[Bf-taskforce25] View 2D API - Proposal

[Joshua Leung]

To clarify the confusion here, by no means am I suggesting that we rule out
MMB and have only scrollbars. We currently already have scrollbars, though
not obvious (in appearance), they do perform similar functions.

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Wahooney <wahooney at wahooney.net> wrote:

>  I believe that the proposed scroll bars are more of an indicator that
> there is more to scroll to than a replacement of the MMB functionality.
>
> This assumption is based on William Reynish's talk at BConf.
>
> Domino Marama wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:26 +1300, Joshua Leung wrote:
>
>  Are scrollbars the best option? One of the things I like about Blender
> is the minimum mouse movement, and scrollbars are a step away from this.
> Middle mouse button panning is sometimes the right option (when you can
> already see the part you want in the centre of the screen) but sometimes
> is not (when you want to scroll an area into view).
>
> If the edge of an area could trigger an automatic scroll with a held
> middle click, this would allow scrolling more of that side into view.
> When the desired portion comes into view, the mouse pointer is still in
> the right area to work on that rather than being at a different side as
> scrollbars and middle mouse panning causes.
>
>
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