"Quick drill" process idea
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 7:26 pm
I hope this forum is still the place to put suggestions. I don't see much new since 2015. Alas,...
Setting "simple" drill is a bit of a chore. (ex. creating a simple line of marchers)
Currently:
- Switch to Form Selection Mode
- Choose Line tool
- Create line
- Switch to Performer Selection Mode
- Select Performers
- Drag on top of form
- (fix order if needed)
Suggestion: (staying in Performer Selection Mode)
- Drag one player to a point on the field (the end point of what will become the line)
- Drag another player to another point on the field (the other end of what will become the line)
- Select all the players that will be the line (i.e. the Group)
- Press CTRL-L (or something). BAM! The Group lines up between the players. Done.
This keeps the writer in the main mode for much of the writing process and saves a ton of time. (Drag, Drag, Select, CTRL-L)
(There were programs years ago call MacDrill Writer and Drill Quest that did this. I could write a dozen pages an hour using this method).
The other idea is to have a "Smooth Interval" keystroke. (CTRL-I). Essentially, if you move an endpoint player, or add/remove players from a form, simply select all the players and CTRL-I, BAM, they space themselves out within the form.
These two keystrokes can help everyone be twice as productive, and I'd love to see them implemented.
Thanks,
-Brad
Setting "simple" drill is a bit of a chore. (ex. creating a simple line of marchers)
Currently:
- Switch to Form Selection Mode
- Choose Line tool
- Create line
- Switch to Performer Selection Mode
- Select Performers
- Drag on top of form
- (fix order if needed)
Suggestion: (staying in Performer Selection Mode)
- Drag one player to a point on the field (the end point of what will become the line)
- Drag another player to another point on the field (the other end of what will become the line)
- Select all the players that will be the line (i.e. the Group)
- Press CTRL-L (or something). BAM! The Group lines up between the players. Done.
This keeps the writer in the main mode for much of the writing process and saves a ton of time. (Drag, Drag, Select, CTRL-L)
(There were programs years ago call MacDrill Writer and Drill Quest that did this. I could write a dozen pages an hour using this method).
The other idea is to have a "Smooth Interval" keystroke. (CTRL-I). Essentially, if you move an endpoint player, or add/remove players from a form, simply select all the players and CTRL-I, BAM, they space themselves out within the form.
These two keystrokes can help everyone be twice as productive, and I'd love to see them implemented.
Thanks,
-Brad