Hi Danny,

> should'nt it default back to 'Unnamed' being a new shape/solid.

I'm not really sure...

Right now it kind of leans more to the side of preserving things when possible.

Like for instance when there are colors ready, if you have one solid that is blue and one solid that is red, when you boolean them together, would you expect to have a new solid that is neither blue nor red but instead the "default" color? Right now with such things I'm leaning towards making a new "combined" solid that would have some red faces and some blue faces in it.

The naming is being treated in the same basic way as that, but when you combine 2 solids into 1, if you have applied a name to the top-level object, there is only one "top level" container object that survives the combining... But since it is arbitrary which one survives maybe that case would be good to toss out the name I suppose.

What about with splitting? Currently names will survive that too, with the same name being applied to the split up pieces. Does that seem bad? It seems like it could be useful.

- Michael

> did you know australia means "geometry" in derigydoo?

lol, Burr you Knucklehead :D btw it's derigidoo.

Cheers

Thanks Burr! Please let me know if you run into any problems!

- Michael

Hi Danny, one thing that will probably come in handy for you is that type label in the upper-right corner just to the right of the name.

When you have an object selected that has all joined edges, it will say "Solid" over there so that should be a quick way to tell if your object is a full solid without needing to do any other steps.

That "select naked edges" script will still be handy for the case where you don't have a solid and you want to see where the open edges are, but you won't need to run it just to see if something is a solid or not.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

>What about with splitting?
>Currently names will survive that too, with the same name being applied to the split up pieces
>Does that seem bad? It seems like it could be useful.

mmm, not sure at this stage, I guess I have to use it a bit more before I can answer the question.

Thanks again

Hi Danny, yeah really the name is not particularly useful quite yet - it probably won't really be apparent what to do with some of these specifics until the scene browser tree thing is available, which will use the names more heavily I think.

- Michael

Agree!

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Danny,

I'll see you at the next release!!!??? :)

If there is a chance some time Michael, within minutes I am really missing my TWO special things!
(The old ones don't seem to work)

Brian

Brian,
Here is the first one called sidepane.htm (ref #2)

This is placed in the UI folder.
Be sure to back up the original sidepane.htm before you overwrite it with this.

I dont remember what it's supposed to do so I cant test it first. I'm looking at the #1 file now to get that out to you.
Let me know.
Burr

Here is the 2nd one called commandbar.htm

Same proceedure.

[EDIT]
Brian, Sorry it's late and I didnt get it right. I'll try to straighten it out tommorow.
[EDIT]

Burr,

>I'll see you at the next release!!!??? :)

I'll be there! don't be late...............again! :D



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I suppose in this episode I'm "Eli Wallace"... The heel!

Next time... Clint Baby!

:)

Brian,
Your commandbar and commandbarright files I believe are just reversed but there are some subtle changes in the new beta that I need to look at so it works right. It's late and I've had a couple beers so I'm going to stop here instead of cause more confusion. Check out the new stuff and we'll get you squared away tommorow.

Burr

Hi Burr / Brian - re: deselect part, there are some notes here for how to set that one part up:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1996.13


There is a fair amount of new stuff in the UI in this beta release, so you can't just copy an older version's UI file over top of it or else you'll lose all the new stuff.

Because each beta is kind of a changing and moving target, I'd generally recommend holding off on customizations until v2 is all wrapped up and isn't in flux anymore. But of course you're more than welcome to give it a try if you want - I just won't really be able to focus on it very much myself until things have stabilized.

- Michael

I have quite a lot of notes on the new beta, it will take me until tomorrow to get them all straightened out.

So tomorrow I'll put out a proper notice post with all the notes.

- Michael

A new rock song is born ;=)

Thanks Burr/Michael

Burr---I won't play with that SidePane zip yet--just in case!

Brians Bottom Edge UI
It seens so natural to use for me that I wonder how anyone is happy with the default!
The message--- I hope I don't have to wait untill well into next year. I would go balmy(ier)

Time I went to bed.
Thank you both.

Brian

Brian,
The sidepane file I posted is fine and works. You can get that loaded. Am looking at the other 3 files now to see if the toolbar config will go.