It should be, but I've never gotten around to trying to write one.. Both of the ones I tried were exactly that (python scripts), so I could probably look into editing them to make them suit my tastes ;) https://code.google.com/p/key-mon/ https://launchpad.net/screenkey
On 05/31/15 13:31, TARDIS Maker wrote: > Sadly I don't know of any good ones, but would it be possible to make a > simple python script that does it instead? I don't know how complex it > would be, but I don't think it would be overly complex. The nice thing > about that, would be (depending on the graphics library used) that it would > be cross platform also. > > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 4:28 PM, gandalf3 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From the rather rudimentary look I gave at the other screencast keys >> addon a while ago, it appeared to suffer from all the same major issues >> as the main screencast keys.. >> >> I do kind of like having blender specific info like last operator etc. >> displayed, but I'd prefer to have modal keypresses and display in non-3D >> views. I've yet to find any external keypress displaying program (for >> linux) I'm happy with.. So unless anyone has any suggestions it seems >> I'm stuck with screencast keys for the time being :P >> >> On 05/31/15 13:14, Gaia wrote: >>> Here is a link which lists some reasons why the tool has been removed: >>> >>> >> http://www.blendernation.com/2014/07/02/screencast-keys-addon-is-removed-b3d/ >>> You still can find the "original" tool here: >>> >>> >> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/trunk/py/scripts/addons/space_view3d_screencast_keys.py >>> And here is an alternative development: >>> >>> >> https://github.com/jedihe/b3d_screencast_keys/blob/master/space_view3d_screencast_keys.py >>> I am not sure if the alternative works better or not. >>> Both scripts seem to work on current Blender versions >>> with the known limitations. But i can neither tell if it is >>> a good idea to use them or not, nor did i do any in depth >>> tests. >>> >>> -gaia- >>> >>> On 31.05.2015 21:51, TARDIS Maker wrote: >>>> I guess the devs where getting a bunch of bug reports for it and stuff, >> and >>>> they weren't able to take care of them. The main problems with it are >> that >>>> it really only works for the 3D view, and I also heard somewhere that it >>>> was inaccurately stating keys, I can't confirm that though. I guess it's >>>> also hard to maintain. But there are programs that should do a better >> job >>>> of it, although I haven't found any that actually look nice (but I >> haven't >>>> looked very hard). There's also the option of doing it in the editing >>>> stage, but this would be way too complex except for extremely simple >> things. >>>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:21 PM, TARDIS Maker <[email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> That was removed in 2.72 (I believe) because it has situations where >> it >>>>>> doesn't work. You can still find it online, I believe, or you can get >> it >>>>>> out of an older version of Blender. >>>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the info. Perhaps we should remove all the other things that >>>>> have bugs? :-) >>>>> Really, this was a good tool. Just because it has corner cases where it >>>>> fails does not mean it should be removed. It means it should be worked >> on. >>>>> IMOHO of course. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Douglas E Knapp >>>>> >>>>> Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: >>>>> http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm >>>>> Please link to me and trade links with me! >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bf-committers mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >> -- >> -gandalf3 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- -gandalf3 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
