[Bf-funboard] Active but unselected (was: Object color proposal)

Thorsten Wilms bf-funboard@blender.org
Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:26:54 +0200


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:25:13PM +1000, Luke Wenke wrote:
> 
> > To be tactless and blunt, knock this crap off.  We've already agreed (I
> > thought) that states like "non-selected active" shouldn't exist.
> But they do. They appear as black wireframes with magenta centres (rather
> than yellow centres for non-selected non-active objects). For lights, all
> unselected objects are yellow. (Rather than the active unselected ones being
> magenta in the centre).
>

Like you explained, there is an active but unselected state.

The reason for this is that blender remembers the last active object. So that 
it can reasign active state on selection of all objects. And knows something 
to do on TAB without anything selected.

I see it as an internal "helper" state, something that shouldn't be shown to 
the user directly. Because something like active but unselected is just the 
right thing to confuse users. So please no indication of this special state.


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Thorsten