[Bricksmith] Feature requests

[Orion Pobursky]

I have a couple of feature requests for Bricksmith:
- Display of mouse pointer coordinates. MLCad has this feature. I use it a lot to align parts to a specific rotation point.
- A keyboard only way to change color. When I add a part I press Cmd-I, Tab to the part list, arrow to the part, and hit enter. The dialog closes and spits me back out to the model display with the new part selected. For color selection I press Cmd-Opt-C, Tab to the color list, arrow to the color, hit enter, and nothing happen except that the color of the part changed. The dialog stays focused. That would be fine if I could simply re-press Cmd-Opt-C to close the dialog but that doesn't work either.

[Allen Smith]

Orion Pobursky Wrote:
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> I have a couple of feature requests for
> Bricksmith:
> - Display of mouse pointer coordinates. MLCad has
> this feature. I use it a lot to align parts to a
> specific rotation point.

I've been wanting this too.

> - A keyboard only way to change color. When I add
> a part I press Cmd-I, Tab to the part list, arrow
> to the part, and hit enter. The dialog closes and
> spits me back out to the model display with the
> new part selected. For color selection I press
> Cmd-Opt-C, Tab to the color list, arrow to the
> color, hit enter, and nothing happen except that
> the color of the part changed. The dialog stays
> focused. That would be fine if I could simply
> re-press Cmd-Opt-C to close the dialog but that
> doesn't work either.

Press Escape twice. That will unfocus the text field and close the panel. (This is standard Mac behavior and works in any application. When a panel window (with the thin title bar) is visible and accepting key events, you can press escape to close it.

By the way, the technique is listed in Help > Secret Keyboard Shorcuts.

That said, my goal is to replace the color panel with something a little more fluid and less obtrusive.

Allen

[Orion Pobursky]

Shame on me for forgetting about the help file... again...