53) Losing connection with license server doesn't allow you to save all your work.
I had many scripts open in a text editor on my 2nd monitor when my IT department decided to reboot servers as part of a maintenance schedule. Softimage popped up the lost connection license and asked if I wanted to save the scene, but it wouldn't give me access to the 'file > save as...' menus in the text editor. As a result, I lost my work in progress code. Also, even after saving the scene, the popup wouldn't go away. I had to click 'abort' to kill the session. In years past, softimage would automatically detect when the license server came back online and reconnect. But apparently under autodesk that is no longer the behavior. Matt From: Matt Lind Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:03 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Small Annoying Things Yeah, it's basically Maya mode. I hate that mode as you spend more time expanding/collapsing sections than actually working with the information. Tab style editor is much more functional and less clutter. Matt From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:33 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Small Annoying Things Display As List is not the default, try it. On Aug 24, 2012 1:27 PM, "Matt Lind" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If "Display as List" was supposed to be removed, then why is it the default behavior out of the box? Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:24 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things I think this "Display as List" is a pre-XSI 1.0 experiment we forgot to remove after the developer left. There is an almost impossible to find "Tab-Style Property Editors" user preference option that's been a little more popular in some crowds On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Eugen Sares <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I used it to compare/copy params from one shader to another, > side-by-side, and for screenshots showing everything at one glance. A rare > case maybe. > Besides, if the list header bars were a bit more pronounced in the > colour or size, it would probably be used more often. > Thanks, > Eugen > > Am 24.08.2012 15:00, schrieb Chris Chia: > >> Just a qn: why list is preferred than tabs? >> >> On 24 Aug, 2012, at 8:57 PM, "Eugen Sares" >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> here's a small bug regarding PPGs: >>> >>> - open some PPG >>> - RMB on the property name, "Display as list" >>> - RMB on the property name, "Refresh" >>> -> the list sectors disappear, except the first. >>> >>> You have to choose "Display as Tab Deck" to make it display >>> correctly again.
