hey david, you shouldn't need to update your widgets every time the user has changed its selection (completely behind steve on that one) but everytime focus has changed back to your widget. overload QWidget::enterEvent or QWidget::focusInEvent and update your highlight buttons when the widget is under the cursor. your developer could also have a look to the tool sdk, both are compatible and you could end up with something nice (custom manipulater + synoptic). -- jo
2012/11/21 Steven Caron <[email protected]> > this is a good example. combined with a few other good reasons i would > probably implement an event, but if this were the only good reason i would > still avoid doing it with an event. as i said in my email to david, if > performance were to be an issue, i would highlight the controls in the gui > once the cursor enters the application. > > there are a few things in softimage that make me paranoid and selection > events is one of them. i remember a plugin that was installed at blur a > long time ago that did an on selection change script that was the culprit > for some serious lag for the animators. > > i also imagine one might want to keep open multiple character guis and i > can see this getting out of hand. but its still worth some investigation. > > s > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Bi-Directionality is actually quite important. >> A lot of people want to do part of a selection in the viewport quickly, >> and then add a few missing, or easier to retrieve, bits clicking around in >> the character pane. >> >> Doing it with events isn't a huge drag, it only kicks in at selection >> time in the viewport, and it's most likely done with a monitor job in Maya, >> which tends to have comparable lag, so if people find it ok in one they >> will most likely be fine with the other's. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ya, it might be slow. >>> >>> i dont see an advantage to the bi-directionality feature, anyone care to >>> give me a good example? >>> >>> s >>> >> >
