Fix FillPrinter Please!

[Farad]

The Problem:
This fillprinter (download), which I believe is MARBLE MAN's, works perfectly except for one thing.

Everytime you want to use the fillprinter on a new brick to print the same thing that you printed on the last brick, you have to manually switch it back to the 'prints' tab because it always takes you to the 'letters' menu. This can waste a lot of time when you need to use the fillprinter many times to complete a build.


Really Drawn out explanation if you still don't understand:
You can understand the issue by looking at how the default printer tool works. When you use it on some kind of print brick, it brings up a menu, right? Within that menu are 2 tabs - prints and letters. Lets say, in the menu, you click on a print that you want to use on a brick. Now that you have printed that brick, lets say you want to go make the same print on another brick. You use your printer on it, the menu comes up, and it is designed so that when the menu comes back up, your mouse is on the menu, positioned wherever it was when you last had your mouse on the menu, which was when you selected the print from earlier. It is also designed to take you to  the tab you had it on last, in this case, the prints tab.

The fillprinter takes you to the letters tab, even if you were in the prints tab when you were last used the fillprinter.


Why It's a Problem:
When this gets fixed all you will have to do is double click with the fillprinter at a brick and it should use the print you last used. This would save a ton of time when you need to fillprint many many times.

Thanks

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[Farad]

bump.

One more thing. I don't know for sure if this is related but it started happening after I downloaded the fillprinter:
Sometimes when I join my dedicated server - which is hosted by a service - I notice that the prints don't show up at all in the menu, but the letters do. I've learned that if I re-join the server, it tends to make the prints show back up.

Thought I would throw this out there in case this is like an easy fix for coders, idk.
But note that this is a much smaller issue than the one in my original post. Still, any help is appreciated.

[ZombieDude]

It takes too much time to switch tabs

what

[Farad]

what

I'll try to explain it as clear as I can: You can understand the issue by looking at how the default printer tool works. When you use it on some kind of print brick, it brings up a menu, right? Within that menu are 2 tabs - prints and letters. Lets say, in the menu, you click on a print that you want to use on a brick. Now that you have printed that brick, lets say you want to go make the same print on another brick. You use your printer on it, the menu comes up, and it is designed so that when the menu comes back up, your mouse is on the menu, positioned wherever it was when you last had your mouse on the menu, which was when you selected the print from earlier. It is also designed to take you to  the tab you had it on last, in this case, the prints tab.


The fillprinter takes you to the letters tab, even if you were in the prints tab when you were last used the fillprinter.

So everytime you want to use the fillprinter on a new brick to print the same thing that you printed on the last brick, you have to manually switch it back to the 'prints' tab. This can waste a lot of time when you need to use the fillprinter hundreds of times to complete a build.

I hope this helps, but let me know if you still don't understand. I can provide pictures if you need further understanding.


EDIT: I moved this explanation of the problem to the OP. It is better than what I had before.

[ZombieDude]

-snip-

i'm not saying i don't understand. i'm saying literally 'what the forget' because switching menus takes like 2 seconds to do. it's not a "huge problem" and a huge "bug that needs to be fixed". you only need to use the fillprinter like a few times in a build too.

[Farad]

you only need to use the fillprinter like a few times in a build too.

That is how I viewed this before I started working on my speedkart tracks. I use it 99x more than I thought I would. I can't express to you how much of an issue this really is to me, and how awesome it would be if someone fixed it.

It's a big hassle to print each separate panel of this bridge with this fillprinter, for example:


It took me like 15 minutes to print all of those, when it should have only taken like 2 minutes.
The reason I ended up having to re-print every panel was because I was trying to find which print looked best.
I've actually re-printed this bridge and other things similar to this many times in just this one track. The time adds up.

When you're working on a big project, it's necessary that you can finish things efficiently or you will lose interest. So please help me! You the real mvp if you have read all of this. Thanks

[Thorfin25]

Place some print bricks that bridge the gap, then fill printer it, then delete them. Done.

[Farad]

Place some print bricks that bridge the gap, then fill printer it, then delete them. Done.

Ya I considered doing that, but for whatever reason I had every other panel a different print, so it would end up taking even more time than using the fill printer in the first place. I have used that solution many times in other circumstances. However, that solution breaks down when you want to change the print on several objects spread all around the huge track, it would take a lot of time just placing connector bricks.

I really don't want to complain about the few responses I have gotten but I can't help but notice they are basically saying, "it's a small issue, thus it doesn't matter," and I understand your reasoning. Why should you spend your time solving small problems when you could be doing other crap. My response to that reasoning is that you wouldn't understand how tedious this fill printer can be to use without actually building with it. For the 5-6, maybe 7 years that I have played blockland, I have only posted something like this a few times in S&R. This fillprinter is actually one of the few complications I've had with similar stuff in blockland.

I don't know how difficult it is for a coder to fix something like this, but surely it would be worth benefitting all future builders that use this add on.

[GhostStar]

Tldr dem posts man.

anyways I had no idea this addon existed. I thought you were going to be asking about the SAG print fill and how it doesnt work on modter.

[Farad]

Tldr dem posts man.

anyways I had no idea this addon existed. I thought you were going to be asking about the SAG print fill and how it doesnt work on modter.

Ironically the length of my posts have a direct correlation with how much the issue bothers me. Just trying to be concise so maybe someone will understand what's going on and why it matters.

If only I could contact marble man..

[GhostStar]

Ironically the length of my posts have a direct correlation with how much the issue bothers me. Just trying to be concise so maybe someone will understand what's going on and why it matters.

If only I could contact marble man..

ive been trying to get a hold of Pandan and phydox for years. it just wont happen.

[Farad]

I think it might be better to have posted this in Coding Help or General Mod Help since the issue is with coding, but cross-posting in different forums isn't allowed, so I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

[GhostStar]

lock this thread and remake it in coding

[Farad]

lock this thread and remake it in coding

Alright. Thanks.