@Bassam: that's exactly how it works in BMesh Daniel Salazar 3Developer.com
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Bassam Kurdali <bkurd...@freefactory.org> wrote: > One of the things that makes the softimage (for example) knife 'better' > is that you can continue to navigate the view while in the knife > mode.(imagine cutting e.g. a wrinkle around a character's trouser leg). > I had a brief misunderstanding when 2.5 'non blocking/non modal' stuff > was announced that this meant that this artist friendly functionality > was coming to blender (also useful for e.g. circle select), however my > hopes were dashed when I realized 'non blocking' meant 'artists now have > to redundantly hold down keys on their keyboards' (joke) > > In seriousness: if this is at all possible given the 2.5 architecture > it would be a big increase in functionality. > > On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 07:53 -0400, Howard Trickey wrote: >> In fact I've been reading the bmesh knife code recently, on my project to >> help close out the bmesh TODOs, and the code right now there may be doing >> some closer to what you want: hitting k takes you into a modal mode where >> successive left clicks make connected cuts; hitting e ends a cut and lets >> you start a new series; holding down CNTRL turns midpoint snapping on, >> holding down SHIFT turns all snapping off (by default, edge and vertex >> snapping are on); and using the middle mouse button temporarily takes you >> out of cutting mode so you spin the model. >> >> Who knows how long it will take to get bmesh into trunk (though I am trying >> hard to contribute to making that sooner rather than later), so it is >> probably worthwhile to fix the old version now, but it would be good to >> settle on similar behavior between old and new so that it will be easier for >> users to adapt to the change to bmesh when it comes. >> >> 2011/7/17 Αντώνης Ρυακιωτάκης <kal...@gmail.com> >> >> > Hi, before doing unnecessary work maybe you should check with bmesh >> > too? If it's going to be merged anytime maybe it's better to work >> > there? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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