On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Ralph Versteegen <teeem...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 1) whenever S is the active tool, arrow keys scroll the sprite >>> 2) when S is active, press space/mouse button to start scrolling, and press >>> again to stop >> This seems interesting. I'd like to combine it with : >>> 3) when S is active, press and hold space/mouse button and press arrow keys >>> to >>> scroll >> So that you press space/MB to start,arrows to alter direction, space/MB to >> stop. > > Isn't that exactly 2)? By "start scrolling", I meant "use arrow keys > to scroll". I think that you're talking about inertial scrolling (or > thought that I was), which I can't see as useful. I meant.. well, see below.
> >>> 4) whatever tool is active, hold down S and press arrow keys to scroll. S is >>> temporarily made the active tool, and the previous tool becomes active again >>> when S is released. >>> >>> I don't see how 1) could work with the mouse (note that the mouse can't >>> currently be used to scroll at all). >> Drag the image to scroll it? > > In the sprite editor moving the mouse is mostly equivalent to pressing > arrow keys, so I was working under that assumption. So dragging the > image to scroll it was 3). But we could treat the two input methods > differently. Then my preference is your suggestion: 1) for arrow keys, > plus scrolling by dragging with the mouse. (Having to press both S and > space to start scrolling sounds annoying to me). > >>> My preference is either 1) or 4) >> >> IMO that resolves to 1. Because depending on simultaneous detection of >>>1 non-modifier keys is not portable between keyboards AFAIK > > Ah! Good point. But that also argues against holding down space to > scroll, doesn't it? Yes, I don't like the idea of holding down space to scroll; rather just press it to toggle continuous scrolling (4 steps/second?), and use cursor keys to adjust scroll direction (not inertially, just to choose from the 8 possible scroll directions) _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
