[ptx] Hugin 0.5 beta 7 released

[douglas wilkins]

--- Philippe Gac <tech at ediphi.org> wrote:
> 
> > > btw it would be nice to have a way to force selection of an
> existent
> > > point (instead of creating a new one). Or, maybe, a
> > > change of cursor shape when selecting.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you are asking for here. Could you perhaps
> explain
> > how you want to use this?
> 
> It's often difficult to know whether your clicking on a circle will
> select the points associated or will begin creating
> a new pair. Most of the time, the zoom is fitted to window so that
> you expect to select  a pair but in fact select
> nothing and create some anew. If you want to  zoom, you have to use
> the zoom list box; it would be nice and practical to
> have select-with-zooming as you have creating-with-zooming. Thus, I
> imagine that something like a shift-click could help
> force selection while ctrl-click could force creation.

OK this makes sense. Not for 0.5 but I'll keep it in mind for the next
version - even better - if you could add it to the RFE page at
sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=77506&atid=550444
so that it doesn't get lost that would be great

> 
> In any case, a change in cursor shape when selecting (as opposed to
> creating) would be very useful.
> 
> btw (but that's luxury!) a double-click could trigger (again) the
> search for a corresponding point after a selected
> point has been moved.

Hmmm, a little trickier but perhaps possible.....

regards,
Doug

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