Templot Club Archive 2007-2020
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posted: 4 Jun 2007 12:14 from: Alan Turner
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would it be possible to add a floating pad/toolbar that contained the most used operations? Preferably user assembled but if that is not possible I could suggest a few operations to include. Alan |
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posted: 16 Jun 2007 00:05 from: Martin Wynne
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Alan Turner wrote: would it be possible to add a floating pad/toolbar that contained the most used operations? Preferably user assembled but if that is not possible I could suggest a few operations to include.Hi Alan, It's possible but there are several thorny issues. 1. Choosing what to include. A user-customised toolpad would be great, but a lot of work -- not in the functionality but in devising the user interface to set it up. 2. If you have a subset of common functions, some users may tend to use it exclusively and eventually forget that there are many other functions available, or never find them in the first place. 3. Screen space. I have tried hard not to have Templot looking like some programs, where you perform keyhole surgery in a tiny space surrounded by massed ranks of toolbuttons and icons. Trackwork tends to need plenty of space to work on. Even so, some things always seem to be in the way -- the shove timbers dialog for example. Generally, if you want to speed things up I think the keyboard shortcuts are the better solution. If you prefer to click something rather than use the keyboard, have you tried using Templot with the Windows on-screen keyboard?* To get the F6 curving mouse action for example, you can just click the F6 key on the screen keyboard. You can drag the keyboard around, so this would give you a floating toolpad of sorts. Just an idea. Don't forget to print out the keyboard chart, and there is also a list of all the shortcuts, which you can print, in the "help" menu. *Start > Programs > Accessories > Acccessibility > On-Screen Keyboard: onscreen_kbd.png  It has some menu settings. I find the Keyboard > Block Layout shown is very clear, with bold Verdana as the font. I have been thinking of including it in the videos. regards, Martin. |
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