A few interface questions

[Sierra Rose]

After a little series of surgeries, I have not been able to draw for awhile. I just downloaded the upgrade to TVP Pro and have been going through the manual to try to remember some things on which I am fuzzy. (Not from painkillers--just from forgetfulness).

I once complained that I can no longer hover my cursor over a tool and have it's name or function pop up. It seems to me you solved that for me but I can't for the life of me remember what fixed it. I did and still have inline help checked on full. Again I am missing these wonderful little reminders. How do I get the inline help to work on full, once again?

Thanks so much. PS I love the image markers.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Mouse or pen? It works only with mouse.

[Sierra Rose]

Yes, I remembered that's true. I have been trying the mouse.

[malcooning]

the tool-tips work for me as usual. Also works with a pen, just you need to lift the pen up from the board (more than an inch) once you're above a button, otherwise the pen registers the movement of the hand and the tool tip won't show up as a result.

[Paul Fierlinger]

I don't remember ever hearing that the tool tips won't show up when they are selected in the Help menu. But I never knew about lifting the pen trick either (frankly, it's still easier to reach for the mouse). Maybe reloading TVPaint would fix that.

[Sierra Rose]

I thought of reloading it but since I just upgraded to the new one, isn't it the same thing?

[Paul Fierlinger]

Sometimes there can be glitches during the download process and things get left out or mangled. TVP is very easy to reload so it's worth the try I'd say.

[Sierra Rose]

OK, I take your point. I'll give it a whirl.

[Sierra Rose]

Well, thanks to your idea, Paul, I again have the little tool notes. Reloading was the trick.

[Sierra Rose]

OK, I did get the little notes to pop up after I reloaded TVP, as Paul suggested. Now they have disappeared again. Along with that I'm still frustrated with trying to use the off-peg light table function. It works to reposition the image, but as long as I have the little o showing that the frame in question is off peg, I can't get my drawing tool back, I remain on the function that keeps moving the image around.

I wonder if I have something conflicting with TVP maybe? I am really stumped about both these things...but the off-peg is, naturally, much more important to me. I just went through the appendix that describes how to use the off-peg function thinking I must have missed something but I can't get it to work even so.

[Peter Wassink]

OK, I did get the little notes to pop up after I reloaded TVP, as Paul suggested. Now they have disappeared again. Along with that I'm still frustrated with trying to use the off-peg light table function. It works to reposition the image, but as long as I have the little o showing that the frame in question is off peg, I can't get my drawing tool back, I remain on the function that keeps moving the image around.

I wonder if I have something conflicting with TVP maybe? I am really stumped about both these things...but the off-peg is, naturally, much more important to me. I just went through the appendix that describes how to use the off-peg function thinking I must have missed something but I can't get it to work even so.

you have to select a drawing tool again to get out of "moving the off-peg image around"-mode.
its the one minor problem with the function.

once you are used to this its all wonderful

[Sierra Rose]

OK, if I select a drawing tool from the Tool menu, it does let me draw. I was using one of my custom panels to get my custom pen and it wouldn't let me out of the move function. I've never had anything work incorrectly from a custom panel before...Thanks Peter...I'm good to go.

[Peter Wassink]

OK, if I select a drawing tool from the Tool menu, it does let me draw. I was using one of my custom panels to get my custom pen and it wouldn't let me out of the move function. I've never had anything work incorrectly from a custom panel before...Thanks Peter...I'm good to go.

i have one custom tool that works directly after using off-peg but most others don't, but i haven't figured out what causes it. maybe someone else knows?

[chatbraque]

Same problem too… You can also press "enter" to fix it…
… pressing "enter" when the red frame stay activ and forbid you to select some tool, allows any of them to be available again.
("lourdingue" mon anglais )

Actually, we had a discussion about it somewhere else on this forum…
… I - kind of* - understood that the former way to get the "off-peg function" working was - more or less** - depending on the "enter" key (in a "beta-test"version*** )…
… maybe a little bugg to be found somewhere there ??




*/**/*** as you can see, only reliable informations !

[ZigOtto]

... i have one custom tool that works directly after using off-peg but most others don't, but i haven't figured out what causes it. maybe someone else knows?

this issue could be fixed imo, I think when the custom tool is made of a custumbrush, it works directly, but when derived from an air/Pen/mechanical/pencil brush... (one of the first line of the tool panel), it requires an [enter] hit action before to get the tool "inking" effectively.
to get rid of this, I've added a line Shape: Cancel (insert a command on top of the tool command) to all my custom drawing-tools which needed this trick,
exemple, my revised Blue Pencil of the Sketch Panel :

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