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Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
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Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:53:13 GMT
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Sorry, two more suggestions:
  • Changing the color of multiple parts appears to be a royal PITA, because the Inspector palette just says “Multiple Selection”. Well, yes, I know I have a multiple selection -- I want to inspect it anyway! You could still show the average position (and allow this to be changed), and as for color, show the color swatch -- perhaps with a line through it or some such if there are multiple colors, but still allow me to click it to set all the selected parts to a new color.

  • Also, while moving parts around with the keyboard is probably good for detail work, I’d really like the option of dragging them around with the mouse too. Perhaps you could support control-drag (or 2nd-mouse-button-drag) for this.
Best,
- Joe



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  Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
 
Dear Joe, I'll write more about your previous (good!) suggestions when I have more time later. For now, I'll point you in the direction of the Tools menu, where you'll find a "Show Colors" selection. You'll notice that the Colors palette tracks (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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  Re: Announcing Bricksmith for Macintosh
 
(...) First, let me say: Great work, Allen! We Mac-using ALEs really appreciate efforts like this. Initial impressions: Wow -- an LDraw editor that I can just download and use! I didn't have to install anything extra or futz about with paths; I just (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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