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topic: 344Too many confirmation dialogs
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posted: 22 Feb 2008 02:05

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Brian Lewis
 
United Kingdom

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Hi Martin,

I am grateful for your agreeing to allow an opt in of the data page. Now I wonder whether it is possible to go further? My wish list is as follows and questions the continued use of pop ups that question my intentions. In particular:

As I open the programme I get

i Programme information i

Surely this is redundant by now. Most machines have sufficient speed and memory that will allow a normal off-screen refresh mode.

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I click on 'Delete to the Control and get

* Confirm * and the blurb

Now I reckon this must be the most confusing item in the whole of Templot for new users - and the greatest source of irritation to those more experienced. Deleting to the Control is the norm, unless you want to create a copy. So, if it is right, why throw up this confusion causing barrier? I suggest this is the reason what storage boxes often contains legions of duplicates.

This whole copying business I think could be improved. Not necessarily as a replacement to the existing method, but as an alternative, if you know you require a duplicate of the control template, when right clicking could there not be a command, 'Store and background and create a copy.'

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Having highlighted the control template, I press an F key. Immediately I get

  > Handy Hint > and are asked to consider changing to skeleton draw. Now everything I said about 'Programme Information' above applies.

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When I want to print I get:

? Question ? The current printer is (Printer name).

Now if this printer has been calibrated and the calibration settings are in the file, why does it not retrieve them automatically?

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And lastly, when I use F6, why does it always default to the 2nd transition? Surely you want to alter the 1st transition first to get it generally in the right path and only then refine it with the 2nd transition?

Just a few thoughts.

Regards

Brian Lewis


posted: 22 Feb 2008 17:35

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Paul Boyd
 
Loughborough - United Kingdom

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I'm with Brian on this.  It does get a bit tedious having to keep telling Templot to "Don't bother telling me again" every time something new is attempted in a session.  I don't think the program needs to be that "informative" all the way through.  Although new users may find this stuff useful, a new user should quickly become a non-new user!  I suppose what it really needs is a proper user guide people could refer to if they're not sure about something (I'll grab my coat as I run for cover :D)

On the transition curve thing though, I thought whichever curve came up as default was fairly random.  I don't have it here to check though.  I do know that whichever curve I want to change is never the one that comes up first!

posted: 22 Feb 2008 17:50

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richard_t
 
Nr. Spalding, South Holland - United Kingdom

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Paul Boyd wrote:
I'm with Brian on this.  It does get a bit tedious having to keep telling Templot to "Don't bother telling me again" every time something new is attempted in a session. 

Thats what hibernate on modern PC's was invented for. Start Templot, answer all the questions, load your project, background shapes, etc.

When you're finished for the day, instead of shutting down, hibernate instead. Turning the machine back on, Templot is ready waiting for you with your project/background shapes where you left them.

posted: 22 Feb 2008 18:13

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Roderic Cameron
 
Teignmouth, Devon

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Paul Boyd wrote:
On the transition curve thing though, I thought whichever curve came up as default was fairly random.  I don't have it here to check though.  I do know that whichever curve I want to change is never the one that comes up first!

Oh yes! :D

posted: 22 Feb 2008 18:24

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Paul Boyd wrote:
On the transition curve thing though, I thought whichever curve came up as default was fairly random.
Hi Paul,

It comes up with whichever one you used last.

But it's not exactly difficult to swap (and in mid mouse action if you want) -- just press the hyphen/minus (-) or equals (=) keys. That's 1 horizontal line or 2 horizontal lines -- geddit? Or you can click the triangle symbol on the the mouse action panel.

I do know that whichever curve I want to change is never the one that comes up first!
This is a program bug known in the trade as Sod's Law, and so far all my attempts to fix it have failed. :)

regards,

Martin.

posted: 22 Feb 2008 21:37

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Paul Boyd
 
Loughborough - United Kingdom

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But it's not exactly difficult to swap (and in mid mouse action if you want) -- just press the hyphen/minus (-) or equals (=) keys. That's 1 horizontal line or 2 horizontal lines -- geddit? Or you can click the triangle symbol on the the mouse action panel.
Actually, the -, =, [ and] keys are very handily placed in a neat little group which makes tweaking curves fast and easy, with the odd reach for the F6 key now and then!  No, I hadn't noticed the 1 line or 2 lines bit!!!

If you could fix the Sod's Bug when you have a spare 5 minutes, the world will beat a path to your door :)

posted: 23 Feb 2008 01:29

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Simon Dunkley
 
Oakham - United Kingdom

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Paul Boyd wrote:
If you could fix the Sod's Bug when you have a spare 5 minutes, the world will beat a path to your door :)
My wife's trying to be a better psychiatrist, in the hope that the world will beat a psychopath to her door...

Simon

(Sorry, couldn't resist it. She is a shrink, though. You should hear what she thinks of some railway modellers.)



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