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The ability to move or switch items in the connector pane

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- UI & Usability
Status: In Beta

06-01-2009 02:16 PM

A great time saver would be if we could drag or click to switch connections directly in the connector pane instead of having to disconnect and reconnect controls.

This can be a simple two click process:

Switch Connections.png

If there's already another control\indicator where you click, they get switched.

Status: In Beta

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Kudos!

Thanks!

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06-03-2009 06:16 AM

That is an excellent suggestion.

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06-03-2009 03:56 PM

In addition, we should also have the following shortcut:

<Shift>-clicking a used connector should disconnect it

(faster than right-click...drag down...overshoot...drag up...select "disconnect this terminal"...release mouse...).

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06-08-2009 04:36 PM

for(imstuck)

One more thing I've noticed. If there is a reason this cannot be done, or in a version later than 8.5.1 it can be done let me know. But it would be nice to be able to select the control then the connector pane. Sometimes I will have the control selected, but have to choose the connector then re-select the control. Again if there is a way around this then disregard this comment

Message Edited by for(imstuck) on 06-08-2009 04:38 PM

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06-09-2009 02:18 AM

it would be nice to be able to select the control then the connector pane

You can do this if you explicitly set your tool to the wiring tool, but I never bothered. I agree it's annoying, though.

Since most controls probably don't have a third common action, it would probably be useful if Ctrl could change to the wiring tool, but since I don't use that feature (Shift and Ctrl to get secondary operation) either, I doubt it would be worth it.

A nice compromise might be that if you have a single selected control on the FP and you click on an empty terminal in the connector pane, the control gets associated with that terminal.

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07-06-2009 10:38 AM

JackDunaway

Congratulations on the first ever 100 Kudos'd post! 06 July 2009

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07-16-2009 04:30 AM

I am sure this has reached where it was intented to. Nice one!!

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10-14-2009 11:34 AM

Wonger

This is a great idea, we will be working on this for 2010.

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10-14-2009 11:35 AM

Wonger

Status changed to: In Development

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10-14-2009 11:55 AM

Thanks.

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10-15-2009 10:47 AM

Broken Arrow

I am stoked that this is In Development. Congratulations tst.

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