Toggle Shift Button

Feature Requests
#1

Greetings,


I have been more active on Eyewire now that I am on vacations and was wondering how hard it could be to add a toggle for the shift button. Adding a toggle with a 500-1000ms delay would allow eyewirers to have a clearer idea of the boundaries of the target neuron without having to press the shift button like crazy.

Peace!

doctor
#2

Hi doctor,


that’s an interesting idea.  How often are you using that feature.  Personally, I don’t use it that much, but that could just be me…
#3

I am using the shift key for each slice at least once. That has become some kind of natural reflex. Scroll, shift, scroll, shift and so on… :smiley:

But I am not sure, if a toggle will help me to get rid of this habit… I think I would stick with the manual toggle function.

You might want to record the UI-usage for each user to get a wider view on how the eyewire functions are used…

#4

for me, when I want to follow a cell across multiple slices without the color obscuring the view, I can either hold shift and scroll (which most of the time lags and doesn’t give the fluent transition between slices I get when scrolling without shift held down) or set the paint opacity to 0 (time consuming for a quickly needed and temporary action). yes, a shift toggle would help me.

however, for the issue doctor and nkem are having, I think a more appropriate feature would be paint blinking. giving the user an option to turn paint blinking on and off, possibly with a keyboard shortcut, as well as set the interval on their own, would be a great addition IMO. (I too use shift at least once on a slice)

#5

This isn’t a bad idea. We’ll add it to the todo list. :D