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: List for Therion users
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.
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