Inspector Feedback

[thomashelzle]

Interesting.
I’d have thought left-right-dragging in the patch on IOboxes would feel weird, but it was actually quite natural. I think I could get used to this quickly.

Directly dragging with the left mouse is also quite nice in a way, although the area where one can drag on nodes to move them becomes even smaller then - it already became much smaller from the direct link-dragging, where one can no longer drag on the connection area as was possible in the past.
This may also lead to one inadvertently changing parameters where the right mouse buttons always needed more of a conscious decision to change the value.

Hm.

I think my default would be left-right dragging but with the right mouse button for above reasons.

Although I use a wacom pen which some people find awkward to use the middle and right mouse button with (via the buttons on the side) I never had that issue and hate it much more to click on a mouse-wheel ;-)

So big thumbs up for the left-right dragging.
Originally I also thought to change the direction in the inspector or offer up-down there as a secondary option, but I’m not sure the effort would equal the benefit.

It’s interesting that in Houdini, they use actual sliders in the inspectors and so sliding them vertically feels totally natural since the brain “groks” the nature of a slider on a different level than just “knowing somehow” that one has to drag left and right.

I’d be good with what you did already.

Cheers,

Tom