Add ability to cycle slider control point types via keyboard

[bdach]

RFC. Supersedes / closes #27035.

2024-06-17.15-58-20.mp4

Recent feedback has indicated that users deem having to right-click-and-context-menu to change slider control point type too cumbersome. While the original stable of shift-click can't currently work well, here's an alternative proposal.

• During slider placement, press Tab and Shift-Tab to change the type of the first control point in the currently-placed segment.
• During slider placement, press S to start a new segment of the path. While this was previously possible via double-clicking, I added this because I realised I didn't know how a user would do this before I looked into source, and the double-click flow seemed really janky.
• After the slider has been placed, select a single anchor and press Tab and Shift-Tab to change the type of its anchor. In contrast to slider placement, if selecting a non-first control point, inherit is an available option when cycling.
• Additionally, the following bindings are available for using specific curve types:
  • Alt-1 is linear
  • Alt-2 is bezier
  • Alt-3 is perfect curve
  • Alt-4 is B-spline
  • Alt-5 is inherited (only applicable in selection mode)

The bindings are not rebindable because I would have to put an osu!-specific editor binding in the main project which feels wrong.

[OliBomby]

Double-click to create a new segment is something that blew over from stable, so mappers coming from stable should be familiar with that flow. That being said I'm not against adding a hotkey for this. It saves clicks in case you want to make a lot of segments, but it might as well go unnoticed until you look into the source.

I tried out the changes and I like the ability to press Tab to cycle anchor type over the context menu already, but I did find myself never using the Shift-Tab to cycle backwards and instead just pressed Tab until I got the type I'm looking for. I don't think you can reasonably optimize your keypresses by using the Shift-Tab to cycle backwards because its hard to predict the what control point types are in the cycle and how many keypresses is going to get you to the type you want. It might be preferrable to have specific hotkeys for each control point type, for example Tab+number keys.

[bdach]

It might be preferrable to have specific hotkeys for each control point type, for example Tab+number keys

Considered this but I dunno. Q~P row is taken by tool selection, Z~M row is taken by playback hotkeys, so pretty much only the A~L row or the numbers are left. Tab + number seems like a very weird combination and will be annoying to support properly, would rather do an actual modifier like Shift, Ctrl or Alt w/ a number if anything.

[OliBomby]

Considered this but I dunno. QP row is taken by tool selection, ZM row is taken by playback hotkeys, so pretty much only the A~L row or the numbers are left. Tab + number seems like a very weird combination and will be annoying to support properly, would rather do an actual modifier like Shift, Ctrl or Alt w/ a number if anything.

I agree. Shift, Ctrl or Alt w/ a number are all reasonable options. Shift+number seems to already control the beat snap divisor but it might be fine to overwrite if a slider control point is selected because slider control points can not be beat snapped. Otherwise Alt+number seems like the most comfortable option, because you can reach Alt quite easily with your thumb.

[bdach]

Otherwise Alt+number seems like the most comfortable option

I've implemented this.

• Alt-1 is linear
• Alt-2 is bezier
• Alt-3 is perfect curve
• Alt-4 is B-spline
• Alt-0 is inherited (only applicable in selection mode)

[OliBomby]

I've implemented this.

• Alt-1 is linear
• Alt-2 is bezier
• Alt-3 is perfect curve
• Alt-4 is B-spline
• Alt-0 is inherited (only applicable in selection mode)

Yeah this is awesome. It's really easy to change control point types now.
The Alt-0 is a bit far away though. Maybe it's better to have:

• Alt-1 is inherited
• Alt-2 is linear
• Alt-3 is bezier
• Alt-4 is perfect curve
• Alt-5 is B-spline

Also these hotkeys should work when multiple control points are selected, mirroring functionality of using the context menu.

[peppy]

Could we show the bindings somewhere on the screen to make the user aware of them? Especially the "S for new segment". Either:

• Tooltip of slider tool button
• Tooltip of the placement node (so it follows the cursor around). Might work well, might be cumbersome
• Somewhere floating in the editor during slider placement (top centre? bottom centre?)

[bdach]

The Alt-0 is a bit far away though

Addressed this but in a slightly different way (inherited is alt-5 now). Rationale is that I really wanna keep these consistent between placement & selection and I don't like starting the placement ones at alt-2.

Also these hotkeys should work when multiple control points are selected, mirroring functionality of using the context menu.

Is fixed.

Could we show the bindings somewhere on the screen to make the user aware of them?

I did a jank tooltip to avoid inventing new UI.

I would have liked to split lines on the tooltip but that is... difficult, for structural reasons (that tooltip there is not easily customisable without deriving 3 other components).

[peppy]

I made a couple of changes here:

• Context menu now matches the order of hotkeys. I feel this does a lot to improve the UX as you now have a visual listing which you can refer to to figure out the hotkeys.
• Context menu now updates when using hotkeys, giving further feedback as to what is actually happening when you are using them.

2024-07-04.00.23.00.mp4

@bdach requesting a check of the last two commits since I changed a considerable amount of code.

[bdach]

Changes look good to me 👍