NumericEntry

Remarks

Blender's G X 5 ⏎, and doc 24 calls it the single most-missed feature by anybody coming from Blender. No dialog, no field, no mouse precision: you are already dragging, you type, and the drag becomes exact. Nothing in either reference editor has it.

⚠ It costs almost nothing here because the gizmo recomputes from mouse-down. Every frame of a drag is already the pose at the grab plus a magnitude derived from the pointer; typing substitutes the magnitude before the same arithmetic runs. In an implementation that accumulated per-frame deltas it would not be expressible at all — which is why doc 24 lists the gizmo's design as one of the two most valuable things it inherited.

⚠ An axis letter overrides the handle rather than composing with it. Pressing X during a drag is Blender's "along X and nothing else", and a user who has said it has said something more specific than which arrow they happened to grab. Pressing the same letter again releases the constraint.

⚠ The buffer is text, not a float, until it is read. A user typing 1. is midway through 1.5, and a model that parsed every keystroke into a number would show them 1 and then jump. Text is what a readout draws; Typed is what the gizmo applies, and an unparseable component is zero rather than a refusal.

Fields and properties (7)

• public const int Components

  How many components a transform can have typed into it.

• public bool IsActive

  Whether anything has been typed.

• public int Component

  Which component the next keystroke goes into.

• public int Count

  How many components have been started.

• public int Axis

  Which world axis the entry is constrained to, or −1 for none.

• public string Text

  What a readout should show, including the axis letter and the caret.

• public TypedTransform? Typed

  What the gizmo should apply, or if nothing has been typed.

Methods (2)

• public bool Key(InputKey key, ModifierKeys modifiers = None)

  Offers a key to the entry.

• public void Clear()

  Throws everything typed away.

Used by (3)

• PrecisionTestsVixen.Editor.SceneView.Tests
• SceneViewportVixen.Editor.SceneView
• ViewportChromeVixen.Editor.App