[Bf-funboard] Toolbox design

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The discussion goes in a confusing direction. The purpose of the UI  
redesign is to provide a consistant & coherent method for users to  
locate settings, options and tools.

Settings (like OSA, or other render options) are not going to be in  
pulldown menus, nor in the new toolbox.For that the button panels are  
for.

The new toolbox should only provide a subset of the currently available  
pulldown menu options, completely limited to the set of commands that  
*actually* work within the context.

So:

- only commands (and displaying optional hotkey)
- 100% context sensitive
- meant to provide info on the current context (modes/states) and  
what's possible within that.

A toolbox for a IpoWindow will differ from 3DWindow. We even will have  
one in ButtonsWindow, listing all options currently available there,  
even when it's only the F4-F10 hotkeys.

Matt committed his pulldown proposal in Tuhopuu, I will do this in  
bf-blender soon (weekend). I will check on the code, and make sure it's  
all (technically) transparant, so the options (commands) can be reused  
for hotkeys, pulldowns, buttons, and new toolbox. Even Python!

-Ton-



On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 20:17 Europe/Amsterdam, Thorsten Wilms  
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:55:17AM +1000, Luke Wenke wrote:
>>> Autocomplete semi-commandline
>>>
>>> Like mentioned before in some post of mine, there could be a  
>>> textfield
>>> somewhere on the toolbox menu. Starting with the first key entered,
>>> possible completions would be shown in a list next to the field.
>>> Like "Add" "Append" "Apply Size/Rot" for "A".
>> =============================
>> I think it is much easier for either the person to click on the item,  
>> or use
>> the hotkey (which would be listed next to the item name) As far as  
>> changing
>> OSA goes, it is probably quicker to go to the display buttons. (that
>> involves 2 clicks.... or 3, if OSA wasn't currently enabled).
>
> Changing OSA setting can involve bringing a buttons window to view  
> (you could
> a window maximized or be on a screen with no buttons window), clicking  
> display
> tab and finaly use the osa buttons. And in most cases you will have to  
> travel
> across a huge part of the screen. Compare to that the time it will  
> take to enter
> space,o,s,a,1,6,enter for soemone with just average typing skills.
>
> I think this is to be the fastest and most powerful way of accessing  
> all blender
> functionality that you don't use often enough to memorize a single  
> letter
> shortcut, but that you know of with name.
>
>
> But I sure hope to hear more opinions about it.
>
> ---
> Thorsten
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