Try start writing out a characters mdd files within softimage and then start to type an email to someone - especially if the character has lots of small meshes that start writing out. EACH TIME a mesh starts writing the progress bar pops up and takes over from anything else you are doing on the machine - becomes a tug of war to grab focus back to what you are trying to do!
LOL. S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za _____________________________ ________________________________ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Eugen Sares [softim...@keyvis.at] Sent: 17 August 2012 15:03 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things Am 17.08.2012 12:48, schrieb Matt Lowery: I find the fact that Softimage often makes me doubt my own sanity by saying that the scene I'm about to close has never been saved, even though I saved it just two clicks earlier. Also having just launched Softimage, and gone to the file menu to open a scene, I find it very annoying to have to confirm that I don't want to save the completely empty scene the I'm presented with at start up. This is especially annoying when you are trying to open a scene file that you know will take a good few minutes to open. So you head off to make a nice cuppa only to return and find that the software hasn't even started opening the scene file yet as you still haven't confirmed that you don't want to save an empty scene. Grrrr! Good one! Nags me, too, all the time. There's some internal flag indicating if a scene needs saving. This seems to be broken for the longest time now. On 17/08/2012 06:28, Eugen Sares wrote: - File dialog: Would be nice if renaming was possible. A list of available harddrives is missing. Could be a dropdown menu, or a separate, always visible part of the folder tree (the shortcuts button is more like a workaround for this). Am 16.08.2012 23:31, schrieb Votch: This same behavior with modal windows happens in win7 as well and can be very frustrating. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com<mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com>> wrote: In Linux modal XSI windows aren't quite modal... You can accidentally click behind them and lose focus, wondering why XSI is unresponsive, only to realise in the taskbar there's a window you have to OK to. And like Xavier said, Copy/paste in Linux.... ARGHH! Rarely works and when it does it's like two seconds after I trigger a paste. Behavior varies between softwares, too. "gedit" pastes very quickly but pretty much every other program (like Firefox or SublimeText2) doesn't paste instantly or reliably when having copied from SI. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Len Krenzler <l...@creativecontrol.ca<mailto:l...@creativecontrol.ca>> wrote: A very simple thing I find annoying. In the file menu, there's a import model, and export model but no replace model. Also when UI windows like the material editor and explorer are opened and set where I want them I wish SI would remember their preferred location for next time. -- _________________________________________________ Len Krenzler - Creative Control Media Productions Phone: 780.463.3126<tel:780.463.3126> www.creativecontrol.ca<http://www.creativecontrol.ca> - l...@creativecontrol.ca<mailto:l...@creativecontrol.ca>
