Disable Sorting in the Hierarchy Window

[Andy]

Drag and drop already exists in the hierarchy. Try dragging the object name, the pointer should turn into a target thing.

[Snow]

But there's no automatic scrolling if you reach the top or bottom of the hierarchy window.
If you need to drag the item further, it's necessary, to drop it somewhere, scroll the window, search your item and drag it further, drop it somewhere, search your item and drag it further...

I wrote "search your item", because - as already mentioned - it isn't possible to drop something between two groups.

[papamac]

Originally Posted by Andy

Drag and drop already exists in the hierarchy. Try dragging the object name, the pointer should turn into a target thing.

Sorry. I misspoke. I know that D&D exists, but it only works properly when working with individual objects. If you have multiple groups in the hierarchy, as we almost always do, & you try inserting a group between two other groups the dropped group ends up in one or the other of the adjacent groups.

[Andy]

OK - this replacement hierarchy script supports automatic scrolling whilst dragging hierarchy stuff above or below the window. Please try it and let me know if it works for you.

Will work on all platforms. Replace your existing ac3dhier.tcl file in the tcl folder with this (you may want to rename the original file so you can put it back later).

Note that it does not add any other new features being discussed in this thread since they require a new binary/platform specific release and cannot be implemented in scripts.

[Snow]

Automatic scrolling should become active when reaching the edge of the display area of the window and not the window frame.

First I thought, scrolling down isn't working, because I reached the lower end of the hierarchy and nothing happened.

It's also not compatible with the mouse-wheel scrolling.

[Andy]

OK - try this one. This will scroll when you reach the bottom.

Scrollbar is now the same length of the scroll area. Also moved the selection-info bar to the top, which seems more logical since it's now near the selection buttons.

Snow - Please explain what you mean with the scroll-wheel problem.

[Snow]

This is working fine so far, but the mouse wheel scrolling is messed up.
To reproduce, scroll with the mouse wheel in a new, empty project.

[Andy]

Glad it helps.

I think the mousewheel scrolling may have done that in the original but I'll look into it.