AlfaCAD news

16-11-2024

1. A new element has been added to the user interface, which has not been present in AlfaCAD so far. It is a slider (also known as a "track bar"), horizontal or vertical, with a submerged slot with a scalable thumb.

The slider has been used in the layers dialog and is used to quickly scroll through them when the number of existing layers significantly exceeds the number of layers that can be displayed simultaneously in the dialog, which depends on the given size of the AlfaCAD desktop window and the selected interface font size.

2. Fixed a bug in the procedure for checking for program updates or its resources in the cloud. In the absence of a network connection or cloud problems, when it comes time to check if an update exists, a 5-second time limit is applied, after which attempts to connect to the cloud are abandoned.

3. The URL and credentials for the cloud are no longer hard-coded, they are editable in the included CLOUD.INI file. This will allow you to change the data in the future in an easy way, without having to interfere with the program.

11-11-2024

1. Improved editing of numeric value edit fields and text fields in dialog windows.

Currently, these fields already have interaction with the pointing device (mouse), for now in a very limited scope, only to indicate a point in the text for placing the cursor.

In the next iteration of the program, functions for selecting text for cutting or changing will be included.

In the case of numeric value fields (coordinates, line parameters, length, angle, distance, number of vertices or other value specific to the drawn or edited object), the cursor is automatically placed in the value edit field at the end of the text.

This makes it easier to edit the value if such interaction is needed.