Schoolboy Circle Question
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@fde101 One important aspect: it can be configured away, by changing the "Contextual Menu With Click" modifier key in preferences.
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@b77 said in Schoolboy Circle Question:
@Igull You need to press the Ctrl key after you click to start the ellipse.
Ahhhh, there we have the answer
That's about the only issue I have with VS - having to press a modifier key after clicking, I can't seem to get my head around that after 30-odd years of not doing that I really do wish that was a preference LOL Thanks
Neil
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that just sounds too messy, especially when you don't know the size, or are actually using the circle to measure something - good to know though, thanks !
Neil
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@fde101 said in Schoolboy Circle Question:
Control+Click for the context menu is a Mac convention from the days when Macs only included single-button mice.
LOL, as someone who used to condone single button mice (mouses
) way back in the days of the Apple Lisa, I have long since changed my opinion and today currently use a Logitech wireless mouse with n-million buttons, bells and whistles - a wonderful input device Neil
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@Igull said in Schoolboy Circle Question:
That's about the only issue I have with VS - having to press a modifier key after clicking, I can't seem to get my head around that after 30-odd years of not doing that
I really do wish that was a preference LOL As @VectorStyler pointed out above, you can configure this: if you go into Preferences -> Modifier Keys, there is an option for "Contextual Menu with Click". This is Control by default; set it to "None" to disable the use of the modifier key for opening the context menu, which enables you to use the control key before clicking. I have found that you do need to quit and reopen VectorStyler for that particular preference to take effect (not sure if that is intentional or a bug? Either way it does work after you quit and restart the app).
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thanks for the info
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@VectorStyler Maybe that's why Option is used for this in AI instead of Ctrl, to avoid the unneeded contextual menu?
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@b77 said in Schoolboy Circle Question:
@VectorStyler Maybe that's why Option is used for this in AI instead of Ctrl, to avoid the unneeded contextual menu?
Could be. The problem is that modifier key assignments are a bit crowded right now, and unless something is dropped it is hard to rearrange.
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@VectorStyler said in Schoolboy Circle Question:
@fde101 One important aspect: it can be configured away, by changing the "Contextual Menu With Click" modifier key in preferences.
Unfortunately trackpad users are stuck with no access to a context menu with this setting.
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@b77 said in Schoolboy Circle Question:
Unfortunately trackpad users are stuck with no access to a context menu with this setting
This is why the before / after mouse press differentiation of modifiers allows for covering more use cases.
