MAC and PC versons need to be synchronized

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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For the (perhaps few) of us who work on both Mac and PC it’s an absolute pain that the two versions are out of sync.:

  • The UI of both MAC and PC both have advantages and disadvantages. McNeel needs to make up their minds of what the Rhino UI should look like!
  • Working on PC in V6 and forgetting to save as V5 before picking up on home MAC has caused a lot of frustration and wasted time so far.

Hope others agree that synchronizing the MAC and PC version of Rhino matters!

Thanks.

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Rhino 6 for mac is available as a WIP version.

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They did… in 2007. Unfortunately, they made up their minds that the interface should be different for the two platforms. And that’s the way it’s going to stay.

The theory was that the “crossover” cases would be few. IMO that part was underestimated, but it’s still a relatively small percentage of users as far as I know. It’s just not a lot of fun if you happen to fall into that particular group.

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Hopefully they will come to their senses :slight_smile:
After all it’s the logic that most apps work with across platforms…

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not entirely… different OS have different paradigms…

for example, should the Save dialogue look/act the same on both versions of Rhino?

because to me, i’d be bummed if a dialog like that didn’t act like all the other ones i’m used to.

(speaking of which, the Grasshopper save dialog is weird on Mac… it’s PC like(?)… you want to hit Return to save but doing that in GH means Cancel… I meant to make a post about it this weekend but ran out of time)

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Hi Jeff

… Just curious … :slight_smile:

Do you really prefer that McNeel split its resources between Win and Mac, slowing down Rhino’s development, instead of working on a single version, graphic interface included ?

BTW … I find this really annoying also on a Win PC … just like toolbar buttons, I regurarly hit Enter after editing a command … and have to do the whole thing again … :unamused:

:smile:

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Hello -
How are you doing this? Enter = OK in the button editor, unless you’re typing in the command area then it is a hard return… ?

-Pascal

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Hi Pascal

You’re right, sorry … I just tried.
I ‘was sure’ to remember that … probably using the RMB as Enter.

Might have been old graphic card drivers (which I updated a week ago … ) :confused:
… Or simply my poor old memory going nuts …

Anyway, thanks for reminding that to me !

Regards