[Geesas-Devs] Auto-Keyframing feature

[Stuart L. (VK4MSL) <me...@vk...>]

Hi,

I've recently downloaded and installed Clash from source.  I discovered
Pencil some time back and today decided I'd have a tinker with it.

Having played with it a little, I had an idea for an effect I wanted to
create, but found Pencil really didn't offer it; the ability to capture
the sequence of brush strokes as an animation.

I asked about it here…
http://pencil-animation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3174

Doing some further research, I stumbled across Clash.  It's a step up in
this regard, in that there is at least a keystroke for duplicating a key
frame.  The keystroke however, is a little inconvenient on the keyboard,
especially if you're on an Apple keyboard like I am, as one has to press
Fn to hit any of the Function keys.  Some IBM clone laptops are like
this too.

Thus the first patch changes the shortcuts to something easily accessed
with one hand.

To implement automatic keyframes, I then created a class that uses a
QTimer object to trigger the duplicateKey event repeatedly at a set
interval.  This is what the second patch does.

A caveat, I note that if you leave the stylus down, the stroke doesn't
appear until you lift the stylus — and even then, it only appears on the
last frame.  I suspect somewhere there'd need to be some logic to
seamlessly break the stroke up, but the workaround is to just use short
strokes.

Anyway, I've attached the two patches that implement this feature.

Regards,
-- 
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