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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
I just made the Beta 10 available to fix the problems reported by robal in folder dialog. I also added a message displayed once the photos creation is finished.
Currently, the settings for date/time for outdoor light are not available in "create photos at points of view" dialog. Even if you change date/time in "create photo" dialog, the "create photos at points of view" will use settings stored at the time points of view were created.
The date/time is stored of each point of view to let the user choose different date/time. Changing this date/time won't influence the Create photos at points of view dialog.
I think it would be better and more intuitive if date/time for outdoor light settings were added to "create photos at points of view" dialog, instead of silently storing this information on points of view
I don't agree because each point of view can have a different date/time. Having an other date/time setting in the dialog + a check box to override the setting at each point of view could be nice, but I feel many users wouldn't understand it.
The 3D view turns all grey after: - switching to SW3D window (after it was in background or minimised) - resizing SW3D window - hovering over menus
It's an old issue that appeared with Java 7. It's the main reason why I still bundle the installer version with Java 6.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
Hello,
Some days later, and some bugs fixed... I've the pleasure to say: under Linux Ubuntu 12, all works perfect ! Thanks for this important evolution.
Only 2 remarks (one for the n00b such as me and one for everybody for the security):
delete the installed version before installing the new version (and the shortcut), (for sample I've 2 shortcuts on my desktop... SH3D v3.8 beta and SH3D v4.0 beta...),
update the local version of Java, now it's 1.7_10, best is using 1.7_11 (this is not critical because we use the an local version and not an installed version, but interressant for the global security of the appz) ;
Sorry for my very poor contribution at this topics, but... No time for the moment
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
Here's the DMG installer for version 4.0 Beta 10. Note that this version works differently from previous one, since under Mac OS X 10.7 / 10.8, it tries to run with Java 6 if it's installed in the system. Otherwise it runs with the JRE 1.7.0_11 bundled with the DMG and it doesn't try to download Java 6 anymore (an issue I didn't expect in previous version, but I fixed it). It works correctly under Mac OS X 10.6 but there's a launch problem under Mac OS X 10.5 and I hope to find a solution for the final version.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
Thanks a lot for the DMG, Emmanuel!
- "create photos at points of view" works just fine now. - toggling magnetism with cmd key works also fine.
- shift key behavior is pretty much like in photoshop or word, although the "grid" in SH3D seems to be much smaller than in PS or word. Could you define a larger grid?
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Thanks for your tests. Shift shortcut acts only on the angle of the move direction. There's no grid magnetism in Sweet Home 3D.
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
The beta 11 brings the new Check updates at program launch option in the preferences pane along with a Check update button to get information about program and SH3F/SH3T/SH3L/SH3P files updates.
To let you try it with the current Beta, I published some information about a fake version 4.0 Beta 30 that will show the following dialog at program launch.
The updates dialog displays also a Do not display these updates again option shown only at program launch, that avoids you to get the shown updates again at next launch. If you select the check box, the updates dialog will appear again only when newer updates are available.
Of course, in the real world, this new option will have some effect only when version 4.1 will be released, but also for the next beta versions.
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Sometimes I am unable to drag and drop furniture. 1 times of 2, when I start the program, I can't drag and drop furniture. I start the program from the console with the command
javaws SweetHome3D.4.0.beta.jnlp
. I click on a furniture, but when I drag it I get error messages in the consol.
System: SH3D Version 4.0 Beta 11 on Kubuntu 12.10 (Ubuntu with KDE) Java version 1.6.0_24
The error text begins:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.FurnitureCatalogTransferHandler.createTransferable(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.TransferHandler$DragHandler.dragGestureRecognized(TransferHandler.java:1552) at java.awt.dnd.DragGestureRecognizer.fireDragGestureRecognized(DragGestureRecognizer.java:356) at javax.swing.TransferHandler$SwingDragGestureRecognizer.gestured(TransferHandler.java:1615) at javax.swing.TransferHandler.exportAsDrag(TransferHandler.java:690) at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.VisualTransferHandler.exportAsDrag(Unknown Source) at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.FurnitureCatalogTree$1.mouseDragged(Unknown Source) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseDragged(AWTEventMulticaster.java:320) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseDragged(AWTEventMulticaster.java:319) ....
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Re: Error messages when I drag and drop furniture.
Hakan,
Recently I also had a problem with the newest version of SH3D. It turns out the problem was with the Java version (IceTea) I had installed on my computer.
This is how I solved it under Ubunru 12.04 with the Gnome Classic interface: 1 - uninstall IceTea Java through the software centre. 2 - using the terminal, install Java 7 using some help pages from the internet (like this one ) 3 - now download and install SH3D 4 - you can now start SH3D as follows: Application --> Java Web Start --> SH3D
Works like a charm for me.
Hans
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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.0
Here's the Beta 12 with the following features: - Existing Inch unit was renamed as Foot/Inch/Fraction, then modified to always display the closest eighth inch fraction for lengths shown in the furniture table and in the plan, and to remove decimals for areas expressed in square foot. - The Inch/Decimals unit was added to preferences Unit choice, and displays decimals of an inch for lengths shown in the furniture table and in the plan, and for areas expressed in square foot. - The shortcut of the 3D view > Display in separate window / Display in main window menu item was set to ctrl + alt + Y (cmd + alt Y under Mac OS X) and program shortcuts were enabled in the separated 3D view. - Line thickness was reduced in prints and PDF files (this feature was already programmed in previous Beta but I forgot to mention it).
As the following screen capture shows, Unit radio boxes were replaced by a combo box proposing the 5 available units.
If there are some users of the Imperial system (i.e. foot/inch) reading this message, I'll be pleased to know their opinion about the unit change. It was a request of some users and I tried to program a logical solution that could be easy to understand. But as a Metric system guy, I could have missed something...
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