davidlatwe / mousetrap

Trap your mouse in blender text input area.

mousetrap

Trap your mouse in blender text input area, stay focused.

Why?

Blender's text editor and console lose keyboard input focus when mouse cursor is not hovering on those areas. While other graphical interface like search bar or name input field does hold. It's unfair!

Usage

1. Once installed, a mouse-move icon button should appear at right side of console and text editor header.

   

2. Keymap Ctrl + Shift + ` is added for fast activation, or you can just toggle that button.

3. Once activated, your mouse is trapped inside that panel with your keyboard input focus.

4. You can right click to temporary leave the trapping area and move somewhere else, and left click on trapping area to regain focus.

5. Press Esc to deactivate completely.

Bonus

• When mousetrap is on, press Home key moves cursor to the first character in line, instead of line start.
• Ctrl + Up/Down to scroll with cursor (Disabled due to this can cause Blender to crash if the focus was shifted to other application and back.)