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Topo Tool
captaindrewi:
--- Quote from: Trevor on January 19, 2016, 05:48:44 pm ---I also agree that MMb should either be minimised OR at least have an alternative.
I do have a MMB and wheel, but having been recently using An8 on someone elses laptop I found soo much functionality missing without MMb... Big one was unable to deselect things...
Trev
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Would be nice to have an alternative key to act as mmb for laptops that don't have a mmb. As Trev has highlighted.
I have drawn attention to it before.
nemyax:
--- Quote from: captaindrewi on January 20, 2016, 04:54:44 am ---Would be nice to have an alternative key to act as mmb for laptops that don't have a mmb.
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The least-surprise approach would be to emulate MMB with both LMB and RMB clicked/held together, the way X Window does it in Unix-like systems.
captaindrewi:
Unfortunately that doesn't help when using the uv tool as you need both mmb and rmb for scaling the uv image etc.[re functionality of laptops without built in mmb]
Sorry I'm interrupting the main subject matter of this topic.
Trevor:
I should note that I do support MMB operations, clicking with the wheel is no problem, I only state that a long way is needed.
eg, to zoom, we use the wheel or Alt+MMB, if no wheel or MMB available you can still use View tool and Zoom.
So, to deselect things we need an alternative.
I like the Shift CTRL descriptions of alternate and similar operations. A third would be Ctrl+Shift as pressing both together is easy. So that gives the topo tool 9 operations all with the mouse. (I mean 12 oops)
I suppose another alternative to MMB is Ctrl+Alt+RMB (unless I missed something prior)
Now I know someone is going to say "Alt is Arc-Rotate", but Im specifying Ctrl First. This means that Ctrl alters the Alt key to no longer bring up the Arc-rotate and to instead start accepting MB's. This could also tally up Topo Tool mouse options to 13...
Normalx3, Shiftx3, Ctrlx3, Ctrl+Shiftx3 + Ctrl+Alt+LMB
Oh well, 13 goes with the halloween theme (yeah, I prefer the classic blue as you may have seen in the merge points discussion)
Trev
nemyax:
--- Quote from: Trevor on January 20, 2016, 09:43:47 am ---A third would be Ctrl+Shift as pressing both together is easy.
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Ctrl+Shift is reserved for temporary Select.
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