I do a lot of texturing for presentations in woodgrain and steel, and it would be really handy to have a simple GUI option like the gumball for rotating textures on surfaces. Box mapping is great, but having to make a different box for each surface when there are 20 or 30 with various directionality is really time consuming.
Gumball works on mapping widgets - is that what you mean? You can turn on the mapping widget for the box mapping of an object and monkey with it using Gumball or other transforms.
-Pascal
This is great, exactly what i was looking for, thanks.