Release Notes for Second Life 1.13.1(1)

Second Life 1.13.1 Beta
Release Notes for Second Life 1.13.1(1) December 11, 2006
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UI changes:
* Hitting enter now clicks the currently-focused button, or the default button if there is one
** If a button has an orange highlight, Enter will press it
* Ctrl-W closes the currently-focused floater
* Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] now move through preferences tabs
* Esc closes menus, then defocuses floaters, then resets the camera position
* By default, hitting enter in an empty chatbar no longer closes the chatbar
** Turn on the "close chat after hitting return" preference if you want this behavior
* Arrow keys always control the avatar when the chat bar is empty, regardless of the status of the 'arrow keys move avatar when chatting' preference
* Enter closes and opens highlighted inventory folder
* Can move through radio options using left/right as well as up/down
* Give focus to the IM text field when you reopen it
* IM window doesn't close if you hit Ctrl-T when it's unfocused
* Floaters handle all keystrokes when focused
** Hitting Enter won't chat when focus is on the UI
* Ctrl-Tab and Tab will get you (almost) anywhere
* Ctrl-Tab cycles through floaters, toolbars, etc.
** Floaters are cycled in the order they were opened, and reordered so that it's easy to switch between the two most recent
* Hitting TAB when nothing has focus goes to chat bar, if available
* Opening a floater automatically puts focus there
* Focus appearance now makes more sense: focused floaters have opaque backgrounds, and lightened title bars; unfocused floaters are transparent
* Clicking in world (or hitting ESC) will remove focus from the UI, and make all floaters transparent
* Alt key access to menus. Hold down Alt and navigate via the underlined letters
* Visual integration of context-sensitive controls with the bottom panel
* Improved focus behavior of notifications and group notifications, and their appearance
* Improvements to type-ahead find in combo and list boxes
* Visual feedback on matching letters when using type-ahead find in combo boxes and lists
* "Cone of context" for color pickers and texture pickers
* Objects visually lose focus when application loses focus, and regain them when application is refocused
* Storage of last focused item in floaters, so that focusing a floater puts focus back where it was last time you were using it
* Mini-map can't take focus, nor can camera/movement controls
* Have to double-click on the mini-map to open the main map
* Mousewheel zooms on the mini-map, and the scale limits allow you to zoom in more
* IM tabs opened by you are added to the right of the open tab (IM tabs opened by other means open to the far right, as before)
* Removed tab characters from most text editors except for the notecard and script editors
* Deprecated Alt-WASD for moving the camera (these keys now select the appropriate menus)
** Use Alt-arrow keys instead
* Hitting enter when in preferences will now close and commit them

Ctrl-T not closing IM window:
Why? What does it do now?

Objects lose focus:
Huh? They go blurry?

Guess I'ma have to log in.

Ack! that was put in *and* taken out in a previous update, because it was causing all kinds of problems with "random jumping". Why is it coming back?

Good!

PLEASE let us turn this off! I'm used to being able to chat while editing prims without losing focus on the edit floater (and thus control of the object I'm editing - VERY important of the object is physica or scripted to move)

[edit - they seem to have separated window focus from edit focus, which avoids this particular problem]

Ugh deprication of to move is next wsad!!!! no...

I think what the above poster meant to say was...WHY OH WHY didn't you make this a toggleable option?

Now we are forced to use TWO hands to control our cameras instead of the one previously... makes moving the camera when editing objects EXTREMELY difficult.

Please provide a preference option to restore the old functionality.

Doesn't the right alt key work, or is it too far from the arrows on your keyboard?

No same problem as the left key... you can move UP and down, left and right with that one hand.. but no way to Pan up or down (like the E and C key used to)... and page up and down are layed out differently on almost every US keyboard I've seen anyway hehe

This version sucks