"Mouse Down Blow Up" related oddity?

Post by **admin** » 11 Oct 2006 11:45

lukescammell wrote:OK, so I thought we were still on the RMB click thingy (like I said, it's early). What I was really trying to say was "click the other mouse button while the original button is still held down". This would then lock the picture on the screen, until you click/press any button apart from the arrows perhaps, which would allow you to pretty much show the pictures around the currently viewed picture?

Thanks, but I have tried this idea already but there are some issues with it. (Too complex/boring to explain now).

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 11 Oct 2006 16:25

admin wrote:Oh, I can see a lot of point in looking at a detail of a picture for a longer time. Also, in MDBUSU you can move the picture around by moving the mouse before you release the right button. So you can carefully choose the detail you want to look at (or show somebody at the table next to you).

Oh yeah.. actually I hadn't realized you could move the picture around before releasng the button & therefore choose which part of the picture will be visible on -StayUp

(probably because on my right click I must wait a little bit longer so StrokeIt "give up", or else it's tryng to see a mouse gesture here)
Anyways, in that case yeah it makes more sense obviously.

admin wrote:Holding CTRL was on my mind too, by I see a possible interference with the toggle-select function of holding CTRL while clicking a list item. Plus you need two hands for it... maybe there's a better solution. Let's wait a bit.

Agree for the 2 hands, though I don't think it'd be such a problem. But regarding the interference I don't think there should be any, as in my mind I didn't meant you need to hold CTRL when clicking the picture, but only when releasing the button ! As in, you go for a MDBU as usual, but then realize you wanna keep the part visible on screen for a bit: then & only then you hold Ctrl before releasing the button, and because CTRL is held down on MouseUp, we get in -StayUp mode.
Since CTRL wasn't down when clicking on the thumbs, shouldn't be no interference of any kind.

admin wrote:Concerning FS mode: there will be the possibility to assign a KS for this in future.

That's good

But honestly I'd like it better on the right-click, cause then you can activate it on a picture of your choice, and without having to actually select that file, or even better, without having to affect your current selection ! (just like MDBU) which is really cool, especially when you already have a few files selected, to check one out to decide whether or not to select it, for example.

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 11 Oct 2006 18:56

jacky wrote:As in, you go for a MDBU as usual, but then realize you wanna keep the part visible on screen for a bit: then & only then you hold Ctrl before releasing the button, and because CTRL is held down on MouseUp, we get in -StayUp mode.
Since CTRL wasn't down when clicking on the thumbs, shouldn't be no interference of any kind.

I would be comfortable with this option...even though it would require two hands, it's not that often used to be an issue to me.

surrender · Post by **surrender** » 11 Oct 2006 20:39

How about middle click??

Update: and left+right for laptop users.

Post by **admin** » 12 Oct 2006 08:13

surrender wrote:How about middle click??

Update: and left+right for laptop users.

I'm now thinking about a cool mouseover effect by which clicking zones are displayed on the thumbnail. Clicking a certain subzone will trigger the sticky blow up. This will also make it clear to newbies that there is something interesting to click.