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February 07, 2015, 04:46:32 pm
Hi IStonia,

I have been looking at the streamline tools "Home" key use. To bring up tool options during use of streamline tools. It does not appear to be working as you decribe.

There are two types of basic streamline tools
- The first type are those ones which have no ui options.
- The second type are those ones which has an option ui that you can show/hide by tapping Home key once the tool is activated. The tool names have '#' at the end.

There are two variations of the second type basic streamline tool.
- The first one has a default option set. If the option ui is visible, the ui options are used. Otherwise the dault option set will be used. For example, if you activated a polygon vertex normal direction extrusion tool but you want to do it in average direction. Without droping the tool, you tap Home key to bring up the ui, choose option from the ui then do the operation. You can hide the ui by tapping Home key again. This kind of tool suits situations where you use it very often.
- The seond one has no default option set, so it will alway use the options used in the ui regardless it's visible or not. For example, a general purpose polygon extrude tool. If you use the normal direction option 90% of the time and use the other options occasionally, you can set its ui options to normal direction then hide the ui. Only when you want to change your options you bring up the option ui again. This kind of tool suits situations where only one option is used very often and others seldom. So you don't have to make all the similar tools available through StreamLine tools and this can reduce your ui.

For the Tools that have '#', yes the options do appear when tapping "Home" key, but the options do not always stay on screen to be able to make changes