Hi all,
Inspired by a posting from Dominic (in another thread) the latest installment of PeekView tool brings (among other good things :) a brand new functionality, about which I am outmostly interested in hearing your opinions.
It is tentatively called 'Zooming Panning Rotating' (please also suggest a better name!). Select it via 'Target View' option button in PeekView.This option actually defines a state rather than responds to pressing a hotkey: whenever you are about to perform any viewing command, like ZOOM, PAN or ROTATE VIEW, and the cursor is within the view area, the View Display Style will switch automatically! This makes a whole new experience when manipulating views (and I confess, one I was missing too).
There are two states where you can change the View Display Style here via hotkeys: - If you want to change the View Display Style for non-viewing commands, make sure that your cursor is inside the target view when pressing the hotkey. - If you want to change the View Display Style only for viewing commands, make sure that your cursor is outside of the view area when you are pressing the hotkey. The chosen setting for View Display Style for viewing commands can be saved.What do you think about this invention?
Download PeekView at: http://www.ustation.se
Chris
Could PeekView be extended to ALL View Attributes?
With an on/off/ctive/passive matrix a la View Buddy.
And eventually with a save for later use on other views?
regards / Thomas Voghera
hm - downloaded the 20101109 version - I am heard before I spook!
Regarding ZPR-tool do I understand it correctly that it changes view display style while exvis rotating a view?
What excatly is the purpose? to speed up rotation of shaded views of big models?
Moore?
As long as my graphical card rotates the shaded view without delay, stutter, or hiding 80% of the graphics I prefer to see it fully. But when not ... yes that may be a very good trick.
Or do I miss the point?
Hi Chris, I found your app yesterday and was wondering if the target view: under cursor behaviour is something that can be achieved in VBA? The reason I ask is that I have set my function keys F1-F8 to use multiple command strings for setting view orientation combined with a specific display style. Unfortunately the key-in CHANGE VIEW CUSTOM <display_style_name> [view_number] restricts me due to the required view number and I want to be able to set the rotation and display style to any window without restriction. I noticed your app operates seemlessly wherever the cursor is and that's what I'm looking to achieve. I would continue to use peekview but I am unable to harness the peekview settings via keyin i.e something like entering "PeekView Settings Slot1" in the key-in browser would trigger whatever the user has set in the first peek slot and the key's to run it. If I was able to do this then I would gladly use PeekView in my workflow.
I hope that makes sense
Thanks
Hi Barry,
Sensing the View is done by a MDL function mdlSystem_getCursorPosition().
Adding the key-ins (working in lieu of hot-keys) is a great idea. I'll implement it right away :)
Cheers,
/Chris Z.
Hi Chris, that's excellent!
I look forward to the update
Cheers
Barry
Barry,
I just pushed an update for PeekView to: http://www.ustation.se
It closes both your request and another unrelated one which was lingering in this thread far too long.
Just a heads-up - another small update has been posted today.