Re: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5, user pref??

Date : Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:54:53 +0100
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Guy Rabiller <guy(at)alamaison.fr>
Subject : Re: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5, user pref??
Comon, that's not fair, there are only 5 options in the Preferences ->
Interaction -> Property Editors / Views, plenty room for new options :-)

Better more than less, and send me that brigade, I'll take care of it!
Kote, Men, Do! Ipon!
--
guy rabiller | 3d technical director (at) LaMaison



Halfdan Ingvarsson wrote:

> And then we'll end up hearing from the brigade that believes there to
> be too many preferences already :-)
>  
>  - ½
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Guy Rabiller
> *Sent:* Wed 30-Nov-05 03:26
> *To:* XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> *Subject:* Re: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5, user pref??
>
>
> 1) Why not add a preference saying "Minimize In Place", so the PPG would
> 'minimize' without moving.
> 2) And another option, "Double Click To Minimize", so double clicking on
> the title bar would 'minimize' the PPG rather than 'shade' it.
> 3) And another option, "Dont Resize Title Bar", ( and making it
> resizable of course ).
>
> With these 3 options, we would have back our behavior.
>
> Is this too challenging to be added ?
> --
> guy rabiller | 3d technical director (at) LaMaison
>
>
> kim aldis a écrit :
>
> >Surely, you shouldn't be truncating any of it if you want to know what it
> >says? Just make the bar long enough.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
> >>Sent: 30-November-2005 01:56
> >>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>Subject: RE: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5, user pref??
> >>
> >>Part of the issues we need to address is that when there is
> >>less space than necessary to display a long title, it is the
> >>middle part of the string that must be truncated rather than
> >>the begining or, as in XSI, the end.
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: kim aldis
> >>>Posted At: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:04 PM Posted To: xsi
> >>>Conversation: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5, user
> >>>pref??
> >>>Subject: RE: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5,
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>user pref??
> >>   
> >>
> >>>The old ones were resizeable. There's no guarantee you're going to
> >>>know just how long property names are.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
> >>>>Sent: 29-November-2005 18:41
> >>>>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >>>>Subject: RE: Different PPG "rollup" behaviour XSI 4 and 5,
> >>>>       
> >>>>
> >>>user pref??
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>>Titles not being readable on minimized property pages (and
> >>>>views) is definitely a serious issue we need to address; we will
> >>>>also remove the recycles,lock, follow buttons on
> >>>>       
> >>>>
> >>minimized ppgs and
> >>   
> >>
> >>>>perhaps make the minimized title bars wider.  The
> >>>>       
> >>>>
> >>previous behaviour
> >>   
> >>
> >>>>certainly wasn't useless, but different people from different
> >>>>backgrounds have different reactions to it.
> >>>>
> >>>>------------------
> >>>>Luc-Eric Rousseau
> >>>>Team Leader, User Interface
> >>>>Softimage|XSI
> >>>>       
> >>>>
> >>---
> >>
>
>
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