Mac OS X Leopard and SU - text tool problem

Gaieus

In the main Leopard thread someone suggested starting a new thread for specific bugs, so here's mine.

Yes that was Brad, I think, of the Google team.

If you don't mind I'm moving this thread into the Bugs forum immediately since they seem to be visiting that one more regularly than other forums.

mariocha

@mcn said:

will only allow the default font (which seems to be Tahoma).

Same problem here. Mac OS 10.5.1

Mark Leichliter

I get this same behavior. It looks like SU uses a custom font dialog for this - not sure why they don't use the system default. I tried changing fonts using two methods: by just selecting the text, pressing Command-T for the font selection dialog, and making changes therein - nothing happens. Second method was using the model info window and utilizing the "select all screen text" and "update selected text" buttons - again with no effect.

davekn

Same problem here.

2.1GHz IMac
Mac OS 10.5.1
Sketchup 6.0 (6.0.1145)

tim

Weird; on my macbook I can do filled text ok but I do have the non-responsive font dialogue. except that I can type a font size value in the top-right field.

mariocha

@unknownuser said:

I can type a font size value in the top-right field.

and move the slider also.
But still cannot change font indeed.

Mark Leichliter

Found this in my console (in case it helps):
11/26/07 9:03:34 AM SketchUp[2393] *** -[SkpFontPanel tableView:shouldSelectRow:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x2223c00

MCN

Thank you, Brad. I'm glad to know it's being worked on.

Matthew.

Gaieus

Thanks Brad for the reply!

brad

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late response on this topic.

The Font problem is a known issue with Leopard using the 3D Text Tool.

Here are a couple of other gotchas...All the problems are being worked on as I type and we hope to have this problems resolved soon.

A brief Leopard update

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Hope this helps.

Brad
Google SketchUp QA

mariocha

@unknownuser said:

The Font problem is a known issue with Leopard using the 3D Text Tool.

Brad
Google SketchUp QA

It is not only 3D Text Tool, it is ALL Text tolls !!!
Hum... I hate a response which is off the matter. Feels like a quick "get it off my desk".

Gaieus

Hi Guys,

Though I'm on Windows, I know that most recent maintenance release 4 covered some issues with Leopard.
Could you download and install and check back whether the problem still exists?

mariocha

Hey !!! After reading your message, I launched SU and, bing, it says a newer version is available.
And, YES ! the text problem is solved ! Mac v.6.0 (6.4.120)
Great Job guys !

Gaieus

Ah, good news then.
Thanks for reporting back (they need reassurance at the very moment...)

tim

@mariocha said:

Hey !!! After reading your message, I launched SU and, bing, it says a newer version is available.
And, YES ! the text problem is solved ! Mac v.6.0 (6.4.120)

Hmm, I have that same version and although I can set the font and size of 3D text I can't do anything with dimensional or other text; the font dialogue is simply ignored and attempting to use the context menu and the font->styles option just makes a chirp.