Switched "Close" and "HELP" button positions..?

Hey all,

Am I the only one who noticed that SW reversed the position of the "Close"
and "Help" buttons in the 'What's Wrong' dialogue box during failed
extrusions/fillets/sweeps?

I just installed '06 last weekend, and I'm finding it incredibly annoying
that some programmer took the time to make a change that is adversely
affecting productivity. Been a user since 1997, and NOW someone switched
these positions?

I guess this tiny annoyance fits in with the common theme here that SW
doesn't pay much attention to users or it's interface. There was a time
when I RAVED about SW, and certainly helped them sell a few copies. No
more.

Best Regards,
C

 

No, you're not the only one who noticed that. I kept wondering why the
Help dialog kept popping up when I closed out of errors. At first I
chalked it up to user clumsiness, but after a while realized it wasn't
my clumsiness. Someone else I was talking to has complained about it as
well. Anyone using SP1 see if that has been fixed?

 

I'm starting to think that there is some kind of conspiracy wherein a rival
economy has
bribed the swx programmers to insert numerous "enhancements" and "features"
into each
release which, as we know, mostly impede productivity.
Meanwhile, an underground version, available to this rival economy, has the
speed, stability, and UI that greatly
resembles swx2001.

just a thought
bill

 

LOL Bill! I shot off a scathing email to SW, hinting at the same. I told
them that I'd like to find the moron who made that switch, and switch the
brake and clutch pedals in his car. Or just randomnly rearrange 5 keys in
his keyboard.

C

 

That's funny.....

Remind's that several years ago on Mechanical Desktop V3 I think, there
was a dialogue where if you selected the "?" icon on the dialogue
header, and selected the "Help" button at the button of the dialgue, it
gave you a message something like "This is the help button you idiot".

 

One of my favorites is how they program the same mnemonic character for
multiple selections in the same menu. In SW2003, RMB then d was
dimension. In SW2004, Smart Dimension and More Dimensions both have the
m underlined. So of course <sarcastic> the command lowest on the list
is the one with the highest priority (i.e. the one that the m responds
to). So there is no way to keyboard access one of the most commonly
used commands (Smart Dimension) from a RMB menu. Also, I believe that
the Insert menu had 3 with the letter b at one point in time.

Then they assign a different mnemonic character for the same command
depending on which menu the command appears on (Main Menu, RMB Graphics
Area, or RMB Feature Tree). Component properties was the one that
really annoyed me in SW2003, it wasn't the same anywhere. Then of
course, each of these characters changes between major releases.

My most favorite of these is how the mnemonic character when RMB'ing a
component part (SW2003 or SW2004, I forget which) when I want to open
it...and the character changes depending on the filename...so there is
no standard character so good luck reading that paragraph of a menu
(every time) instead using the keyboard to quickly select the item you
want.

Why do I look for and use the mnemonics...comes from using computers
before the mouse was invented. I guess old habits are hard to
forget...BUT it is MUCH faster than mousing once you have the
keystrokes memorized.

Anyway, I have stopped looking at SW's mnemonics and have everything
programmed in my keyboard or use a macro to call them. This way I am in
complete control no matter what they choose to dictate I should be
using...at least until they take that functionality away

That's my rant for the day :^),
Ken

 

It was nice to get that email Carl. Really brightened my day.

 

Hello Drew,

If you were, in fact, the recipient of my frustration, what was the last
comment in the email? If you had it, you'll see that my frustration was
directed towards the programmer AND someone else.

How did this thing get released ? No internal users noticed something
different about that dialog? When you've been using SW as long as I have,
the positions of those buttons is more than automatic. After hitting the
correct position (and incorrect button) 6 times in a row, I was ready to
strangle someone.

Again, if you were the brunt of my frustration, I apologize. But the fact
stands that this little change was a huge mistake to release.

Regards,
Carl