Selection indicator

 From:  Michael Gibson
3254.13 In reply to 3254.10 
Hi Danny,

> Hard to say without actually seeing it in action, sounds a
> bit un-discoverable,

Well, it will help keep things a lot tidier - having every single row always showing some kind of menu launcher arrow is going to make a lot of clutter on the screen.

Any time you move your mouse over an item the arrow would show up, so that should help with discoverability, you've got to move your mouse over rows at some point to use the scene browser anyway.

I did not mind putting it on all the time for the Style header section because there are much fewer header sections than individual item rows, and some more important, more frequently used functionality is on that menu like "Add style". The per-item menu stuff will not be quite as important for basic use.


> it's not unusual to see multiple columns
> in a layer system though.

Yeah, there are actually multiple columns in MoI already - like in the style section there is 1 column for status (where the Eye or Lock goes), a swatch column and a name column.


The other possibility is that clicking on the name could actually pop out the item's menu and instead the dot all the way to the right could be clickable for selection instead of selecting by clicking on the name like it currently works...

It would be kind of good to have stuff related to selection all focused in one spot. It would be a smaller area to click on than the current method where the whole name can be clicked for selection though.

- Michael