The logic is the menu shows the shading mode that will become active when you middle click the menu. If no mode had been chosen yet, then it can't be anything other than NONE. Therefore NONE would make perfect sense, especially if you read the manuals. :)
If you start up the application then immediately middle click the shade mode menu, most computers will switch to SHADE mode, but not all computers did that. Some stayed in wireframe. Therefore it would be wrong to display WIRE or SHADE in the viewport title bar as the initial value. The only acceptable time WIRE or SHADE could be the initial value is if the application were programmed to ensure one of those modes would be active upon middle click. Displaying the next mode makes more sense when the menu has only two choices such as a boolean value (check box), but even then I would prefer to see the current setting. The shade mode menu had many choices depending on what kind of view it was. So to show what was next was rather confusing when everything else in the UI was displaying the current setting. In my opinion it should've displayed the current shade mode. Believe it or not, there are instances where two different shade modes can produce the same result which only makes the displayed value all the more confusing. When you're in a collaborative environment working with other people and discussing things, you need to keep track of various settings for comparisons / critiques of work so you can give constructive criticism and instruction. Can you imagine if every menu in the application showed you what would happen under a middle click instead of the actual value? You wouldn't be able to figure anything out. It could say SCHEMATIC, but you'd be clearly looking at the top view as evidenced by the objects in the display. Instead of showing the current frame number, the timeline shows the next frame you'll skip to when you set a keyframe (or the previous key you already set). Huh??? The only time I'd find it handy is if it could display which click will crash the application. There were plenty of those opportunities. Matt Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 00:44:52 +0200 From: “Sven Constable” <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> Subject: RE: Friday Flashback #384 To: "'Official Softimage Users Mailing List. So a consistent, logical solution would have been “NONE” as the default label, I agree. But wouldn't it be more confusing especially since it it's only displayed once at start and then never again? Every viewport had to display something at start (wireframe back then) so its not that disorienting because it showed the correct shading mode at first launch. As soon as the user started to work and switching back and forth between shading modes (most likely in the camera view only), it switched gears and changed to show which mode the user will switch to. Kind of a work mode that kicked in as the user changed the view for the very first time. I might be a quirk somehow but it was useful to me (after I got it) and I think it was intended. ;) Sven ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
