Timeline > Playback > Follow Current Frame Does not work if you drag the frame number widget. #110620

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funty · 2023-07-30T02:29:02+02:00

funty commented

2023-07-30 02:29:02 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Win 10
Graphics card: AMD R7 200

Blender Version
Broken: Blender 3.61 release.
Worked: never, checked back till 2.83.20

Short description of error
Follow Current Frame only works with keyboard arrow keys and ALT+Middle mouse button dragging in the timeline editor area
Does not work with the click and drag area of the Timeline header current frame box, or its arrow buttons

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
As show in attached video

Open Default General file
In the Timeline, Click on Playback > Follow Current Frame
Drag the frame number widget, the frame indicator will go outside the region, while if use play or keyboard arrow keys, region follows the frame indicator.
Expectation is that it should follow the frame, regardless of where the current frame is being changed from.

**System Information** Operating system: Win 10 Graphics card: AMD R7 200 **Blender Version** Broken: Blender 3.61 release. Worked: never, checked back till 2.83.20 **Short description of error** Follow Current Frame only works with keyboard arrow keys and ALT+Middle mouse button dragging in the timeline editor area Does not work with the click and drag area of the Timeline header current frame box, or its arrow buttons **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** As show in attached video 1. Open Default General file 2. In the Timeline, Click on Playback > Follow Current Frame 3. Drag the frame number widget, the frame indicator will go outside the region, while if use play or keyboard arrow keys, region follows the frame indicator. 4. Expectation is that it should follow the frame, regardless of where the current frame is being changed from.

FollowFramebl361.mkv

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labels 2023-07-30 02:29:03 +02:00

YimingWu changed title from ~~Timeline > Playback > Follow Current Frame only works with arrow keyboard keys.~~ to Timeline > Playback > Follow Current Frame Does not work if you drag the frame number widget.

2023-07-30 11:39:30 +02:00

YimingWu added

Module

User Interface

Status

Needs Info from Developers

and removed

Status

Needs Triage

labels 2023-07-30 11:39:48 +02:00

YimingWu commented

2023-07-30 11:42:51 +02:00

This might be a general limitation of the UI since the frame set callback is used not only by the widget, and it also needs to prevent timeline scrolling if you manually drag the frame indicator since if not the region would jump. Might be fixable by checking the context during the set callback.