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Re: Another idea
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:11:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Gary Williams writes:
> For the CAD system I'm developing, I'm planning to have multiple ways of
> issuing commands:
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> Drop-down and pop-up menus
> Speedbuttons
> Keyboard shortcuts (configurable to user preferences)
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> and...
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> Command line interface (like in AutoCAD)
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> In AutoCAD I often find it fastest to use the command line interface. For
> example, if I want to draw a line, I can type "line" or just enough
> characters to specify a unique command (e.g., "l") and thus avoid having to
> drag the mouse all the way across the display to click a line button, then
> drag it back to the work area. For this program I imagine commands like
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> roll 90
> (to rotate the selected pieces around the x axis; there would also be pitch
> for the z axis, yaw for the y axis, etc.)
Please, oh please make it "rotate x 90" (like "offset" command below).
> flip y
> (to flip the selected pieces in the y direction)
I assume this is equivalent to "rotate y 180".
> offset y +5
> (to move a part 5 ldraw units in the +y direction)
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> hsnap 20
> (to set horizontal snap granularity (distance) in LDraw units; there would
> also be a vsnap command)
I think these probably need to be "snap [x|y|z] 20" as well, unless you're
gonna implement them separately for all three axis views, which could become
confusing.
> snap on|off
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> shadow on|off
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> zoom all|window|previous
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> etc.
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> ...the idea being that *every* command would be available through both menus
> and the command line interface, while the user would be able to assign up to
> 26 commands to normal keyboard shortcuts, and pick which speedbuttons he
> wanted.
Hmmm. As others have said, 26 may not be enough!
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| (...) pitch (...) I could have 'rotate <axis> <angle>' as an alias for roll, pitch, and yaw <angle>, as appropriate. No problem. (...) That's not what I had intended. Imagine a clockwise helix (spring). "flip y" would turn it into a counterclockwise (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| For the CAD system I'm developing, I'm planning to have multiple ways of issuing commands: Drop-down and pop-up menus Speedbuttons Keyboard shortcuts (configurable to user preferences) and... Command line interface (like in AutoCAD) In AutoCAD I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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