When I am drawing a Polyline in line mode and hit the “M” key to change it to arc it does not work. The letter M appears in the Value text box but does not change the mode.
The only way I can make Rhino use to shortcut to change modes while I am drawing is to go into the general settings and uncheck the “Use Command Option Dialog”. The shortcut to change the mode works as long as I don’t display the dialog window. Is this a bug or am I doing something incorrectly?
That sounds like a bug but I can’t reproduce that here:
This is with 8.22 running on an Apple M3 Max MBP with macOS 15.5. No external screens.
From your systeminfo, you are on a Mac mini with two screens attached. Does it make a difference if you only use a single monitor?
-wim
Unplugged the second screen. Restarted Rhino and retried… Same result.
You can see the input value box where I type “M” to change the mode in both situations.
Maybe the the way the input is handled by the floating window vs the windowed container boxed dialog box when the “Use Command Option Dialog” box is not checked. ( not sure I’m using the right terms here). At the end of the video you can see the dialog box go back a toolbar state.
I guess there is difference between the two dialogs and how they receive the the “Letter Shortcut” input. Hope you can reproduce this.
This what I got so far…
Installed a fresh user account that never had Rhino ran on it to eliminate any Pref files the might be interfering. So Rhino was running on that account as a fresh install.
Started Rhino is Default setup. General Settings “Use Command Options Dialog” Unchecked.
Command Window docked in Left sidebar by default.
Result: Shortcut Keys DO NOT work.
Pulled command window out of sidebar as floating window
Result: Shortcut keys DO work
Went into Settings: General: Command Window: Enabled “Use Command Option Dialog”
Result: Shortcut keys DO NOT work.
Conclusion: The only way I am getting my shortcut keys to work is to have Use Command Option Dialog unselected and undocked on the left toolbar.
I also confirmed this on a second intel mac running a slightly older 8.21 version of rhino.
Same steps to test, same result.
Here is another video of shortcut keys not working as they should. Can someone confirm test these settings on Mac Rhino to see if It’s me or if there is a bug. I know @wim said they could not reproduce the issue, just wanted to know if its not functioning for others as well.
It’s not that I need it for just polyline, but these kind of shortcut keys are spread throughout all command line tools in Rhino which can be a pain if not working as it should. Maybe this is wider issue that has more to do with the other threads about Mac Keyboard shortcuts not working..IDK.
