RC2: UI quirks in Animation Editor
by Andrew Douglas · in Torque Game Builder · 06/10/2006 (6:34 pm) · 0 replies
This made me think there was a selection bug and continues to catch me even though I know about it so I figured I'd mention it just in case:
When selecting a frame, you MUST click on a part of the actual image in the frame not the frame itself. The problem is that with frames that have transparent backgrounds (pretty much all of them) it's nearly impossible to tell what will be a valid click and what won't unless you take the time to click on a visible part of the image inside the frame. That may not sound all the difficult, but there's this big flashy frame around the image that I instinctively think will qualify any clicks inside the frame as being a valid click. The real "nuisance" though is when you are quickly trying to drag frames from the Source ImageMap list box over to the storyboard and the only thing visible on the next frame is "empty frame" and no visible image to click on. You think you can drag it over, but instead you have to scroll down to see the visible part of the image and then drag it over.
Anyway, enough ranting. I'll get over it if there's no way around it... I promise :)
Thanks!
-Andrew
When selecting a frame, you MUST click on a part of the actual image in the frame not the frame itself. The problem is that with frames that have transparent backgrounds (pretty much all of them) it's nearly impossible to tell what will be a valid click and what won't unless you take the time to click on a visible part of the image inside the frame. That may not sound all the difficult, but there's this big flashy frame around the image that I instinctively think will qualify any clicks inside the frame as being a valid click. The real "nuisance" though is when you are quickly trying to drag frames from the Source ImageMap list box over to the storyboard and the only thing visible on the next frame is "empty frame" and no visible image to click on. You think you can drag it over, but instead you have to scroll down to see the visible part of the image and then drag it over.
Anyway, enough ranting. I'll get over it if there's no way around it... I promise :)
Thanks!
-Andrew
