Distance
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I remember seeing this before, but can't recall the solution. Using the Info-Distance ring menu, the results are showing up as:
the command line shows DIST2. I cant remember how to reset the command.
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Mine is using DISTANCE. Whether I use the menu or type that on the keyboard I get:
Is that what you wanted instead of what you've got?
I can make it switch to DIST2 temprorarily, but only if I type that command immediately after I pick Distance in the menu.
Not sure how to change the behaviour of that command either way.
This thread might help
If you're mapping using SS4, this is the standard setting using the drop-down menu Distance command, for reasons nobody seems very clear about. It's extremely irritating, as while you can usually, if eventually, work out the actual distance information you need from that information pane, it's often a struggle. Beyond remembering you need to type-in DISTANCE every time you want to measure a distance in an SS4 map, there isn't an alternative, beyond the way described by Remy Monsen in Sue's latest posting above.
Hopefully, this default setting will never be used again for any other mapping style!
The new dialog is actually better in many ways, giving you additional information that often is very helpful, as well as allowing you to easily select values and copy to the keyboard since it uses edit fields. The only issue is that it is hard to read.
If you don't like the new dialog, you can edit the SS4 menu file (ss4.mnu) in the data directory, search for DIST2 and replace it with DISTANCE. The change may get reverted the next time you install an update, bit those aren't all that frequent.
Oh, and this dialog will be improved in CC4.
I have to disagree Remy. If I ask for a distance, I have no interest in bearings or what the X,Y coordinates I might be using are. If I need that information, there are other dialogue panes I could call up.
Given that a straightforward, single-value distance is what the distance command provides in every other instance, it's completely counterintuitive to have this one SS4 instance where it's forcing me to accept a totally different setting, with no easy way to change it; having to fiddle about with the menu files simply to use one basic command correctly is simply pointless timewasting.
Somewhat trepidatious as to what "this dialog will be improved in CC4" might mean, if it'll simply mean trying to use the distance command will be more difficult than it is everywhere except SS4 right now!
I agree that it is jarring to have SS4 present something quite different than what you get everywhere else. I am no fan of that either, I like a consistent experience.
But as for the dialog itself, I personally don't mind having additional information. My beef is when the dialog is hard to read, like DIST2 is now, but as long as it is easy to see the data I want without having to hunt around for it, I like having the additional data at my fingertips. Knowing both the distance and the x/y components of that distance is quite useful to me at times, and the ability to select and copy text from the dialog easily is also a plus. And while you certainly can find that information by using other methods in CC3+, finding the X/Y components is slightly cumbersome if not necessarily hard. So as I see it, as long as it is just as easy to see the distance at a glance as it is in the old dialog, then extra information is just a plus. It is only when the extra information makes it harder to read, like the current DIST2 dialog, that I find it an issue.
Wait. WHAT? SS4 is out, but not listed in store?
Symbol Set 4 is Mike's "Dungeon's of Schley".
Not to be confused with CC4, which definitely isn't out yet.
I agree with Monsen, I think. The issue for me isn't the extra info, it's that the dialogue is hard to interpret.
I had to look at the screen shot several times to get that the straight distance value was actually there. Yeah, it's confusing.