Mac OS X Leopard and SU - text tool problem

Mark Leichliter · 26 Nov 2007, 16:14

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 · 26 Nov 2007, 20:36

Same problem here.

2.1GHz IMac
Mac OS 10.5.1
Sketchup 6.0 (6.0.1145)

tim · 27 Nov 2007, 02:58

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 · 27 Nov 2007, 12:59

@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 · 27 Nov 2007, 16:22

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 · 28 Nov 2007, 13:47

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

Matthew.

Gaieus · 28 Nov 2007, 13:47

Thanks Brad for the reply!

brad · 28 Nov 2007, 15:17

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
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mariocha · 15 Dec 2007, 09:10

@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 · 15 Dec 2007, 11:28

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 · 15 Dec 2007, 19:22

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 · 15 Dec 2007, 22:28

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

tim · 24 Dec 2007, 06:01

@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.