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  • Published 29 Nov 2017

Typing leading Zeros auto-completes Decimal Point

Typing 05 Enter becomes 0.5

005 becomes 0.05 etc.

The argument for it would be that a lot in blender happens in the 0.0 - 1.0 range, so it could make sense

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atair
29 Nov 2017

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jason

I'm not sure I understand the advantage of this. Is the period/dot button really that far away?

I know that for myself, this would be confusing and unexpected behavior (I tend to add leading zeros by mistake when I type numbers, so I expect that zero to just disappear unless I add the decimal point). How would it be obvious to users what's going on here?

atair Author

@Jason van Gumster:

The idea came because many laptops have no numpad, so it is in fact a bit fast without a decimal

and also the thought was nobody would add leading zeros without intent to write a fraction (which is obviously not true for you)

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