Arrow keyboard control of the drawing
To give easier control over moving around the drawing, you can now use the arrow keys to pan around. This makes navigating the drawing while on a laptop much easier. You can also hold down Shift while using the arrow keys to pan even faster.
When a gear item is selected, the arrow keys will instead be used to move the gear item around the drawing (in increments based on your grid size). The Shift shortcut for faster movement applies to moving gear items as well.
Hitting Esc will now deselect your current gear, making it easier to jump back into panning the drawing around using your arrow keys.
When a gear item is selected, the arrow keys will instead be used to move the gear item around the drawing (in increments based on your grid size). The Shift shortcut for faster movement applies to moving gear items as well.
Hitting Esc will now deselect your current gear, making it easier to jump back into panning the drawing around using your arrow keys.
Gear Groups and text boxes support new colour updates
We have extended the same colour updates we made to gear and connections in our previous release to other drawing items. The label of Gear Groups will now be set to either black or white depending on your app theme (Light or Dark mode) for improved readability. The Secondary Colour will be used to set the border of the group, like with gear.
Similarly, for text boxes, the Secondary Colour will affect the border as well, but the text colour is set depending on three main factors:
Similarly, for text boxes, the Secondary Colour will affect the border as well, but the text colour is set depending on three main factors:
- If the text box is set to an opacity over 60% (the default is 85%) then the label colour will be set based on the background colour of the text box
- When under 60% opacity, it will base the colour on your app theme, same as Gear Groups
- If you have manually set your own text colour from the text box toolbar, that colour will be used instead of the above two options
Improvements
- Selecting gear in My Gear will now center the drawing on that gear item, making it easier to find the gear you are looking for
- Keyboard shortcuts are now displayed in right click and menu items for easier reference
- Updated some large dialog windows like the Version History and Gear Ports dialogs to open from the top or side, to make them faster to access
- Updated the layout of the Keyboard Shortcut dialog slightly
Bug Fixes
- Fixed being able to open Version History several times; only one window can now be opened at a time