When you launch the program it would be nice if it opened the last project you were working on instead of the generic startup file.
When you copy and paste a shape it also copies the shape's name. But then you can't pick the one of those shapes by name from the drop down list because it always selects the first one it finds. What would be nice is when you copy and paste a shape it should append a number to the name. For example, if I copy and paste a shape named "Right Leg" the pasted shape should get the name "Right Leg [2]", and if I paste the same shape again it should be named "Right Leg [3]". That way every shape gets a unique name, and it becomes possible to pick a shape by name from the list.
--gary
Two items for the wish list
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The "named shape paste" bug is something I find annoying as well.
Sort of simple fix but tedious... just select the first one and rename it. Keep going until all the "duplicates" have unique names. Just today I had a vector layer with 10 shapes all named "2".
I've been thinking of trying to script a solution for that. I had to "re-do" ALL the tools for my group bones script so I might be able to fix that.
It all depends on how the pasting takes place. If it's part of the application then not much luck. If it's done in the tool script then there's a good chance to change it. I already modified my set of tools so the layer names are always different (only within a group type layer of course).
-vern
Sort of simple fix but tedious... just select the first one and rename it. Keep going until all the "duplicates" have unique names. Just today I had a vector layer with 10 shapes all named "2".
I've been thinking of trying to script a solution for that. I had to "re-do" ALL the tools for my group bones script so I might be able to fix that.
It all depends on how the pasting takes place. If it's part of the application then not much luck. If it's done in the tool script then there's a good chance to change it. I already modified my set of tools so the layer names are always different (only within a group type layer of course).
-vern
Hey Vern,
That's what I figured out for how to work around it. I ran into it in my newest newbie tutorial http://fiziwig.com/anim/index04.html when I created one eye with movable eyelids, eyeballs, and eyebrows and then copied all the parts to make a matched pair of eyes. I just stuck a hyphen in front of the first occurrence of the duplicated names then changed the "right" in each duplicated name to "left". Tedious, but it works.
--gary
That's what I figured out for how to work around it. I ran into it in my newest newbie tutorial http://fiziwig.com/anim/index04.html when I created one eye with movable eyelids, eyeballs, and eyebrows and then copied all the parts to make a matched pair of eyes. I just stuck a hyphen in front of the first occurrence of the duplicated names then changed the "right" in each duplicated name to "left". Tedious, but it works.
--gary