[Bf-committers] Autokey and 3D viewport outline

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I'm very much for good comminicating consitent UIs. Drawing blinking lights or red or orange outlines in windows are not part of that... we can do much better. :)

No tool should take over drawing the windowmanager this way. Not as an option, not as userpref either.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 9 Oct, 2012, at 11:21, Gianmichele Mariani wrote:

> To me a simple red border around the 3d view is the best solution.
> Also we already use this kind of indication on the camera when we
> enable the "Lock camera to view" option.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Brecht Van Lommel
> <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>> It was made optional now in svn, but I think that does not really
>> address the issue. It's fine to have an indicator that autokey is on,
>> it just doesn't need to look as if something bad is happening. Red
>> should be reserved for errors. There is no need for a warning/error
>> here, just good feedback about what is happening.
>> 
>> For example improve the blinking so that it's more like the report
>> message blinking in the info header (which is better visible), show
>> the autokey icon in the 3D view header or next to the object name,
>> color the header a bit yellow, or show a report that X keyframes were
>> inserted after transform is done. I don't know which combination works
>> best but the red border is just too much and the current blinking is
>> not very visible by itself.
>> 
>> Brecht.
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Francesco Siddi
>> <francesco.siddi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> a new feature has recently been introduced in Blender: when Autokey is
>>> turned on and some object/armature transformation is performed, every 3D
>>> viewport gets a red outline and a message reminding the user of the fact
>>> the a keyframe will be created at the end of the transformation.
>>> 
>>> After talking with other users, it seems clear that this feature should at
>>> least be optional, if not off by default. It's quite distracting to work
>>> with a flashing outline all the time.
>>> 
>>> Thank you!
>>> Francesco
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