Option to hide the Marker area #65607

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William Reynish · 2019-06-07T14:45:58+02:00

William Reynish commented

2019-06-07 14:45:58 +02:00

The marker area takes up a lot of vertical space, and often you don't need to see it in every animation editor.

We should add an option to Show/Hide the marker area, inside each animation editor.

Rename Show Marker Lines to Show Markers
If Show Markers = True, then it should work as today
if Show Markers = False, then both the marker area, markers and marker lines should never be visible, in the current editor

Suggested by user Alumx

The marker area takes up a lot of vertical space, and often you don't need to see it in every animation editor. We should add an option to Show/Hide the marker area, inside each animation editor. - Rename Show Marker Lines to Show Markers - If Show Markers = True, then it should work as today - if Show Markers = False, then both the marker area, markers and marker lines should never be visible, in the current editor Suggested by user Alumx

William Reynish commented

2019-06-07 14:45:58 +02:00

Added subscribers: @WilliamReynish, @NachoMaure, @JacquesLucke

Jacques Lucke was assigned by William Reynish

2019-06-07 14:46:13 +02:00

Alessio Monti di Sopra commented

2019-06-15 15:39:53 +02:00

Added subscriber: @a.monti

Alessio Monti di Sopra commented

2019-06-15 15:39:53 +02:00

@JacquesLucke Hi! Are you already working on this? If not and if it doesn't bother you I would like to give it a try.

Jacques Lucke commented

2019-06-15 21:55:42 +02:00

I did not start working on this yet.

Alessio Monti di Sopra commented

2019-06-19 11:02:30 +02:00

Hi, I was looking at the markers operators, and I have a couple of question about them:

Add: should we allow to add markers if the area is hidden? Also currently, when "Lock Markers" is active, it's still possible to add new ones, should we keep this behaviour?
Rename and Select: right now one can't select/deselect or rename markers when "Lock Markers" is active. I personally think we should instead allow it, the selection part at least. It currently feels a bit broken since, if you had some markers selected before locking them, they remains highlighted.
Bind Camera to Marker:
should we always draw the lines for this special markers as we do now? I think it was a way to differentiate them in 2.7 when they had the same icon, so I don't think it's necessary any more.
we currently allow to bind any object to a marker with this operator, not only cameras.. Is this a bug or a feature? :) (was the same in 2.7)

About the interface @WilliamReynish

Rename Show Marker Lines to Show Markers

I think we could keep the option to show/hide the lines, if one wanted to keep the editor a bit more clean; I'd make a menu like this one: (I think we could also move "Show Pose Markers" there, renaming it to something like "Toggle Pose Markers" maybe?).

Another small thing: maybe we could hide the "Marker" menu from the header if the region is hidden

Hi, I was looking at the markers operators, and I have a couple of question about them: * **Add**: should we allow to add markers if the area is hidden? Also currently, when *"Lock Markers"* is active, it's still possible to add new ones, should we keep this behaviour? * **Rename** and **Select**: right now one can't select/deselect or rename markers when *"Lock Markers"* is active. I personally think we should instead allow it, the selection part at least. It currently feels a bit broken since, if you had some markers selected before locking them, they remains highlighted. * **Bind Camera to Marker**: * should we always draw the lines for this special markers as we do now? I think it was a way to differentiate them in 2.7 when they had the same icon, so I don't think it's necessary any more. * we currently allow to bind any object to a marker with this operator, not only cameras.. Is this a bug or a feature? :) (was the same in 2.7) ___ About the interface @WilliamReynish > Rename Show Marker Lines to Show Markers I think we could keep the option to show/hide the lines, if one wanted to keep the editor a bit more clean; I'd make a menu like this one: (I think we could also move *"Show Pose Markers"* there, renaming it to something like "Toggle Pose Markers" maybe?). ![002386.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7171150/002386.png) Another small thing: maybe we could hide the "Marker" menu from the header if the region is hidden ![002391.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7254593/002391.png)

William Reynish commented

2020-02-03 18:59:46 +01:00

Changed status from 'Confirmed' to: 'Resolved'

William Reynish closed this issue

2020-02-03 18:59:46 +01:00

William Reynish commented

2020-02-03 18:59:46 +01:00

This has been resolved.

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Option to hide the Marker area #65607