Controlling Predictive Picking
Controlling Predictive Picking
Most of the time Predictive Picking is helpful, but there are two situations in which you might want to turn it off:
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If your computer is very slow, or you are displaying graphics over a network,
you may find that the need to keep updating the display as the cursor position
moves makes the response sluggish.
- If your image is very complex, and you are picking items which generate a lot of extra graphics when they are highlighted (typically sets, or contacts defined by set) you may find that predictive pick highlighting becomes a nuisance.
In the first situation you might want to turn it off for all picking operations; but in the second you may just want to suppress it for the duration of the current pick operation, turning it back on when you revert to picking items that are less visually complex. Therefore two levels of control are provided:
Switching on/off temporarily for this picking operation only |
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The button to the right of the "Quick Pick" selection buttons can be used to toggle predictive picking on/off for the current picking operation only. As an alternative you can use the " p " (note lower case) keyboard short-cut to have exactly the same effect. |
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This only affects the current picking operation, and the setting is "forgotten" once that operation ends. |
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Switching on/off globallyProgramme-wide predictive picking can be toggled on/off using the " " (note upper case) keyboard short cut. This is not "remembered" automatically, so a future D3PLOT session will default to the standard setting of predictive picking being globally active |
Saving changes to predictive picking settingsThe effect of the "P" shortcut is not "remembered" automatically, so a future D3PLOT session will default to the standard setting of predictive picking being globally active. If you want to set something other than the default status this can be done via the following two oa_pref file options:
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