Alan Cooper Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 In the layout video by Matthew Holewinkski, 13minutes 40 seconds into the video, he demonstates clicking on a frame border to post access the frame parameters. The only time I can access the frame parameters is at the time the frame is first created. I do not get the yellow border which he shows but there are times I would like to be able to get to the frame parameters to make changes later rather than at the creation stage of the layout frame. Windows 7. FormZ 8.02 pro. build 9413 I am only starting to experiment with Layout but have not had success with dimensions being associative after a change to the model, the simplest of model examples. AlanFormZ8.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Hi Alan, You need to Right Click the Frame and choose Parameters from the Context Menu to adjust them. There can be an issue with the automatic updating of Dimensions after the model is modified. This will be fixed with the next update (coming soon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 22, 2015 Author Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hi Tech, Thank you, I realise this should be simple, and I think I already understand what I should be able to do, as you have explained, but I had already tried persistently to make that happen, but it does not work for me. I right click the frame and nothing happens. The yellow frame as in the webinar, I don't even get that a yellow frame on my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi Alan, Did you disable or reprogram the right click to do something other than the Context Menu? (If you right click in the Layers Palette, do you get a Context Menu there?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi Tech, No problem accessing the context menu for layers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi Alan, The color of the frames is the same as that for the Control Editor 1, which you have set as dark green, and which we edited to light green here: When you open your file, you need to zoom out so you can see these frame borders, then right click on them and choose Properties: Does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Sorry Tech, but no, something is definitely broken at this end. Screen shot attached. When I hover over a frame, it turns pale red, and if I right click on it it turns darker red. No green at all and certainly no context menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Hi Alan, If you go to the Edit Menu: Key Shortcuts, and save your shortcuts to a file, then Load Defaults, does that work any better? If not, if you Quit formZ, go to C: Users: User: App Data: Roaming -- and rename the autodessys folder, does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Thanks Tech, default shortcuts has solved the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Alan, Ok, try this. Quit formZ, go to C:\users\[uSER]\AppData\Roaming\ Then rename the autodessys folder (just add a number to the end of the name). (Note that [uSER] is the name with which you log onto your computer, and if you don't see the App Data folder, you can show this by going to the Windows Explorer: Tools Menu: Folder Options: View Tab -- and choosing Show Hidden Files, and clicking OK.) Then relaunch formZ and try it once more. Does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibui Design Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Would it make sense to activate "Parameters" and "Show Controls" in the Options consistent with the way these controls are available in the modeling environment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Alan, Ok, try this. Quit formZ, go to C:\users\[uSER]\AppData\Roaming\ Then rename the autodessys folder (just add a number to the end of the name). (Note that [uSER] is the name with which you log onto your computer, and if you don't see the App Data folder, you can show this by going to the Windows Explorer: Tools Menu: Folder Options: View Tab -- and choosing Show Hidden Files, and clicking OK.) Then relaunch formZ and try it once more. Does that help? Hi Tech, Ok, I also tried this and it also works. And when I reload my previous shortcuts file, it again removes ability to access the local menu for the frame, so confirmation it was the shortcut file causing the problem. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Alan, Whoops, that's strange, I could have sworn that your previous post said it did NOT solve the problem. Perhaps I was reading too fast before my first cup of coffee! Can you send your shortcut file so we can test with this here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 No problem Tech. Shortcut file attached. formZ Short Cuts.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Alan, Thanks for sending your key shortcut file. It appears that most of the default key shortcuts have been removed, including the Context Menu command (single right click): You can just re-add this shortcut (single left click), but with so many of the default shortcuts missing, you will likely run into other missing shortcuts in the future. You can either deal with these as they come, or you can use the Default Shortcuts -- and then re-add your custom shortcuts to these. It will be a bit more work, but to prevent similar issues to this in the future, it will likely be worth it. I also learned something -- above I asked if right clicking in Palettes brought up the context menu. I assumed that this meant that you did not remove this key shortcut -- but I was wrong about that. That feature works independently of whether or not this key shortcut is enabled, so at least I can avoid that mistake in the future and have them check for a context menu when right clicking on an object in the project window instead.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Thanks Tech. I had removed default shortcuts thinking that if I mis-key or one of our puppies [had 5 but kept 1] walks on my keyboard I didn't want some mystery action to result. There are just a few shortcuts which I would rather were not there as they could perhaps be 'dangerous', but rather than trawl through, and not understanding what some of them actually did, thought it was easier to clear and add the ones I thought I might actually use. Looks like I both missed some and added a few I have never used. I don't get on with default shortcuts and prefer simple ones for regularly used actions and though not easy, have done my best to appoint them in a logical manner, but it's time soon for me to appraise them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 By the way, I was just about to say "the edit menu shortcuts are too hard to find individual entries because there are so many categories. There needs to be a view where each entry is listed alphabetically regardless of category, with the category name following it where there are repeats." But this facility is already there by clicking on the 'command' heading. Bravo, wish I had noticed earlier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Hi Alan, Yes, perhaps to clarify a little -- when you go to the Edit Menu: Key Shortcuts and click LIST, you can then list the key shortcuts by Category, Key, or Command... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.