[Bf-docboard] Re: suggested definitions for the Blender glossary: active, selected, EditMode, etc.

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Tim,

thanks for your suggestion. I agree with you that the 'mode which has no 
name' could use a name. However, I'm not sure that WholeObjectMode is a 
very useful one. Simply Objectmode might work as well, I suppose. Let's 
hear what the others think.

Cheers,

Bart


Tim Howe wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I would like to suggest four definitions for the Blender glossary. I have
>appended the four definitions below, and I have also attached them.
>
>But first, I would like to suggest that the Mode That Has No Name, the Mode
>That Is Not EditMode, be given a name. The name I would suggest is
>WholeObjectMode. That's a bit long, but history appears to indicate that the
>name is not destined for wide usage.
>
>Thank you for your attention.
>
>- Tim Howe
>
>
>
>
>
>active
>  the object that is in EditMode or is immediately switchable (usually by
>TAB) to EditMode
>  No more than one object is active at any moment. Typically, the most
>recently selected object is active.
>
>EditMode
>  the mode for making intra-object graphical changes
>  Blender has exactly two modes for making changes graphically. EditMode
>allows intra-object changes (moving, scaling, rotating, deleting, and other
>operations on selected vertices in the active object). By contrast,
>WholeObjectMode allows inter-object changes (operations on selected
>objects).
>
>selected
>  an object chosen to be a target of operations (in WholeObjectMode)
>  At any moment, each object is deselected (inert) or selected or active
>(which means selected, and also editable at the vertex level).
>
>WholeObjectMode
>  the mode for making inter-object graphical changes
>  Blender has exactly two modes for making changes graphically.
>WholeObjectMode allows inter-object changes (moving, scaling, rotating,
>deleting, and other operations on selected objects). By contrast, EditMode
>allows intra-object changes (operations on selected vertices in the active
>object).
>
>  
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>       active
>
>     the object that is in EditMode <#EditMode> or is immediately
>     switchable (usually by TAB) to EditMode
>
>     No more than one object is active at any moment. Typically, the
>     most recently selected <#selected> object is active.
>
>
>       EditMode
>
>     the mode for making intra-object graphical changes
>
>     Blender has exactly two modes for making changes graphically.
>     EditMode allows intra-object changes (moving, scaling, rotating,
>     deleting, and other operations on selected <#selected> vertices in
>     the active <#active> object). By contrast, WholeObjectMode
>     <#WholeObjectMode> allows inter-object changes (operations on
>     selected objects).
>
>
>       selected
>
>     an object chosen to be a target of operations (in WholeObjectMode
>     <#WholeObjectMode>)
>
>     At any moment, each object is deselected (inert) or selected or
>     active <#active> (which means selected, and also editable at the
>     vertex level).
>
>
>       WholeObjectMode
>
>     the mode for making inter-object graphical changes
>
>     Blender has exactly two modes for making changes graphically.
>     WholeObjectMode allows inter-object changes (moving, scaling,
>     rotating, deleting, and other operations on selected <#selected>
>     objects). By contrast, EditMode <#EditMode> allows intra-object
>     changes (operations on selected vertices in the active <#active>
>     object).
>