+1 to Martin's proposal. I agree that this has been long overdue, and could be useful for a number of modal operators which need to terminate on such events.
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Martin Poirier <the...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Charles Wardlaw <cward...@marchentertainment.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> In the latest SVN build, when you zoom it no longer >> releases after you let go of the mouse button. I set >> my zoom to Control + Alt + LMB. I can zoom just fine, >> but when I release the mouse button the zoom stays on, >> turning into a rotate if I let go of the alt key. >> >> I fixed this by modifying the 3D Zoom modal to release on >> any mouse click, not just middle (which is the default), and >> now it behaves "normally." This is similar to the >> issue where strokes in sculpting continue after releasing >> the mouse. >> >> If the user changes the zoom shortcut, it makes sense for >> that change to cascade to a release of any of the buttons >> required to begin the zoom operator. Is there a way to >> do that? I don't think a lot of users are going to >> understand that they have to modify the press and release >> just to get one perceived key map to change. > > I think the best solution in this case is to introduce a special event type > called "Invoke Event", usable only in modal keymaps. Invoke Event would be > the event type that resulted in the operator's invocation (it would be stored > in the Operator instance. > > With this, modal keymaps would directly adjust themselves when operators are > remapped or if they are mapped to different events at the same time. > > Of course, that wouldn't cover all cases, but I think it would take care of > the majority. > > Transform already uses a variation of that internally for the manipulator and > tweak mode. > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
