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topic: 2012Name labels moving unexpectedly?
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posted: 10 Jul 2012 22:48

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dave turner
 
United Kingdom

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Hi perhaps someone could explain whether the following is expected behaviour or not.

I have been experimenting with creating slips and took advantage of the arrange name labels function in order to make it easy to select partial templates.

I notice however that once I select a partial template again the label immediately moves to a random position whether or not any changes are made to the template.

I have found this irritating as I have to rearrange the labels repeatedly. Have I missed something?

regards

Dave


posted: 10 Jul 2012 23:18

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Hi Dave,

No, you haven't missed anything.

The control template doesn't have a label, so when you delete a background template to the control template, the label position data is lost.

There is a setting at main > program panel > program > template name labels > to control the initial label position, but that doesn't take any account of any previous position.

The functions to arrange the labels are intended for use after the track plan design is finalized, to create a neat result for display. The assumption is that while you are actually working on the design, the position of the labels is not important.

I agree though that it is sometimes annoying to lose the tidy label arrangement after making a further design change. I will look again at this. :)

regards,

Martin.

posted: 10 Jul 2012 23:45

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dave turner
 
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Martin

Thank you for your reply. The difficulty is particularly noted when the labels have been moved to enable easier selection of partial templates. I do take your point, made in an earlier topic, that new labels were positioned at random in order to avoid overlaying. Please note that the label changes whichever method (delete wipe or make) is employed, however I guess that that is implicit if the control template doesn't have a label.

On a minor point apologies for the double post I'm not sure what happened there.

regards

Dave

posted: 11 Jul 2012 01:52

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TimRKirby
 
Saint Paul - USA

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Martin Wynne wrote:

I agree though that it is sometimes annoying to lose the tidy label arrangement after making a further design change. I will look again at this. :)


Perhaps it would be sufficient to add a radio button type artifact that 'locks' all the labels wherever they are while working. That would appear to address the need to stop things from moving at random but (completely absent any actual knowledge of the code) seems like it should be relatively easy to add as a property to a label.

I'll shut up now and return to appreciative lurking...

Tim



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