The text object dialog changed in v6 and is now more cumbersome. When creating text objects often the user needs to scroll through fonts and wants to see their text in various fonts. The ideal way to do this that worked well in V5 is to type your text and then arrow through the fonts to see the resu…

Hello - yep, I know… this one is on the bug pile - https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-34845 -Pascal

I figuered out that by clicking several times (4x) opening and closing the drop down menu, the selection focus stays there and I can use the arrow keys! at least in the latest Windows version…

R5 to R6 has no scroll through ability or is there a way that you can scroll through the different text?

Hi Oliver - In Rhino 6 you can use the ↑ and ↓ arrows on the keyboard to scroll through the font list. Issue item RH-34845 - to make this possible with the mouse wheel - is still open and on the Rhino 7 list. -wim

@wim - I moaned about this again yesterday because if it works in Properties for Text it does not in the dialog for TextObject, which is at least as painful… https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-44057 -Pascal

Scrolling Text Object Fonts in v6 is pain compared to v5

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Scrolling Text Object Fonts in v6 is pain compared to v5

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