Stacho
Just been having another burst of drawing,
and the changes in 5.3.14 XTherion seem like they will be helpful for new
users, and maybe educate some old users as to what options are available for
various entities!
I did not think I would use the context
menus much, but in fact, although a bit mouse intensive for my liking, they are
often an improvement in workflow. I no longer have to move cursor from
drawing to right-hand menu area and back to drawing all the time. However
typing the names and options does still provide some mouse relief.
I notice a small anomaly in the context
menus for lines of type wall.
Moonmilk is missing off the bottom of the
segment subtype menu.
Also the plurals of stalactite and ‘mite
are missing from the point speleothem menus (I manually typed in the plural in
the screenshot)
A small suggestion. When the
‘type’ symbol is changed (from both context menu and right-hand
menu area) all the options (as far as I have noticed) are reset to their
defaults. This is annoying if you accidentally set the wrong type, set
all the options you want, and then correct the type – only to lose all
the options. My preference would be to leave options as they are, when
the type of an entity is changed (except when changing the ‘type’
is the first operation after creating a new entity). What do other users
think? This could upset some workflows.
And one more thing: I notice these days
the therion command window that opens during the compilation process stays open
and delays access to Xtherion for about 15 sec or more after the compile has
completed. I’m not sure if this is a 5.3.14 thing, or an old dying
Win XP thing. Have only noticed it since 5.3.14
Also, people who have integrated Therion
activation into Notepad++ will need to make a small change to accommodate TclTk
to 8.6, as I noted on the wiki a while back. http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/contrib:externaleditors#notepad
Thanks
Bruce
From:
therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Stacho Mudrak
Sent: Sunday, 23 February 2014
9:09 p.m.
To:
Subject: [Therion] 5.3.14
Hi everybody,
yesterday I have updated xtherion a little bit. "Edit->Hide
inactive scraps" should work now as well as right clicking on point or
line invokes context menu.
If you have some idea, what else should go to context menu or how items
there should be arranged, please let me know.
For windows users: I have upgraded bundled TclTk to 8.6 (in fact, only
8.5 features were needed), but I had to compile it my self. I hope, there will
be no major issues.
Regards, S.