Easies way to create an object in exact location

 From:  Michael Gibson
1727.29 In reply to 1727.28 
Thanks Tony - It is a lot more common for programs to kind of have a separate "point readout" (that shows the point under the mouse) and "point input" areas (to type in coordinates).

I did worry about some confusion on that when I made that single "double-duty" control that does readout and input both, that is probably what got you. (because it may be easy to think that it is a readout area only).

But it saves so so very much screen real estate to have things like this that solve more than one problem with the same piece of UI, it's a pretty necessary thing to keep the UI streamlined.

Also one other note - you can click on that control if you want to which will pop up the input panel with buttons on it, but you can also usually just start typing directly and your keystrokes will automatically go there. Like if you want to start a line at the coordinate 2,5 - start the line command and then just type 2,5 <enter> directly without clicking on that box first.

- Michael