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Ground Polygon Tool - Preserving Input

treeman

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Two small notes about the ground polygon tool, one is a bug the other is a request.

First, the bug. When opening up a settings file for the GP wizard (.mgp) the Options usually default to:

[X] Slice polygons
[] Group polygons
[X] Optimize reference point location
[X] Prevent autogen exclusion
[] DX10 compatible

These options are usually loaded even if others are set.

Now for the request, after the wizard runs and exports the GP, the input boxes and all other set information is cleared. So if the GP is going to be exported again the user has to select the file to convert, load the GP settings, re-tick the desired options, and export again. I personally often export a ground polygon multiple times in a short timespan while doing small tweaks so leaving the input boxes filled would save a good deal of time.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate all of the hard work that goes into MCX. It sure does make my work all the easier.
 
Hi,

Let me check. It sounds like I might have added some extra options to the form, but forgot to add them to the loading/saving of the settings.

About clearing the form. At the moment I do that intentionally, so that you can clearly see when the converting has finished. So I think at least the filename should be cleared (also to force the user to reload the input). But I will check if the other fields can stay the same.
 
Thanks for checking out the settings loading!

I suspected the form clearing was to show that the process had finished. How about using a popup window to show completion? Either that or like you said, clearing the output field to show the process has finished.

Thanks again
 
I hate popup windows, so that's why I went for this approach :)

But I'll check if I can only clear the filename.
 
Hi Arno,

I saw the settings in the MGP are now preserved upon reloading, thanks for checking and fixing that.

Regards
 
Hi,

Yes, I had a look at this bug this week and fixed it.
 
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