No user help for mouse buttons (patch available)

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#2642 No user help for mouse buttons (patch available)

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Status: New

Owner: Stuart Buchanan

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Priority: Low

Updated: 2022-02-19

Created: 2021-08-22

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I noticed some time ago that there does not seem to be a complete help on mouse button functions

ALL MODES
RMB              Look around
RMB-MMB          Move camera Y-Z
Control-RMB-MMB  Move camera X-Y
RMB-Wheel        Adjust FOV

CURSOR MODE
[Shift-]LMB    Push button, increase knob; hold and move left/right: adjust knob
[Shift-]MMB    Decrease knob
[Shift-]Wheel  Adjust knob
RMB-Wheel      Adjust FOV

CONTROL MODE
LMB   Hold and move left/right: rudder
MMB   Thrust
Wheel Trim

VIEW MODE
MMB-LMB (not LMB-MMB!)  Reset camera position
MMB                     Move camera Y-Z
Control-MMB             Move camera X-Y
Wheel                   Adjust FOV

Should I add those to Common Aircraft Keys or make a separate dialog?

1 Attachments

mouseHelp.patch

Discussion

James Turner - 2021-08-23

Seems an okay idead, but some concerns:

lack of space if we make the dialog bigger

need to explain terminology, not everyone understands LMB / MMB/ RMB

platform variations, although maybe this is true for the whole dialog.

we shoudl also explain how to switch modes

@stuartbuchanan thoughts on this?
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Anonymous - 2021-08-31

summary: No user help for mouse buttons --> No user help for mouse buttons (patch available)

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Anonymous - 2021-08-31

I had a minute to make a working dialog but there seems to be no such thing as "key group", so I had to use keys with an empty name:, I hope that is ok?

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Anonymous - 2021-09-06

Made it more compact.

mouseHelp.patch

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Stuart Buchanan - 2021-09-06

assigned_to: Stuart Buchanan
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Anonymous - 2022-02-10

Any news?

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Anonymous - 2022-02-18

Would it be ok if I push this one to next to get feedback from users?

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Anonymous - 2022-02-18

Noticed one more mouse function, added.

mouseHelp.patch

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James Turner - 2022-02-18

I still don't like the abbreivations really, they would confuse many people, but indeed it's better to have something. @stuartbuchanan agreed?

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Anonymous - 2022-02-18

What abbreviations would be better but not so long that they blow up the dialog? Maybe i should move the "legend" section to the beginning?

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James Turner - 2022-02-19

Basically the top/start of the dialog needs to define these abbreviations, really we should use little icons but that needs fancy GUI features (it's coming...). For now if the top of the dialog can define LMB, MMB, RMB with sufficient space for translators, we are good.

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Anonymous - 2022-02-19

Here's an updated patch, rebased for Next

mouseHelp.patch

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