Re:hotbox: I think this is an edge case, but actually, you can define your own user menu sets in Maya, and when you hide everything, it'll show the current menu sets, which means only what you want to see. And of course you can separately define a custom marking menu on any hotkey, they don't just exist in the hotbox. Pretty much everything is there, but I have a feeling you'll be moving that yardstick forward wherever you need it.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > I'm not talking about zone marking menus. Custom marking menus can be created > and there are a handful of contexts that can be used. But thats not what i'm > taking about. I'm talking about the Hotbox itself. Being able to hide some or > all of it isn't sufficient. I want the ability to create hotbox > layouts,choosing only the commands i want and where they are placed in the > hotbox. The zone marking menus are an extra step beyong the hotbox, and while > they are customizable i don't care to use them. Getting to those commands > take two or three extra clicks at which point the using the hotbox no longer > interests me. > > Yeah i know i can hide a lot of the extraneous stuff in the hotbox. But i > know of no way to save that as a hotbox layout or hotbox set. Ever try to set > up a viewport layout and a hotbox layout to match? Yeah its kind of weird. > Get all fairly close to what you want, remove the hotbox file bar and > interface filebar for example and i can find no way to save the layout. This > is my point. The hotbox is a very novel idea, but its half baked and isnt > thought through to its ultimate value. > > Give me the ability to get to just the commands i want with one click the > spacebar, give me alt-spacebar to optionbox any of those commands. Then i > will be impressed. > > From: Raffaele Fragapane [raffsxsil...@googlemail.com] > Subject: Re: Maya thinks they're clever....and that's the problem > > You can select what appears in the hotbox and what doesn't already, Joey, and > you can customise marking menus (which respond to gesture) which are even > quicker. > > Maya's UI is, in most places, borderline disgraceful, the hotbox and the > gesture driven contextual menus are not those places.
