Ticket #3896 - [Feature] Dependency graph panning

[craig9]

Hi,

I'm finding more and more that I am spending time with the dependency graph as a feedback device, to ensure that I am not creating cross-body links and other problems with my geometry. I've noticed that when I have 6 or 8 bodies or more, each with its own history of features and operations, the screen must be scrolled to see the whole picture.

The wiki page: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Std_DependencyGraph shows (I guess) old screenshots of the dependency graph, so my first suggestion is that we update those pics. I'd be happy to take some screenshots, I'm currently using FreeCAD 0.18 daily on ubuntu 18.10.

Second suggestion is that we update the wiki text where it says "Use the horizontal slider at the bottom of the screen to pan the view sideways." This seems to be incomplete, because after trying various things, I was able to use ctrl and alt along with the mousewheel, to scroll in the X and Y axes.

Third suggestion is to make dependency graph panning/scrolling more comfortable. I suggest that we map the scrolling action of the dependency graph to the panning actions of the 3D and 2D views. In my case, using Gesture Mode, that would mean right-click scrolling. Going back and forth between sketches, 3D views, and the dependency graph, it's very jarring to have to remap my mind to a different scrolling mechanism for each view. What do you think?

Cheers,
Craig

[chrisb]

I suggest that we map the scrolling action of the dependency graph to the panning actions of the 3D and 2D views.

+1

[NormandC]

Craig,

Thank you for opening my eyes to the possibility of panning in the dependency graph, I didn't know that one!

Edit: how about that, my 18,000th post

[craig9]

Thank you for opening my eyes to the possibility of panning in the dependency graph

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Edit: how about that, my 18,000th post

No problem Normand

Congratulations on reaching 18K posts. Thank you for your efforts. The answers and advice you give are helpful to me and countless other FreeCAD users.

Cheers,
Craig

[NormandC]

Thanks!

[chrisb]

Thanks for the information! This panning mode is an enourmous relief for Mac users, because on this extremely user friendly system the scrollbars disappear if not used for a second or so. The reappear on zooming, so to pan I had to zoom a little bit and the pan.
With gesture mouse model the view can be panned by holding any of Ctrl, Alt, Cmd and move the DepGraph to my liking with two fingers on the trackpad (=replacement for right mouse button).

[craig9]

Sadly, on my Ubuntu based system, I cannot get ctrl-right-drag or alt-right-drag to pan the DG view. I guess that's a mac only thing, or a QT on mac only thing.

Hopefully one day we see the DG view emulate the panning action that the other 2D and 3D views use (based on whichever 3D navigation option is selected). But in the meantime, the ctrl or alt mousewheel stuff is useful on Ubuntu at least, and the ctrl-right-drag or alt-right-drag is useful on mac.

Cheers,
Craig

[Kunda1]

Third suggestion is to make dependency graph panning/scrolling more comfortable. I suggest that we map the scrolling action of the dependency graph to the panning actions of the 3D and 2D views. In my case, using Gesture Mode, that would mean right-click scrolling. Going back and forth between sketches, 3D views, and the dependency graph, it's very jarring to have to remap my mind to a different scrolling mechanism for each view. What do you think?

Who's going to create the Feature Request ticket ?

[kisolre]

we will just wait for the wmayers git comit #XXXX just joking

[craig9]

Who's going to create the Feature Request ticket ?

https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=3896

issue #3896

I hope that's ok?

Cheers,
Craig