Leonardo Zide <leozide@...> writes: > > > > Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you liked the program. The newer versions also have new features like more colors and pieces so I'll try to fix the issues you found. > > > The keyboard shortcuts not being saved is just me making a dialog that's not very intuitive. You have to save the shortcuts to a file using the button in the keyboard tab and they will be there next time you start the program but there's no message telling you to do that. Actually the entire Preferences dialog is confusing, some options are saved per file and others are global, which is not good design. >
Oh I see, I didn't realize saving the shortcuts to a file was necessary. I think it's a nice option if I feel like trying out a new set of shortcuts for a while. Also, I assumed "OK" would global save Preferences, but I see now it's "Make default", which is not illogical. No problem. > I was undecided about the best way to save the view layout so I ended up not saving it at all, I'm still not sure if it's better to have it saved per project or globally. I like saving it globally more but then the camera positions won't make much sense when loading different files. > Hahaha I see. Similar to Preferences, I would like to be able to save a default view layout so I wouldn't have to split and add every time...but that's a good point about the cameras. Could the program load a user-defined default set of cameras, like my favorite Main + Front + Top? That way the actual camera positions wouldn't have to be saved globally for all projects, just which cameras to show views from. I remember when I played around Maya back in the day, I had a shortcut key for ortho (front/top/side) views, but if I left it in 4-panel view and closed, when I brought it up again it would be 4-panel. > As for the mirror problem, I think I couldn't find a good solution because I was trying to make a generic mirror that would work on any direction/offset. If I were to try it again I'd just have a function to mirror on only 1 of the X/Y/Z planes, probably using the new mouse arrows from the last version. An xyz mirror function would be fine, if someone wanted to mirror on a different axis they could just work out the simple math and offset/rotate the pieces by putting in the numbers. > > I'll look into these bugs and see what I can get fixed for the next version. I appreciate your work! I'm not a software engineer myself so I have no idea how hard is it to do these things, but I imagine it must be pretty difficult and you've got other main projects on your list. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Leocad mailing list [email protected] https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad
