In older microstation if you got an ACAD file full of single texts, you could just select them in order, CTRL C then edit the first an paste all the text into one line.
Same with selecting texts and pasting into notepad, excel etc.
Simples.
Now it pastes the texts selected in the order they are entered into the model. So the above method or functionality is lost.
Is this yet more functionality that new Bentley programmers are unaware of and just write of of existance or have aI missed a new setting about how paste work with Selections.
Is there a preference option somewhere or a undocumented variable that governs how selections are presented to other programs and the editor?
This functionality had changed as described further in this thread communities.bentley.com/.../22191.aspx
Unknown said:...problem being created by new Bentley programmers not being aware of old functionality.
Well in this case I was both aware of the old behavior and hardly a new programmer...but ok. :)
Please post a dgn so I can see a real-world test case that demonstrates where individually picking each and every piece of text is preferable to a quick drag select and getting a predictable order. I am not opposed to preserving selection set order when the order is the result of a pick (not a drag, not choose all, not a result of elements being in graphic or named groups). I am only opposed to using file position as the paste order as that is not intuitive or easily discoverable.
Unknown said:I still would like the option to use CTRL Z to undo the first pick point using MOVE/COPY and other manipulation commands. But I doubt there is any chance of that coming back.
But I doubt there is any chance of that coming back.
Yes, there is zero chance of the ctrl+z behavior coming back...but as I've told you previously I did take your complaint seriously and in the next version you will be able to using ctrl+data to identify elements (in addition to ctrl+drag which works now), and then the next data point will define the anchor. Yes, it's different...but it's better and more consistent with our standard pick logic and expectations about what ctrl+z will do.