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ICS6.1.7-64b.78 gravity and cross cursor

RVERP

Just switched from version IC6.1.7-64b.500.4 to ICS6.1.7-64b.78. And surprise surprise, there are again some subtil differences that interfere with my workflow, so I want to disable them.

  • First, I turn on the cross cursor by default. Normally, if you draw a horizontal or vertical ruler, the cross cursor stays visible. After the update, my cross cursor disappears when drawing a ruler. Only one of the two lines of the cross stays visible (the one with the same direction as the ruler). This way, the cross cursor is pretty useless. How do you control that?
  • Second, there seems to be some permanent form of gravity, but the gravity (under gravity controls) is turned off. I can switch it of with envSetVal("layout" "gravityType" 'string ""), but I think that's a bit dirty. Is there an other way to control the gravity?

Only  those 2 thongs for now, after all, I only used it for 30 minutes :)

  • RVERP
    actually, it is envSetVal("layout" "gravityType" 'string "none")
  • RVERP
    Third, it used to be possible to use the mousewheel for cycling trough the layers in the property window. Now not anymore.
  • Andrew Beckett

    Not sure why you're going to an older release - ISR4 is newer than the .78 release (which is the base release). Why are you doing that?

    For the first item, with rulers, I don't see that, but there were some fixes in ruler display related to the priority that various layers were drawn in - it's possible that this was also fixed in a later ISR. I couldn't find a CCR for which ISR it was fixed in though (probably this is a side effect of something else that doesn't always show up in the base release).

    For the second item, this is described in this article. It's controlled via a cdsenv variable, where the default was t in the base release, and nil from ISR4 onwards. So get the base release to have the ISR4 behaviour:

    envSetVal("layout" "gravityUse5PixelApertureWhenOff" 'boolean nil)

    This was a new capability which was maybe a bit optimistically introduced - it works well in some cases, but not for all users. 

    The third item (the scroll wheel on the property editor) was fixed in IC617 ISR3 (so the one before the one you moved back from). A workaround is to click on the down arrow next to the cyclic field, and then the scroll wheel works.

    However, all of this can be solved by using the newer version, so why are you using the old version instead?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • RVERP
    I wasn't really aware that this is an older release. In our company, we have a CAD department that handles those updates, and they informed that ISR8 was up for test. Thanks for the info, I'll redirect my complaining to the correct people :)
  • Andrew Beckett

    ISR 8 isn't released yet - so maybe they've got an early access version of ISR8 (it's currently scheduled for 9th December). Anyway, the subversion you're referring to definitely isn't ISR8 in any shape or form!

    Good luck with complaining to the CAD team ;-)

    Regards,

    Andrew

  • RVERP
    Just got the info that they made a mistake (ISR8 is not released yet). Problem solved then :)

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