Ade-gp 0.0.59

[GHD]

Cannot select a line pattern. The "Line Pattern/Style" combo box is inactive:



It is ok in 0.0.58

 

[gadgets]

George, the Line Type selection combobox works for me - but it does work differently from yesterday. The line types no longer pop-up when you select the texture. Now, the available line types are loaded into the Line Type combobox and the text portion initialized with the currently-selected line type name - if any. (If no current selection, I should probably add "No style selected" in the text portion of the combobox to let you know styles are available.)

Which brings me to the question I intended to ask you this morning anyway. When you send me an ADE file, there are generally no line types specified in it. (Things display otherwise as they should because the X/Y and U/V information is there - but not the line type.) That appears also to be the case with the screenshot above.

Any idea what you are doing to clear the line type?

Don

 

[tgibson]

Hi,

I agree, George. The new Line Style combo box seems to work fine when editing an existing line, but that combo box is empty when creating a new line.

I can get it textured using a two step process (assign the texture, click OK, back into the Editor, select the line style), but that shouldn't be necessary.

And I can confirm that flips do not seem to "stick" between editor sessions - when I come back to edit the line, the vertices are back in their original, pre-flipped positions.

Finally, if I try to edit a polygon nothing I do will activate the OK button - it stays grayed out. All I can do is Cancel.

Hope this helps,

 

[tgibson]

Here is an example of what I get when I try to define the line style of a new line - note the empty Line/Pattern Style combo box:

Hope this helps,

 

[gadgets]

I can get it textured using a two step process (assign the texture, click OK, back into the Editor, select the line style), but that shouldn't be necessary.

I can easily (I think) drop down the Line Style combo box when you select a texture.

And I can confirm that flips do not seem to "stick" between editor sessions - when I come back to edit the line, the vertices are back in their original, pre-flipped positions

I'll check it out.

Finally, if I try to edit a polygon nothing I do will activate the OK button - it stays grayed out. All I can do is Cancel.

Yes, I can see that. I must have broken that yesyerday. New release shortly.

Don

 

[gadgets]

Here is an example of what I get when I try to define the line style of a new line - note the empty Line/Pattern Style combo box

Now, that's unusual! I've certainly never seen it before.

Don

 

[GHD]

George, the Line Type selection combobox works for me - but it does work differently from yesterday. The line types no longer pop-up when you select the texture. Now, the available line types are loaded into the Line Type combobox and the text portion initialized with the currently-selected line type name - if any. (If no current selection, I should probably add "No style selected" in the text portion of the combobox to let you know styles are available.)

Perhaps that is what it should do, but, the combo-box is empty with nothing to select. (see the first screenshot)

Which brings me to the question I intended to ask you this morning anyway. When you send me an ADE file, there are generally no line types specified in it. (Things display otherwise as they should because the X/Y and U/V information is there - but not the line type.) That appears also to be the case with the screenshot above.

Any idea what you are doing to clear the line type?

Don

I am not doing anything to clear the line type. It is certainly in ADE



and selected in 0.0.58



All I can say is that the combo-box is empty in 0.0.59.

 

[gadgets]

Quote:
Here is an example of what I get when I try to define the line style of a new line - note the empty Line/Pattern Style combo box

Now, that's unusual! I've certainly never seen it before.

Tom, my "unusual" was referring to the horizontal line. I just realized that that was just the lat/lon coordinates translated.

I've found and fixed the reason for the new combobox not being filled on new lines. (It was, however, being filled on edits when it found Lines_def entriy(s).

Perhaps that is what it should do, but, the combo-box is empty with nothing to select. (see the first screenshot)

Any chance the lines_def file you are using does not contain the corresponding entries?

I am not doing anything to clear the line type. It is certainly in ADE

I doubt Jon will like that! Just to make sure it's not something that has been fixed along the way, please send me a file that displays on your system with ADE showing line types.

Don

 

[scruffyduck]

I doubt Jon will like that! Just to make sure it's not something that has been fixed along the way, please send me a file that displays on your system with ADE showing line types.

For Don

ADE saves the gp private data that is associated with the line as a whole. So it should be in the file on load. Most of the properties of a line are taken with reference to the private data rather than being saved as separate properties. I would need to check the circumstances under which that data could be lost in ADE.

What I am aware of is that there were some problems for George displaying Texture types when first implemented - I don't think we ever got to the bottom of that.

 

[gadgets]

Just in case you are not monitoring the other thread, I've just posted 0.0.60.

Don

 

[gadgets]

And I can confirm that flips do not seem to "stick" between editor sessions - when I come back to edit the line, the vertices are back in their original, pre-flipped positions.

Tom and George (you reported this too). Are you referring to flips in general -or flips of Lines?

Poly flips work OK for me. I suspect it's only line flips, and that's because lines with a line type are regenerated each time. I'll investigate that, but I may not be able to do anything about it other than to disable flips on such lines. (Until we got into the "slanted line business", there was no reason nto flip a line, so it didn't matter.)

Don

 

[tgibson]

Please don't disable line flips. It's OK, as long as we are warned in the manual to reflip any such line when edited.

 

[gadgets]

OK, I won't.

Don