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Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:37:13 GMT

So all of a sudden I cannot double click with my arrow tool to get into the modifying text box of the note.

Any ideas?

I don't mean going through the Label Settings dialogue box.

And I CAN double click with in the label to modify the text if I have the Label tool selected.

I used to be able to do that with my arrow tool selected.

So not a big deal. And there are a million ways around it. But still good to know and understand what how things work around here right?

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Brad Elliott — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:16:56 GMT

I'm on 10 and Mac but I have to click once to select the note (I presume we are talking about the Label Tool) and then double click to edit the text for a total of three clicks. And I can't click too fast. Click, pause, item now selected, double click.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:34:21 GMT

Yes, usually me too.
Not anymore. Seems strange.

It is actually a coworker having this problem.
Let me see if he has this issue in other projects on his computer.
I am not having the problem on mine.

I'll be back.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

__archiben — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:52:25 GMT

Jesikuh123 wrote:
Yes, usually me too.
Not anymore. Seems strange.

i can double click from both the arrow tool and from any other tool whilst holding SHIFT. 2 clicks and i'm editing.

make sure that the display order isn't effecting things. for example, if you have a fill with a transparent background, or a detail marker boundary, over the top of the label it will get those first. in that case you would need to have the label tool active in your toolbox for the label to take selection priority.

why anyone still uses the arrow tool is beyond me though - just hold SHIFT from anywhere and you have arrow tool functionality...

~/archiben

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Rod Jurich — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:41:43 GMT

Jesikuh123 wrote:
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Any ideas?
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By chance ave you turned the magnet off?

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Rex Maximilian — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:15:24 GMT

Rod wrote:
Jesikuh123 wrote:
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Any ideas?
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By chance ave you turned the magnet off?

I mentioned in another thread how I always turn off the magnet tool. So, in addition to using the shift-space chord action for selecting items without changing to the arrow, I also automatically apply that technique to editing text--no matter what tool is active.

It's a great "catch all" key action that saves so much time!

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:01:26 GMT

It didn't seem to be an issue with the magnet selected or not.
I guess maybe it was just a weird thing in that specific project.
But, in any event, they guy just copied averything into a new file and started over so I guess we don't need ot figure out what was wrong with it.

Rex- what are you talking about with the shift-space?

I know I can press shift anytime to get ahold of anything while doing anything. But what is the space all about?

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Pete — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:47:00 GMT

Ahhh, I see. Space first then shift. Space invokes a temporary magnet so you can leave the magnet off if you want and press space when you need it. Thanks Rex.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:14:07 GMT

Hi Rex,

I didn't know about turning off the magnet tool and using space bar to activate. Space bar = magic wand : just an old silly habit...

Thanks for sharing

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:57:02 GMT

This, I did not know either.

I see that it also works Vice Versa. Magnet On- Press Space Bar= Magnet Off.

I don't know that I see what advantage this brings me, but I will be remebering that it is there, and making some use of it.

OH- and, I went to tell a couple co -workers about it and they allready knew about it- from a while ago even. I hate it when I do that. Humbles me a little though.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:41:50 GMT

The advantage is that if you want to select a number of items that are within a slab or a fill, (and you have magnet ON as I do most of the time) you hold down SHIFT and SPACE and can rubber-band your selection over the items without selecting the slab (or fill) by mistake.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Link — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:03:38 GMT

I always have it on too Stuart. I find it much friendlier to use space bar to temporarily disable it than to temporarily enable it. I can't see any benefit of doing it in reverse.

Different horses, I guess....

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:02:54 GMT

Link wrote:
I always have it on too Stuart. I find it much friendlier to use space bar to temporarily disable it than to temporarily enable it. I can't see any benefit of doing it in reverse.

Pre-AC10 and the pre-selection highlight, I used to tell people to keep it off -- we had a lot of slabs and roofs accidentally being erased. Now, I see no reason to turn it off -- my 2 cents.

Re: Maybe Silly. Probably not Necessary. Leader Question

Bruce — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:49:25 GMT

I'm just the opposite - I hate having all my slabs light up when I move over them. I find it really annoying (and I'm not a horse Link 😉)