[Bf-taskforce25] Small diversion for Blender 2.5

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Since we have a centralized queue with event handling, you can grab all 
events and playback again. However! A lot of Blender code still depends 
on window-size coordinates (so you cannot change screen sizes) and uses 
opengl for operations like selecting (not guaranteed to result in 
same).

This is BTW also the reason why a real "construction history" is not on 
our target list.

Oh, and dont forget about timing issues, events are being accumulated 
in a queue while things happen (operators, redrws), so its well 
possible you get some events wrongly interpreted.

Of course, one can try to do a tutorial playback mode on a same system 
with same window size... would be good validation of current code. :)

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 12 Dec, 2008, at 17:55, Kent Mein wrote:

> This is on topic but may not seem like it. (I think so at least)
>
> It's kind of a feature request for the new windowmanger stuff.
> I keep meaning to sit down and dig through the new code but have
> been pretty busy with work.  I've compiled it and played with it but
> thats it.
>
> So anyway my question/wish is it would be really nice if the new
> gui code could also allow us to create a "tutorial mode" for blender.
>
> If you haven't tried it check out alice: (http://www.alice.org/)
> it has an interesting "tutorial" built right into it.  Its not
> perfect  (there are some frustrating things about it.)
> It is pretty slick though.
>
> The key things I like about it, it lets you mask over most of
> the interface execpt for whatever the tutorial is focusing on.
> It has a history with buttons to navigate the history
> and it has postit note looking pop up windows that tell you what you
> should be doing next.
>
> The reason I bring this up, is it would be cool to do, but the
> interface for it is somewhat outside of how we want the blender
> interface to work I think.  So its good to keep in mind while
> working on things.
>
> Going further off on a tangent, this talk about mixing games and
> applications is an interesting read:
> http://lostgarden.com/2008/10/princess-rescuing-application-slides.html
> If when someone makes an inapplication blender tutorial...
> I Know this seems off base but read it ;)
> It even mentions around page 48 or so Maya and how this presentation
> could apply to it.
>
> Kent
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