Open Jose-Moreno opened 5 years ago
If we go further the time indicator should not react to the keyframes. You are always expecting it to keep showing the frame you want it to.
This sounds a bit wrong but maybe that's just my interpretation of the above sentence. The time indicator should move to the position where you intend to create a new keyframe. We can't stay on a frame, create a new somewhere else and not expect the indicator to not move since it's tightly coupled together.
I do agree though that deleting a frame shouldn't necessary scrub back.
@CandyFace
The time indicator should move to the position where you intend to create a new keyframe
It's exactly as you put it . Maybe i should have phrased that differently. Apologies for any confusion.
The time indicator has to move where you want it to. So you move the indicator and then create, duplicate or delete keyframes.
So far it almost works like that, what I don't agree is there inconsistent behavior where creating a keyframe keeps the time indicator in place, but for deleting and duplicating it does not.
In the latter cases it's being proposed that:
Some of these ideas might not be necessarily implemented now, as there might be changes with a new timeline implementation. So all i'm asking is to keep it in mind once we do get to that point.
Regarding my comment on your undo PR, it's just the toggle that I'd like to see if you're going to work on that feature anyway. But if it's not possible then we should at least make it clear that such feature will come eventually :smile:
Issue Summary
This is a mighty annoying issue, when you're organizing keyframes and you delete one just to have the time indicator move back. Don't please. Let it behave the same way like when you add a keyframe, where the time indicator sticks in the same frame.
This may sound like a very odd and particular request but i've had to struggle with this when working on Pencil2D. It's one of those things that no one software does.
If we go further the time indicator should not react to the keyframes. You are always expecting it to keep showing the frame you want it to.
In the case of keyframe duplication it feels ok because it takes you to the duplicate, but it could be better by allowing you to duplicate the previous keyframe on ANY frame the time indicator is located at.
Otherwise let's not move the time indicator without user intent.
Edit: Due to feedback by scribblemaniac, I agree that on this last point, having the current behavior can work very well for a different use case, like when you want to promptly delete all the keyframes quickly, so could this be a toggle behavior?
Edit2: Thinking about it more calmly we could have modifiers to extend the behavior, of the keyframe manipulation operators.
The premise is that none of these should move the time indicator, but there ar euse cases where it is indeed desired that it moves. The keys is user intent.
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