Thank you very much for the patches, the camera rotation is much better
now. :)

  The view names are even more wrong than that, front and back were swapped
with left and right. I was avoiding changing them to avoid confusion
because that's how it's always been but I've changed the names now and
hopefully people will get used to it.

  You are also correct about the zoom direction being inconsistent with the
camera rotation but for some reason that's how I personally like it. I've
checked Maya and by default they have inverted mouse rotation with moving
the mouse forward to zoom out. The funny thing is I had the mouse wheel
working the opposite way of the zoom direction so to have everything be
consistent I inverted the current zoom direction.

  While checking the camera I noticed that on Linux the window manager
overrides alt+mouse buttons to move/resize the window so Linux users don't
have the camera shortcuts (and the mouse wheel doesn't do anything on Linux
either). I don't know what's the best way to fix this, if someone has
experience with other Linux CAD programs I'd be interested to know what key
they use for quick camera changes.


On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Torbjörn Söderstedt <[email protected]>wrote:

> I just started using LeoCAD, and found the rotation to be a bit annoying.
> So, I rewrote it to act more like a turntable, which I find a lot more
> intuitive and easy to use.
>
> The second patch is just to actually forward the middle mouse button in
> the Linux version.
>
>
> I have found to camera related inconsistencies:
>
> 1. The "Home" viewport implies looking at the front of the model (at an
> angle). Yes the "Front" viewport looks from the back of the model. Seems
> like the "Front" and "Back" viewports have been swapped.
>
> 2. When zooming, moving the mouse forward moves the camera backwards. This
> implies inverted mouse, yet rotation does not use inverted mouse.
>
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