Timeline Improvements

[OverloadedOrama]

Feature/enhancement description:
v0.7 came with a new timeline, but I think there is still a lot of room for improvement. Some ideas that I have are:

• Frame-specific delay. (Issue Can each frame have a custom delay? #267 - implemented in Frame properties #357)
• Drag and drop individual cels to move them around. (27852b2)
• Hold Control and mouse wheel to resize cels in the timeline. (7f1594e)
• Create a button for each for frame instead of a label. Left clicking it selects the frame, right clicking it opens a menu with options suck as remove, clone, move & properties. (39b0bac and ecd08ce)
• Change the right click menu of the cels. It's currently frame-related, while it should be cel-related. (ecd08ce)
• Clicking on a layer button selects the layer. Double clicking it allows renaming. (e7a5b45)
• Put Delete and Link/Unlink in the cel right click menu. (1a87321)
• Drag and drop entire frames and layers to move them around. Their cels will also get moved with them. (e9bf310)
• Press Control to select multiple cels, and Shift to select multiple cels along with the cels between them. Pressing Control a on a selected cel would de-select it, unless it's the only selected cel. (de850ce)
• Changes made to a selected cel will also affect all other selected cels. That includes tools (like drawing with pencil) and image effects. (de850ce)
• Figure out where to put cel opacity and layer opacity. Layer opacity does not exist yet.

The list may be edited to include more ideas in the future.

[novhack]

I have a big monitor and I would really like an option to resize cels. 🙂

[Erevoid]

Got some more ideas regarding tags:

• The ability to move the tag with its cels left or right in the timeline (in regards to other tags or single untagged frames)
• By right clicking the tag name there can be a popup with tag properties (to change the delay to each cel in all of the tags) and
• The ability to clone all of the cels of a tag and make a cloned tag with [tagname]_2 on its name by default.

Those changes make the tags much more valuable and can save a lot of animation time.

[OverloadedOrama]

2021-02-01.18-46-22.mp4

Cel drag and dropping and cel resizing have been implemented and will included in the next version.