Yes, and I think this will be a huge help for everyone!jmaustpc wrote:Today Bejant and I found your tool a great help
Look what you have set as "Type": Edge That's why points are not allowed to be selected in the elements view. When pressing "z" several times until the type changes to Starting point you can select it and the icon changes, too.It reminded me, why is the symbol for a point shown as X? Is this one of the icons that will be changed or could the X have another meaning of which I'm unaware?
In tomorrow's version try to uncheck the "auto-switch to edge", the droplist should enable and you can play with selecting the type from the droplist. The function of that checkbox is that when you change the object hovered with the mouse, the type automatically changes to edge. Without it, you can actually select starting point or endpoint and identify by hovering the mouse the starting/end point of any element hovered..It reminded me, why is the symbol for a point shown as X? Is this one of the icons that will be changed or could the X have another meaning of which I'm unaware?
Instead of having this somewhere in the preferences dialog you can implement this directly in the elements widget. On creation time of the element widgets you can read a boolean value from the parameters and on destruction time write the current status back. So, when using the elements widget the next time it shows the previously set status.I am still thinking about that checkbox, and probably it would make sense to put an option in the sketcher preferences, so that each user can decide if he wants it by default enabled or disabled... let me know what you think...
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TaskSketcherElements::TaskSketcherElements()
{
...
ParameterGrp::handle hGrp = App::GetApplication().GetParameterGroupByPath("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Mod/Sketcher/Elements");
ui->autoSwitchBox->setChecked(hGrp->GetBool("Auto-switch to edge", true));
}
TaskSketcherElements::~TaskSketcherElements()
{
ParameterGrp::handle hGrp = App::GetApplication().GetParameterGroupByPath("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Mod/Sketcher/Elements");
hGrp->SetBool("Auto-switch to edge", ui->autoSwitchBox->isChecked());
}
Ok! done! (in my branch...)Please fix spelling of "Symetric" => "Symmetric".
Yes, for points it only makes sense to select the first vertex. I agree. The "Type" applies to all elements in the list. I can not ignore the type just for some elements, or have some elements in type "Edge" and others in type "First Point". The type applying to all of them, can be changed by pressing "z".For point elements it's only relevant to select the first vertex! I suggest to ignore "Auto switch to edge".
This is never allow (due the socalled fast-forward functionality). if I press "z" in a circle it jumps from edge to center point (does not allow to select first point).For other elements do not allow selecting a vertex that is not relevant for the element type. (disable in them the pull-down menu?)
