[Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

[Julio Iglesias]

I would be inclined to have an option to automatically launch a "F6
popup widget" at mouse position, because it doesn't get any closer
than that.

And I agree with Knapp: we should be able to move and close it,
because quite often we need to rotate the view and review the result
before accepting the operation.
Right now it feels a bit silly having to rotate view, press F6, zoom
view, press F6, etc... :D

Maybe it could be an addon.


Regards.









On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>> Hi, all;
>>
>> I asked myself:
>>
>> "Why does the operator panel appear in the tool shelf
>>    although the operator has been called from the
>>    properties sidebar ?"
>>
>> At least on a large display that can be really far far away :)
>>
>> I have an idea for the case where an operator is called by
>> click on a button from within a Panel:  Add a panel option
>> to specify where the operator panel shall show up:
>>
>> - Bottom of Tool Shelf (default)
>> - Bottom of Properties sidebar
>> - Bottom of current window (tool shelf or properties bar, ...)
>> - Directly Below current panel (maybe not a good idea)
>>
>> If the operator was not called from within a panel, then
>> fallback to defaults. Regardless of where it appears, the
>> operator panel disappears when the next operator is called.
>>
>> Benefits:
>>
>> - Operator options can appear very near to where the
>>    operator was called, thus get much more awareness
>> - less moving around on large screens to change operator
>>    options.
>>
>> Drawbacks:
>>
>> - operator panel no longer appears at one fixed location
>>
>> However letting the operator panel appear close to our
>> current focus of work could possibly be more beneficial
>> than relying on operator options to always appear in the
>> lower left corner of the screen.
>>
>> What do you think about that ?
>>
>> -gaia-
>
> If it functions like the F6 button then it needs to be made so you can
> grab the header and move it and it remembers where it was. I know it
> currently opens where the mouse is. It currently works but is a bit
> annoying because it is always self closing.
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