Hi all !!!
When opening 3D text there is the: enter text that you have to select before typing. Is there way to get rid of it so you can start typing immediately.
Thanks for your help
Pace
I select the text with my mouse and start typing. Or I “select all” with my keyboard shortcut and do the same.
Unfortunately, I believe that content is populated by the SketchUp app when it opens the window. There is no way to blank the field other than as @monospaced suggested.
Hi Monospace !!!
Selecting the text is the part that i find useless and annoying. I do not know why it is there
to bigin with ???
Have a nice day !
Pace
Some users need prompts like that to know what to do after they open windows with text fields. Many websites are like that, too.
I agree it would be nice if the developers had pre-selected the “Enter text” contents so you could just start typing, as you can do in many other entry fields. I took a look at the .nib file for this dialog, and that field is blank there so the default string must be getting loaded by the app code itself. I suppose they felt they needed a place holder to make it more obvious what that field is for.
I am not an expert on coding this kind of field, so I don’t know if there is some reason it couldn’t be pre-selected after loading, but if there is they didn’t do so.
Hello Dave !!!
It could be there… but could not we start typing right away ?
Thanks for all the help !
Good day !
Pace
It would be nice but I can think of many things I’d find higher priority changes/fixes that I think the developers should work on before this.
If you need to create a lot of 3D text in your models I think there are faster ways than using the 3D Text UI anyway.