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Proposal: Improvement for Listboxes in Blender

This is a proposal for improving the look&feel of list boxes in the Blender user interface. The reasons why i was looking into this:

Reasons

Rigged characters often use a lot of shape keys and vertex groups. The provided lists quickly get unhandy and it can be time consuming when you are looking for a specific entry. Think of a character with 100 shape keys for example. So we where discussing 3 improvements for list boxes:

  • resizable list box
  • list filters for search
  • add level of hierarchy (like with outliner)

The first 2 improvements have been discussed so far. The third idea (hirarchical display) has not been commented although i think it is still a good way to organize large lists of shapekeys.

Mockups

This is my personal favorite: I have replaced some of the controls to save visual space. I placed the filter field on top because i believe that is the most comfortable location for the filter. And i added a drag handled to the lower right corner of the list box so that it becomes easy to resize it. I believe this is a standard way to do such things:

User-resizable lists list1.png

A developer has mentioned that it might be not possible to create such a listbox because the Blender user interface does not provide the necessary features. The following 2 variants may be easier to implement:

User-resizable lists list2.png
User-resizable lists list3.png

These 2 variants use a popup that shows up with right click. I personally do not like this approach because the filter is not instantly visible. And if you want to change the filter you always must mouse click first.

User-resizable lists list4.png
User-resizable lists list5.png

This is one of the first variants with a filter field at the bopttom of the list.

User-resizable lists list6.png