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burtonposey

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NGUI Green handles - can I remove these
« on: April 30, 2013, 02:06:07 PM »
These things have become a hindrance to me being able to position things and work with the built-in Unity handles. I tried to look for some help on this a month or so ago and I think it was stated that this would be rectified after GDC. I have the latest version and these green handles still constantly get in my way or alter the default Unity behavior. I go to move on the X, sometimes it stretches my Label. Sometimes it's offered to rotate the label for me. It also has changed the default behavior of trying to move on one axes to two axes. Why would that be a default behavior? I would use the new built-in plane movement on the Unity handles if I wanted to do that.

While these handles probably have their place, maybe they should be put behind a modifier key. I am going to have to input all my positioning of NGUI created assets in the Inspector because the functionality is blocked in the Scene view by these intrusive green handles. I truly appreciate you guys wanting to improve the product, but this was a misstep and I might go and hack the code up to remove it myself if I need to. I don't want to get away from your versions though.

Please let me know how I can help with tweaking, testing whatever. It's getting in my way of using your great product. Thank you for hearing me out and I hope my feedback was helpful. It's not meant to be critical of you guys as developers, I'm just passionate enough about how easy it's been to use NGUI to this point and want to fight to keep it that way.

I'm using Macbook Pro Retina (using Unity on a Thunderbolt Display) and I have Unity 4.1.0f4

Thanks again
« Last Edit: April 30, 2013, 02:11:20 PM by burtonposey »

DCalabrese

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Re: NGUI Green handles - can I remove these
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2013, 02:51:31 PM »
I have to second this. The handles are obtrusive and more an annoyance than anything. I would request we at least have an option to enable / disable them, and allow us to optionally go back to the old interface. I've started downgrading to an older version of NGUI in most of our current projects due to interface issues with the handles among a number of other problems in the newer NGUI versions.

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Re: NGUI Green handles - can I remove these
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2013, 02:53:36 PM »
I believe that the handles are optional in the next version (2.6). Standard license users just need to wait until ArenMook feels comfortable releasing the next version to the public.

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Re: NGUI Green handles - can I remove these
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2013, 10:57:09 PM »
Yup, it's a toggle in 2.6.0.