[Closed] Scrubbing the trackbar without clicking+dragging on it

May 14, 2008 4:52 pm

Is this at all possible?

As far as I’ve seen it’s possible to make any keyboard shortcut a ‘modifier key’ so what I had in mind is that when you hold down a predefined keystroke and then simply shake your mouse from left to right it feeds the horizontal motion values onto the trackbar; essentially scrubbing it without having to click and drag it.

Would be a GREAT time-saver whilst animating instead of having to constantly move your mouse to the bottom of the screen, clicking on the trackbar and then scrubbing.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

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JHaywood

May 14, 2008 4:52 pm

I haven’t put a lot of thought into this, but it seems to work. I’m using the MouseTrack() function to drive the time slider based on the horizontal mouse movement. You could probably do the same thing using dotNet.

Just run the script, move the cursor back and forth in front of the viewports, and then click the right mouse button to exit.

fn trackbarScrub msg ir obj faceNum shift ctrl alt =
(
	if msg == #mouseAbort then
	(
		return #end
	)
	if msg == #freeMove then
	(
		newPos = mousePos - mouse.screenPos
		x = -newPos.x
		sliderTime += x
		mousePos = mouse.screenPos
		return #continue
	)
)

mousePos = [0,0]
mouseTrack trackCallBack:trackbarScrub

Edit: I simplified the code a bit. A nice addition would be to modify the sensitivity of the mouse movement so that you it’s not so jittery.