ArtPearl opened this issue on Feb 08, 2009 · 7 posts
ArtPearl posted Sun, 08 February 2009 at 9:12 PM
I start a new scene and add a vue cylinder primitive, move it up and tilted. Then I hit the 'drop' icon on the left bar. I tried it in v6inf as well as v7comp for comparison.
In V6 it moves down along the z axis keeping the tilt. In V7c it doesnt drop straight down, it rotates and falls on its side. See attached image for a screen capture before and after the drop in v6 & v7.
This looks like instead of doing a regular drop (click on icon on left bar) it executes a smart drop ( ctrl/click on a mac or right click on PC). I am sure I didnt chose smart click by accident as this would require holding down an extra key.
There seems to be some element of randomness in this erroneous v7 behaviour - if after the drop I do an 'undo' and drop again repeatedly, most times it will do it wrongly but once in a while it drops properly without falling on its side.
It occurred to me that it is confusing a left and a right click. In fact I had occurrences that this confusion happened on the load/write object as well. If I want to load a new object but I have already some object selected and I click on the object icon (left bar) it asks me where I want to WRITE the object. If I deselect all objects and left click on the icon it works correctly and I can load a new object.
This also works right or wrong in a somewhat random matter. I dont have a screen shot at the moment but I thought the two errors might be related
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