Mac vs Windows UI inconsistencies

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@Tom_P and others working on Mac,

I’ve been logging inconsistency issues today for Rhino for Mac UI. I was looking for Space/Enter/RMB not working, amongst other things. I’ll keep looking for others. I’m mainly interested in cross platform UI inconsistency, but feel free to add other types.

I’ve logged them in YT under “UI Consistency”. If you come across others not listed, let me know in a reply in this thread, thanks!

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you mean, commands like BlendSrf that do neither complete with space nor enter and only with right click? if so i made a list years ago, i can not find it anymore, but that would be really great.

just followed that link, yes please please please. @dan promised to look at that 10 years ago. i guess he was just too busy

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Don’t get too enthusiastic though yet, it is not as simple as it might look. It could even be that with the current way the dialogs are implemented it isn’t possible to make this work. Lots of the dialogs are still written in so called .xib files and stem from the early Rhino for Mac days.
But I think it is good to collect and log everything under one tag so that we see the scope of it and eventually track the fixes.

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Hi Gijs,

When I was in class a couple of weeks ago and had to use my Mac for something, I noticed that when you click on a Gumball handle, if a value is already present in the box from a previous move, on Windows a right-click would repeat the move. On the Mac, it wouldn’t do that, one had to hit the Enter key. Bit I don’t know if it’s just some setting somewhere that I missed.

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i love commands, that allow the layer to be changed while active.

possilbe:

  • blendCrv
  • filletSrf

possible to change but no effect:

  • filletEdge without trim/Join

layerchanges not possible while dialogue is open

  • loft (beeps)
  • sweep1
  • rebuild
  • text

bad color - preview not showing layer

  • tweenCurves

…

i hate that entering stuff in properties and pressing enter does not give the focus back to the commandline.
Select an object, name it / type “myCrv” press enter - fokus stays in that field.
Renaming a layer does.
There are more inconsistencies regarding Mouse Fokus. (some got solved already)

i ll report stuff when i recognise them will working… best - tom

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Good one, thanks!
RH-87361 Gumball: RMB doesn’t work

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thanks, added as RH-87362 TweenCurves: no layer color during preview

RH-85156 Loft: no access to LayerPanel
RH-87364 Sweep1/2: change layer during command
RH-87363 Rebuild: cannot change target layer when dialog is open

As for text, you can still change the layer after closing the dialog, before committing it to the document, so that seems less of an issue than the other commands (Same on Windows btw)

RH-87365 FilletEdge: output layer is not current when not joining the result

RH-87366 change object properties: Enter doesn’t bring back to commandline

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thanks for your effort - hopefully there will be some resonance…
:heart: