From: Michael Noe <mnoe@iquest.net>
To: ml@qoole.com
Reply-To: ml@qoole.com
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 19:06:38 -0500
Subject: Re: simple addition...

Killing two birds with one stone on this one...

<snip>

Charles Boardman wrote:
> 
> > My idea is when focus is on the textures window that if a "key" is hit
> > then the window will go to the begining of textures begining with that
> > letter... ie: I want to get to sky from floor metal textures, I just hit
> > the "s" key and it puts me at the bigining of the s.... textures and
> > then I wanted to choose a C_Met... and so I just hit "c" and get to the
> > start of the c... textures.
> >
> > So what do you think?
> 
> Fantastic idea Mike.  I've actually gone to use that feature in Qoole before
> and been a bit disappointed when it didn't work (daft git that I am).  That's
> a superb idea, but might need a little more thought.  Like what do you do
> if you have say 100 textures starting with the letter "s" and you wanted
> the 65th one?  Presumably this desirable new feature would have to be able
> to extend to 2nd and 3rd letters (of the texture name) in order to cater
> for such possibilities?  I know
> its not much of an extra problem, but the better you can specify something,
> the more straight forward it is to implement.

I agree, if going to more than one letter is easily done that's great,
but normally I have no clue of the name and therefore just want to get
as close as possible.  I also think the idea I read about grouping the
textures by types (walls, waters, skys) is a pretty good thought too,
but I'm fine with the alphabatized order.


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        There is a problem, though. Many letter keys are already
shortcuts foruseful things.  For example "s" puts you in scale mode, "r"
brush rotation mode, etc.  I'm used to these shortcuts (they allow you
to work much faster) and I would hate to see them go... Maybe some more
bookmarks (for 8,9,0 or the f1-f12 keys) would be helpful.

Re: this reply, I tend to agree that the shortcuts are great and
usefull, however what you must remember is that is windowed/object
coding you know what window has focus and the only time the letters
would not do the shortcuts would be when you had focus on the texture
window, so therefore the shortcuts would still be happy and well.

Can anyone confirm this either way?

thanks, Mike