CompuServe Thread

Hi Doug, > Do you think if we get enough people to beat them up about the ItemMesh flags that we could get a better response than 'can't do that!'? Well, I think it's too late to get anyone to make any significant changes to the toolkit at this point. I'm just sorry I got involved with the beta so late in the game. There are several things that I would like to see changed, improved, added, etc. Unfortunately, sometimes beta programs are limited to "testing" only. There isn't always any provision made for beta testers to affect the feature set of a program. 🙁 I think the best we can do in the case of the MESH_SELECT, KXP object manipulation, etc. problems is to place them on the wishlist for IPAS4. (Assuming there is an IPAS4. <g>) On the other hand, the level of support and response time I've experienced here put many other, much larger, beta programs I've been involved with to shame. TTYL, Danny…

Doug, > Have you built a dialog similar to the 'Select Objects by Name' dialog? No. But I think we need more than just the selection dialog. I think we need to implement three things; 1) "Select Objects by Name" Dialog 2) "Select Objects by Clicking On Them" PXP function 3) "Select Objects by Drawing Marquee" PXP function The combination of these three features in a PXP would make object selection very easy. They should be designed to resemble, as closely as possible, similar features already present in 3DS so as to maintain a consistant look and feel for users. I would like to propose a joint mini development effort among the beta testers. We could easily come up with these features in a couple of days and post the code here for anyone to use freely in their projects. I volunteer to create item 2 or 3. I hope you will volunteer to create item 1 since you've already mentioned your intention of doing so. If you agree, all we need is one other person to take item 2 or 3. Do we have any other takers? Any other suggestions for other features to make object selection easier? Danny…