Re: nextGeomview

[slevy]

Note -- the best place to mail notes about geomview is "software" rather than
"techstaff".

> I've noticed a small quirks in gv on the NeXT.
> 
> 1)  Begin gv and type "<" to bring up the load panel--doesn't work.
> Even if I make  camera window current, won't work  But make the
> geomview panel the active panel and it does.
>  However the symbol < appears in my shell window. Note: I have aliased
>  gv to be "gv &"...

I didn't understand this and asked Dennis -- effectively clicking on the
window *border* isn't enough to make geomview accept keyboard input, but
clicking inside the window (in the View itself) is.

> 2)  A highlighting problem:  Load an object --it will be called g1 and
> the target object is g0.  Next type "g1" in the keyboard to select g1.
> Nothing changes in the geomview panel--go is still highlighted.  but
> now type "t" and the motion mode changes to Translate as shown by
> change in highlighting AND the change in target object registered by
> highlighting of g1.

Note that typing something like "g1" alone doesn't select g1; it's
just a prefix for another command.  (Note that if both "g1" and "g10"
existed, geomview would have to guess whether more were coming.)

A complete keyboard command is something like "g1t" or "g1dd",
each of which selects the object, then operates on it.  The "p" command
is a way to simply select an object, as in "g1p".

> I believe that the selection is in fact being done correctly.  I can
> use the keys to select a geom and delete it with "dd" and, even though
> it is not highlighted in the panel, it is deleted (after a brief
> highlighting).
> 
> Dennis