Hi Dave, some kinds of bug fixes can just be too risky to attempt right near the end of a beta cycle, especially if the bug fix will involve altering some sensitive or heavily used area.

In this case it would involve altering behavior that happens on every selection, that's such a frequently occuring and important area that I'm just not comfortable with making any changes to what happens after every selection at the end of the beta cycle.

It seems that the "Selected/Unselected" sub categories in Types just were not used by anyone at all until recently, otherwise this bug would have surfaced earlier. That also makes it hard to justify a potentially disruptive fix when it is in such a little used area.

There is a lot of potential with any change to actually introduce new problems and bugs even while fixing some other one. That's why it can sometimes be better to actually not attempt to fix a bug, especially if it is in a "high potential danger" area, and for a "low usage" type area.

Anyway, I hope that will explain the reasons why it can be better to defer some bug fixes.

Basically, making any changes at all to heavily used areas right before shipping a final product without any beta testing of them is not a good recipe for stability.

- Michael

Hi Dave, after thinking about it a bit, I think the best choice for this is to remove those "selected" and "unselected" type sub-categories from the Scene Browser by default.

You'll be able to re-enable them by a setting in the moi.ini file and also if that is set I will update the scene browser when selection changes so that you should be able to avoid the workaround.

That way there will be some protection from any potential bad side effect from having the Scene Browser updated with every selection change.

The setting in the moi.ini file will be under:

[Scene Browser]
EnableSelectionSubTypes=n

- Michael

Michael,

Sounds like a good idea to me! This actually will eliminate the bug, since it should work as expected when it is enabled in the .ini file.

I've also thought about what I was trying to do a bit more and realized that I can get a much faster workflow by binding 'hide selected' and 'unhide all' to keys. But I'm also a big fan of having things work correctly, so your fix should definitely help out. Might even give you one less thing to do in V3. I'm glad my complaint had such a positive effect :-)