[Bf-committers] Search Field for browsing Shapekeys

[Juan Pablo Bouza]

I don't know about the design things, but +1 for dialogs not closing so easily in general in Blender. 

> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:37:17 +0100
> From: codemanx at gmx.de
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Search Field for browsing Shapekeys
> 
> The popup closes too easily indeed (if you click on search list entry 
> outside of the popup's rectangle), but one can add an empty column, 
> scale it's height and add a separator to match the search list size to 
> workaround this problem:
> 
> http://i.imagebanana.com/img/nexx4hvt/prop_search_shapekeys.png
> 
> I know this is against Blender's design concept, but what about adding 
> another popup type, which requires to click either on Abort or OK, and 
> doesn't close on other user input? For certain situations this would be 
> quite useful.
> 
> 
> Am 24.11.2012 06:43, schrieb Juan Pablo Bouza:
> >
> > Thanks Campbell!! :D
> >
> > I'll check it out later today!
> >
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:40:24 +1100
> >> From: ideasman42 at gmail.com
> >> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Search Field for browsing Shapekeys
> >>
> >> committed r52529. though there was a conflict with having this
> >> popup-within-a-popup, so I had to stop using the redo popup for this
> >> operator.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Bassam Kurdali <bassam at urchn.org> wrote:
> >>> +1 yeah, that's a great idea for any list type menu that can grow to
> >>> large numbers.
> >>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:28 -0300, Juan Pablo Bouza wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> A year ago or so I asked Campbell to add a search field for adding scene clips in the VSE, cause I was working with lots of scenes in the same blend file, and the rectangle list that appeared when I wanted to browse a scene exceeded the dimensions of my screen.
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, now I'm having the same problem with shapekeys... I'm currently using a workflow for facial rigging where I need 50 or more shapekeys. When I need to call the "blend from shape" operator, a huge rectangle appears listing all of the shapes. These is really not practical, and it is a huge problem if you don't have the necessary screen resolution.
> >>>>
> >>>> So, It would be great if a search field could be added for browsing the shapekeys in the "blend from shape" menu, just like there is now for clip browsing in the VSE.
> >>>>
> >>>> See you!
> >>>>
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