This is a "Sticky Key" ! ... so they can do it... What about transforms
keys ? ;-)

On 28 March 2017 at 09:31, Andy Goehler <lists.andy.goeh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> this is the awesome support at SideFX
>
> Available in the daily builds.
> yesterday
> Houdini 16.0.561 Added a hotkey to temporary toggle the state of the
> "Allow Dropping Nodes on Wires" preference while in the middle of dragging
> a node.
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 at 12:22, Andy Nicholas <a...@andynicholas.com> wrote:
>
>> No problem Jonathan.
>>
>> A quick update to this following discussions with SideFX:
>>
>> 1) I don't recall if this was mentioned in the thread earlier, but they
>> mentioned that you can enable/disable the auto-connect on wires using
>> CTRL+8 or in the Network View menu under Tools-> Allow Dropping Nodes on
>> Wires. This doesn't work during a drag operation though, so I've gone back
>> and explained the desired workflow of having a modifier key to toggle the
>> behaviour during the dragging of nodes. I just thought I'd post this in
>> here now case it's useful to anyone in the mean time.
>>
>> 2) They pointed out that I was incorrect when I said earlier in this
>> thread there wasn't an equivalent view of Softimage's Explorer view where
>> you can see clean hierarchies of objects. You can do it in the Tree View.
>> You just need to enable the Object Filter (the first button in the Tree
>> View's tool bar). You can also right click on the Tree View toolbar, and
>> there are various other options in there which can be helpful for sorting
>> and grouping the objects in a tree structure. Definitely worth playing with
>> anyway. Sorry for the misinformation before!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> A
>>
>>
>> On 26/03/2017 13:55, Jonathan Moore wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Andy.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [
>> mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
>> <softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] *On Behalf Of *Andy Nicholas
>> *Sent:* 26 March 2017 00:37
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>> <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: Random Thoughts about H.
>>
>>
>>
>> I also like Pauls idea of a modifier key to disable the auto connection
>> on demand. Definitely seems a worthwhile enhancement request.
>>
>>
>>
>> FYI, I’ve submitted an RFE to Side Effects and sent them the link to this
>> thread.
>>
>>
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>>
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