Post by thyme on Feb 10, 2005 8:04:59 GMT
Hi Seamless friends ;D
This is the first version to have a tool bar
This version should address the main complaint made by those new to seamless and whom I sympathize with, there being so many short cut keys to learn just to get started. I like using the new tool bar, it seems fun and practical to use but I still say nothing beats the speed of short cut keys for getting serious work done once you have learnt them. I stress this is not a dumbed down pretty version of seamless, 2.073's capabilities have not been compromised in any way by having this tool bar added apart from the download file being an extra 29 KB in size (making it now 689 KB, still a tiny program). The buttons only offer a different way of accessing the exact same functions found in the previous version and all commands from 2.072 are still available via the menu and short cuts keys same as before. The icons for the buttons should make a lot of the commands more obvious and the popup tool tip feature which never dies on you unless you move your mouse away from the button should be of great help too. For those who resent the tool bar taking up valuable monitor real estate there is the option of disabling the toolbar by going to Settings and un checking the showToolBar field.
Another reason for adding a toolbar is because not all keyboards in all countries share the same keys so this tool bar should make seamless more universal.
Yet one more thing I like much about buttons when comparing them to menus is, Icons are a much more compact way of conveying information to the user in a tutorial.
In 2.073 the position and size is remembered in the seamless3dSetup.wrl file for the scene tree, node window, 3d window and the tool bar.
Download from:
www.seamless3d.com/download/
best regards ;D
This is the first version to have a tool bar
This version should address the main complaint made by those new to seamless and whom I sympathize with, there being so many short cut keys to learn just to get started. I like using the new tool bar, it seems fun and practical to use but I still say nothing beats the speed of short cut keys for getting serious work done once you have learnt them. I stress this is not a dumbed down pretty version of seamless, 2.073's capabilities have not been compromised in any way by having this tool bar added apart from the download file being an extra 29 KB in size (making it now 689 KB, still a tiny program). The buttons only offer a different way of accessing the exact same functions found in the previous version and all commands from 2.072 are still available via the menu and short cuts keys same as before. The icons for the buttons should make a lot of the commands more obvious and the popup tool tip feature which never dies on you unless you move your mouse away from the button should be of great help too. For those who resent the tool bar taking up valuable monitor real estate there is the option of disabling the toolbar by going to Settings and un checking the showToolBar field.Another reason for adding a toolbar is because not all keyboards in all countries share the same keys so this tool bar should make seamless more universal.
Yet one more thing I like much about buttons when comparing them to menus is, Icons are a much more compact way of conveying information to the user in a tutorial.
In 2.073 the position and size is remembered in the seamless3dSetup.wrl file for the scene tree, node window, 3d window and the tool bar.
Download from:
www.seamless3d.com/download/
best regards ;D
