Pressing ESC kills the current 'mode' and is your back door when things go bad.
It's a holdover from Softimage|3D, but is not universally integrated like it
was in Softimage|3D.
Example:
You're in a pick session and pick the wrong object by accident but the
tool doesn't provide a cancel option. Press ESC and it's as if the pick
session never happened.
If you're in a modal dialog, ESC cancels and closes the dialog. Equivalent to
pressing the 'cancel' button.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: softimage interaction
Matt, you don't know if your problem is the same as this. There is no obvious
link between some elusive notification system, timeline or whatever and O/P/Z
tools.
Btw, what's with the "until I hit escape" bit? I'm not aware of anything
linked to the ESC key in Softimage and getting in and out of tools?
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote:
> It’s not sticky key settings.
>
> We’ve had a ton of problems related to this. It seems users migrating
> preference from earlier versions of softimage are affected more, but
> nobody is immune. Creating new user profiles helps, but it’s only a
> matter of time before the problem shows up again.
>
> There is definitely something amiss in the general evaluation of the
> application causing event notifications to get lost in the shuffle or
> confused with others leading to quirky behavior. Almost like a
> pointer going astray and pointing at the wrong object, or a counter in
> a loop skipping elements in the list.
>
>
> Matt
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric
> Rousseau
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:45 AM
>
>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: softimage interaction
>
>
>
> Maybe someone played around with your sticky key time out settings.
> Reset those to defaults (RMB on the preference page name in the
> explorer in the preference window)
>
> On Apr 25, 2014 2:15 PM, "todd peleg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> perhaps it has been discussed before..
>
>
>
> but someone please tell me why softimage changed so i have to
> constantly bang around my keyboard aimlessly to try and go between tools in
> soft...
>
>
>
> modes are staying active after i release the tools... like O.. P... Z...
>
>
>
> i let go and they stay active...
>
>
>
> or i tag something.. hit v.. move it.. then i cant get out of
> translate until i bang around angrily and hit esc..
>
>
>
> i never had to do this before..
>
> what happened?!?!?!?!
>
> and it seems random.. sometimes it stays selected.. sometimes it doesnt...
>
> sometimes it works as a toggle.. sometimes it doesnt..
>
> if they dont fix this.. they should consider shutting down the
> developement of softimage.. (just a suggestion)
>
>
>
> todd
