[Bf-committers] Weekly Blender developer meeting minutes - 31 May 2015

[TARDIS Maker]

Sadly I don't know of any good ones, but would it be possible to make a
simple python script that does it instead? I don't know how complex it
would be, but I don't think it would be overly complex. The nice thing
about that, would be (depending on the graphics library used) that it would
be cross platform also.

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 4:28 PM, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:

>  From the rather rudimentary look I gave at the other screencast keys
> addon a while ago, it appeared to suffer from all the same major issues
> as the main screencast keys..
>
> I do kind of like having blender specific info like last operator etc.
> displayed, but I'd prefer to have modal keypresses and display in non-3D
> views. I've yet to find any external keypress displaying program (for
> linux) I'm happy with.. So unless anyone has any suggestions it seems
> I'm stuck with screencast keys for the time being :P
>
> On 05/31/15 13:14, Gaia wrote:
> > Here is a link which lists some reasons why the tool has been removed:
> >
> >
> http://www.blendernation.com/2014/07/02/screencast-keys-addon-is-removed-b3d/
> >
> > You still can find the "original" tool here:
> >
> >
> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/trunk/py/scripts/addons/space_view3d_screencast_keys.py
> >
> > And here is an alternative development:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/jedihe/b3d_screencast_keys/blob/master/space_view3d_screencast_keys.py
> >
> > I am not sure if the alternative works better or not.
> > Both scripts seem to work on current Blender versions
> > with the known limitations. But i can neither tell if it is
> > a good idea to use them or not, nor did i do any in depth
> > tests.
> >
> > -gaia-
> >
> > On 31.05.2015 21:51, TARDIS Maker wrote:
> >> I guess the devs where getting a bunch of bug reports for it and stuff,
> and
> >> they weren't able to take care of them. The main problems with it are
> that
> >> it really only works for the 3D view, and I also heard somewhere that it
> >> was inaccurately stating keys, I can't confirm that though. I guess it's
> >> also hard to maintain. But there are programs that should do a better
> job
> >> of it, although I haven't found any that actually look nice (but I
> haven't
> >> looked very hard). There's also the option of doing it in the editing
> >> stage, but this would be way too complex except for extremely simple
> things.
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:21 PM, TARDIS Maker <tardismodeler at gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> That was removed in 2.72 (I believe) because it has situations where
> it
> >>>> doesn't work. You can still find it online, I believe, or you can get
> it
> >>>> out of an older version of Blender.
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks for the info. Perhaps we should remove all the other things that
> >>> have bugs? :-)
> >>> Really, this was a good tool. Just because it has corner cases where it
> >>> fails does not mean it should be removed. It means it should be worked
> on.
> >>> IMOHO of course.
> >>>
> >>>
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