[L2Ork-dev] Purr Data 2.14.2

Ivica Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Fri Sep 25 01:10:05 EDT 2020


I vote for alt even though I am still getting used to it :-). I do not like
the flashing of the grid background every time I create an object.

Best,

Ico

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 20:57 Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 6:12 PM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I mentioned one solution previously, which was to just go ahead and
>> send a ctrl up event to the backend in the relevant callbacks. To sum
>> up-- it's more involved than simply changing the keybinding.
>>
>
> Yep, that's what I referred to as "a lot of duct tape." :)
>
> I think there is another-- instead of triggering the beginning of the
>> mode on `<ctrl>`, we could trigger it on click.
>
>
> That sounds like the most sensible solution. But is that really the only
> thing that you can do in temp runmode? (Sorry, I'm not actually that
> familiar with temp runmode, I don't really use it a lot myself.)
>
> Also, do you think that this also solves the popup-swallows-ctrl-key-up
> bug in the case of an abstraction click in temp runmode? (Joseph just
> reported this for 2.14.2, it's the one popup issue which remains the same
> with the Alt keybinding.)
>
> Albert
>
>
> Then we can just look
>> to see if there's a `<ctrl>` modifier with the click, and if so send
>> that `<ctrl>` key event to the backend. Now the backend can wait with
>> impunity for the `<ctrl>` keyup since we know the user is in the midst
>> of a click.
>>
>> To be completist we could do the same for an initial mousemove event
>> to check if `<ctrl>` is depressed. That would leave a single esoteric
>> bug, which is that the user wouldn't be able to trigger a pointer
>> cursor change-- say, hovering over a scalar's clickable hotspot--
>> simple by depressing and release `<ctrl>`.
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> >
>> >> I vote for keeping the <ctrl> binding.
>> >
>> >
>> > Counted, thanks.
>> >
>> > It probably doesn't come as a big surprise that I vote for the Alt key
>> myself. ;-)
>> >
>> > Anyone else? Ico, IIRC it was actually you who originally suggested the
>> Alt key (or would at least be fine with it), so what's your vote then?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Albert
>> >
>> >> >>> I also see the new grid in Edit mode. Is there any way to snap to
>> this grid?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And this...?
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