Hi,
I love using Seamly2d but this latest release has become a bit of a bother. The default pen width is now 1.2mm and no amount of changing settings or messing around can change this.
Similarly, if you do try and change the settings in the Application Settings you can’t do so until you enter a valid email address. Why? I don’t want to add my email address thank you.
There also seems to be an issue with the focus randomly zooming out, especially if you are doing close work moving spline points or hiding point names.
The thing that bothers me is because you only seem to have one main release a year I am stuck. Any chance of some bug fix interim releases?
More info on the zooming out. If you click on something and miss it zooms out to the full extent which given I am spending a lot of time now clicking on lines so that I can adjust them from the default 1.2mm to the 0.35mm that all my imported files are defaulting to.
I put a null email for the email thing. It was an oversight. The 20240205 release has the issue fixed.
It sounds like when you miss your target you click again almost immediately. Effectively double-clicking. Double-clicking zooms to fit. It does get annoying at times, but I haven’t thought of a solution that I’d like to present, can you?
Oooh, is that what does it? It’s been happening to me, too, and it is very annoying. @Douglas, is there some way that we can de-activate this double-click zoom feature?
rummages through Application Preferences
There it is!
Application Preferences (in the File menu)
Graphics category (at the bottom of the list)
Behavior tab (again at the bottom of the list)
Zoom section (middle section)
Zoom to selected with double click
As for myself, the annoyance from accidentally double-clicking is less than the distress of trying to remember where I left the zoom buttons last. It helps a lot just to know that it’s a double-clicking feature.
Also… at least on Windows - the mouse double click is a function of your system settings for the delay setting between double clicks. If you have the setting set too long, any 2 successive clicks will trigger a doucle click event. Shorthen the time, and that won’t happen.
This has not been an issue for me… as my delay is set pretty short.
Ooohhh… Thank you. You’re the light of my life! I’ve de-activated the double-click zoom option now. I work with one finger on the Ctrl & the other hand on the mouse wheel, so I zoom in & out all the time. Much easier for me
Yes. Double clicking doesn’t zoom to fit any application anywhere ever so remove that or allow for gestures and shortcuts to be specified as a user option. Young people have no differentiation between a single and double click.
It would be really useful if the roller ball worked as a proper zoom. Mine sort of works sometimes. Works perfectly on other apps.
Default values for lines do not seem to work. It doesn’t matter what I set them to, I still get lines that are 1.2mm which is a bit of a pain as all my existing designs use 0.35mm meaning every line now has to be adjusted manually.
Also - regarding the roller ball. Yes, zoom works brilliantly, but the scroll vertically is glitchy. It sort of works.
I am sorry you are having to repeat yourself, maybe that is an issue needing some attention in itself? This is a truly great product and I am really appreciative.
Let’s take a step back… there are 3 modes to Seamly2D… Draft, Piece, and Layout.
The lines you see in Draft mode have nothing to do with the lines in Piece and Layout.
In Draft mode (only) you can set the default Pen in the Pen Toolbar. Any new tool you add will default to the Pen in the Pen Toobar.
If your Pen Toolbar is not visible… right mouse click anywhere on an empty space on the toolbar to open the Toolbar Context menu and check the Pen Toolbar.
You can change the Pen attributes in the Pen Toolbar, and “save” that pen setting by clicking the (disc) save button. The app starts with the last saved Pen. You can also click the restore button and it will restore the last saved Pen.
Try changing the Scrollbar settings in the Preferences->Graphics->Navigation and see if that helps. Too long a update interval can make it glitchy. Too fast a speed will be hard to control. I rarely scroll as I toggle the CTRL off for zoom, and I can control the view position just by the mouse pos and zooming. Scrolling is a waste of time as you can only scroll the amount the scrollbars let you. Much quicker to zoom out, move the mouse, zoom in. Only scroll issue is when moving a pattern piece in Piece mode… that can jump too quick when a piece gets near the view edge. I’m not quite sure what the original dev had in mind… and it’s somethinng that still might need to be sorted out.
Aha… ironically I’m currently working on the pattern piece tool, and I came across the reason for the jumpy pattern piece moving. It has nothing to do with the scrollbars per se. Should be able to solve this in short order.
Zoom to selected with double click
