[Bf-funboard] Toggling proportional edit during transform

[Hadrien Brissaud]

Thanks a lot for your insight David. As I understand it, there would be a
risk for some kind of conflict between shortcuts contained inside a tool,
and "global", viewport-scope shortcuts ?
It is delicate to grasp for a non-developer, however there would also be UI
work to do here, so I'd be glad to submit a few ideas myself. As a lazy
modeler, I feel this is worth thinking about. Now what does this represent
from a coding perspective ?

Hadrien


On 12 July 2013 14:41, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:

> there are several different ways to add proportional edit during
> transform.. here are a few of them..
>
> (1) a quick hack that hardcodes the default "o" hotkey to toggle
> proportional edit during transform, just like x/y/z toggles -- the problem
> is, this will not match user-keybinds, and it just fixes this one request,
> not this category of requests..
>
> (2) add keybind contexts for each modal-operator -- cleaner, but compounds
> an already compounding problem, that changing the keybind now requires
> changing it in more places. it also requires a method to determine which
> actions are viable during a modal operator, and exposing modal-operator
> behavior toggles to keybinds
>
> (3) allow keybinds to "flow up" out of modal operators into their
> containing context, just like they flow out of editor-types into the
> window-context. This means, much like the way g/s/r are usable during modal
> operators to switch between those operators, any existing keybinds would
> work (unless the modal operator over-rode those keybinds with local
> behavior)... though some keybinds would cancel the modal operator. This
> could be combined with (2)
>
> and here is a consideration..
>
> (a) currently during modal operators the header-controls are replaced with
> modal-operator- status-text... this means the proportional edit toggle is
> not visible. (1) could add proportional to modal-status-text, but this
> seems an untenable pattern to continue for long. (2,3) suggest a pattern
> which would move modal-status-text elsewhere, allowing the existing header
> controls to be visible during modal-edit
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