This is kind of a strange gripe I have, but in previous versions of Rhino no matter what part of the UI you had previously interacted with if you weren’t actively selecting a text field you would immediately begin typing into the command prompt. In Rhino 8 I find myself spending a lot more time re-selecting the command prompt. Finish changing a text prompt in a panel and switch back to the properties panel, you need to re-select the command prompt. Change layers in the layers panel, you need to re-select the command prompt. It’s really messing with my flow.
Is there a setting I’m missing somewhere that will fix this, or is this just the new behaviour?
I remember running into that in earlier versions - or I’m just not able to reproduce this right now in the version I’m currently running. Are there any steps that will reliably make this behave like this?
-wim
It happens fairly reliably for me whenever I just change layers. Probably 80% of the time if I change layers and start typing immediately after the command prompt won’t be selected.
It’s strange because it doesn’t happen every time and I can’t figure out if there’s a specific trigger for it.
While we’re talking about weird UX changes that make my life a little bit harder. Another thing that I noticed is that whenever you do a sub-object selection on a polyline, in Rhino 8, after the curve is deselected the points on that curve will still be visible but only the points are selectable. You have to press the escape key in order to interact with that curve in any other way again.
This is really annoying because I usually interact with polylines by selecting their line segments which means that every time I make an edit to a polyline I have to hammer the escape key. I can see how keeping the points on might be convenient if I was working exclusively with curves, but even then, the points stay on until you hit the escape key or run Poff which will slowly fill the screen with points and unselectable geometry until you’re forced to do something about it.
Rhino 6 and 7 fixed a lot of issues with control points where it was very easy and seamless to have them exactly when you needed them and never at any other time without requiring any extra inputs, and Rhino 8 feels like a step backwards in that regard.