "stupid jumping red-white circle with cross in the middle".
>
> When I've started with Blender it was pretty hard for me to get use to
> that right click selection so I always switched to LMB. I use tablet
> now so beside other tablet problems that's not an issue for me any
> more.
>
> To cut the... If we want RMB to be default selection button, let's
> make it default in all window types. But personally, I sill don't see
> any reason whatsoever not to use LMB as every other app on the market.
>
> On 28 February 2012 20:22, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> And Beginner(TM) doesn't understand why he have to use RMB to select
>>>> object in 3D View and LMB to select that same object in Outliner. Why?
>>
>> The outliner can show anything, from scenes to bones and renderlayers.
>> Every item in this outliner is selectable with RMB. This allows operations on it.
>>
>> Using the LMB in blender means "Action". That's in the outliner many things, like enter editmode (on mesh icon) or drag stuff away from it, or open/close hierarchies, or selection of objects.
>>
>> This selection operation is just like using a button. It can be anything in fact, it's a generic system (hardcoded now) that can be extended freely. Could be keymap or python once...
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>>
>> On 28 Feb, 2012, at 13:54, Carsten Wartmann wrote:
>>
>>> Am 28.02.2012 09:17, schrieb Damir Prebeg:
>>>> When Beginner(TM) finally accepts RMB, he tries to border/circle
>>>> select objects and he press B/C and RMB to select more objects...
>>>> ups... wait... you can't use RMB to border/circle select objects, you
>>>> have to use good old LMB to do that. Why?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>> And Beginner(TM) doesn't understand why he have to use RMB to select
>>>> object in 3D View and LMB to select that same object in Outliner. Why?
>>>
>>> And why you border select in the Filewindow with LMB! And select with LMB.
>>>
>>> In old Blenders this was also RMB (like in 3D View).
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Carsten
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