[Bf-funboard] Panel Behaviour improvements + tooltips for hidden panel behaviour

[Brecht Van Lommel]

It's only possible to do these changes in the C code, it wouldn't work
from Python. The only suggestion that I would consider quite difficult
to implement is the scrollbar, autohiding is not so simple to
implement and making it smaller will not work for all editors
(timeline draws number on it). But also for tablet users a small
scrollbar may be difficult to hit.

Brecht.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Bol Bib <bollebib at hotmail.com> wrote:
> is there anyway of doing the stuff I proposed via Python?
> Would it be easy? Hard?
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> I'm only a beginner ( very very beginner)
> But I want to improve the way of working with the panels.
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> I fear they are C based though.
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> From: bollebib at hotmail.com
> To: bf-funboard at blender.org
> Subject: Panel Behaviour improvements + tooltips for hidden panel behaviour
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:47:58 +0200
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> First off all a big shoutout for the developpers on the Blender 2.64 release,it's great,congrats.
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> I especially like the "minor" feature of CTRL+Clicking on panels which results in closing all the other panels save the one clicked.
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> This is but one of the small things you could do to improve the toolshelves but it's an important one.
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> I usually suggest big things should happen to the shelves (I still want those in some ways) but this time I will suggest a few more small things to improve it ever so slightly
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> 1) Make the Scroll bar indicator less wide
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>  (maybe even nonexistant if you could disable them?)
> ->right now when the scrollbar is invisible it still keeps that width of the scrollbar free,it's a loss of space.
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> 2) Cycle through the panel stack at press of button
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> Use "page up and page down" (or something similar) to quickly go up and down the stack of panels,WITH the current CTRL+ Click behaviour.
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> ->every time you press the shortcut the previous or next panel should be opened ,and the previously active one closed.
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> 3)I did not know I could zoom in on panels . I came upon it by accident. I suspect not a lot of users do know about this or other hidden features.
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>  Maybe you should advertise this more.
> ->provide a tooltip or rightclick menu showing the things you can do with a panel (on any panel) ith there respective shortcuts.
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> a few things I found by accident,sometimes
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> - press a or enter(=open and close)
> - press + or - (=zoom in and out)
> - press home (=reset zoom)
> - press ctrl+click (=close all other panels)
> -press F5 to flip the toolshelves to the other side
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> and if you decide to incorporate the above idea
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> -press page up/down to cycle through the stack
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> It's a minor thing,and i'm sure these are documented somewhere online,but they still are moslt hidden functionality (like Shape key lists resizing with CTRL+mousewheel)
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> Blender needs to advertise these superhandy features by at least having a way to find out about them IN the program itself
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