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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
Hi Stephen, I was aware of this bug when detaching the 3D view, I admit I have spent few time to see what causes the issue, however fixing it is on the roadmap. The bug never happened to me in the second way, maybe fixing the code for the first case could be enough to handle the second too, if not I'll have to investigate more. I'll keep you updated. Daniele
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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
Hi Stephen, I've implemented a workaround for the problem occurring when detaching the 3D view, it works well and I'm now making extensive tests, you can download it in preview from here: Pan3dView-1.9.sh3p
If you are interested in, you may take a look at these 2 plugins too:
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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
As a macOS user, I don't have any middle button on my mouse but still tried this plug-in because it's required for the other nice plug-ins you developed. Unfortunately, swiping the mouse (= rolling the mouse wheel) provokes too fast back and forth moves without backward limits, when the Pan3dView plug-in is installed. I would be nice if you could fix that, and possibly propose an alternate way for a middle click.
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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
@Puybaret Thank you Emmanuel for you feedback :) I didn't know macOS' mice lack the middle button. I apologize for this, I'll try to implement an alternative method of enabling panning (I'm thinking of holding a key such as ALT while dragging).
Adding a limit for the backward movement shouldn't be a problem. Moreover I also didn't implement the speed switch with the SHIFT key, but I can add it too.
Please note that I've substantially changed the way the scroll wheel moves the camera from linear to an exponential fashon, this way it acts much as a "zoom" than as navigation, which I find more confortable. However I understand some users could like the default behaviour, so I'm thinking about introducing a dialog to customize these settings.
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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
I sent you a video to show you how super fast zoom is working with Apple's mouse.
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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
Hi Emmanuel, thank you for the video, it helped me understand what was going on. I've releasead a new version of the plugin which should fix the bug. unfortunately I cannot test it by myself on a macOS, I hope it works. If you still experience problems you have 2 options:
help me debug the code;
turn off the exponential wheel using the new settings panel available under 3D view -> Pan 3D view settings menu.
I've also added an alternate way to pan for macOS, see below.
Summary of the changes:
Added ALT+left mouse button as an alternative to middle mouse button for panning (for macOS users)
Added the SHIFT key support to increase the speed of the scroll wheel in the 3D view
Improved exponential mouse wheel
Implemented a limit for the max distance when moving backward with the scroll wheel
Fixed the behavior in virtual visitor mode when custom mouse handlers wish to prevent camera rotation (1)
Added a preferences panel to:
enable/disable exponential mouse wheel
enable/disable select transparent walls with mouse
1) this change fixes the annoying bug occurring when moving points in virtual visitor mode for Wirings and 3D dimension lines plugins.
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Re: Pan tool in 3D and 2D view?
Yes it does make sense, because for some reason the center that are supposed to be rotating around, is not in the center of the screen. I my case this rotation center too much on the right side of the screen
