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Status bar info - optigon - 12-25-2012
Thinking about the status bar...
Maybe there should be more customisability to the readouts.
Was thinking there could be a drop down list.
Selection Status Attributes
□ Element Ids up to 6 selected elements
□ Coordinates of up to 2 elements
□ Angle between 2 faces or edges
□ Distance between 2 centers
□ Length of up to 2 edges
□ Area of up to 2 faces
□ Volume of up to 2 objects
I welcome your suggestions and additions to this list, and perhaps a suggestion for the defaults.
Was also contemplating a rolling status bar to save space and keep it to one line. This could be furnished with an up and down arrow plus pause button.
Any ideas are welcome
RE: Status bar info - maker - 12-25-2012
Speaking architecturally:
- Area of 2 faces is nice. Even more welcome would be Sketchup-like (total) area of selected faces. (Ideal for finding the floor area.)
- Distance between two centers: also nice; esp. if it can also show the perpendicular distance.
- Can't say much about the rest, or about defaults, since most of your user-base are probably asset-creators (Judging by the gallery.) Maybe, some time in future, we could be allowed to choose the info to display in "Preferences."
Rolling status bar seems a good idea - especially if it will show all lines for a brief moment, and then roll down. Maybe it could mouse-over to expand/fold (instead of clicking arrow.)
btw, absolutely love the way mouse-over of entity displays info - like length, area etc.
RE: Status bar info - Fonte Boa - 12-25-2012
( a )As about Info Line design, i think "customization" it yet the best perspective. So each user could quickly read in Status bar some particular important information. If i could customize"my" Status line i'de love read in it how many isolated vertices, vertices with 5 edges and very short edges (for example, things that are important to me in organic modelling).
( b ) Another point is to have an indication either at Status bar either at Info Line about the command is being executed. This would be very important to newbies imo and a clear didatic reference .
( c ) If more than one element is selected, Status bar has a single line, but if a single one is selected, it goes to two lines: why not to keep the single selected element information in a single line? (i've never had space problems here to conform all in a single line).
( d ) And why not to make Status bar display optional? I've already have to lost some space together it to Tweak menu, that isnt optional too: and there are many moments user definitelly would like to have both opened... Nothing against them: they are precious! Just could be hotkeyable: display or not.
RE: Status bar info - optigon - 12-26-2012
Some good ideas here, I especially like the mouse over Status bar to display all.