how to block the selection when using the free hand pencil?

[hbouzagl]

Hi,
I want to deactivate the selection of what I just draw with the freehand pencil tool (if you click on the already drawn part to continue to draw, then you see the already drawn part selected and moved with the mouse).
I want to continue to draw with the freehand tool without the ability to select anything....

Regards

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello hbouzagl,

Simply press the Shift Key, and you would be able to start a new pencil line without selecting any existing.

Best,
Stefan

[hbouzagl]

Hi,
I have tested it on a standard PC with keyboard but it's impossible to my customer to do this because we do not have access to a keyboard but only a digital screen with Pen...
Is it possible to enable this without pressing the shift key?
It's really a very big issue for me and If I do not found the way to solve it then I loose my customer (it's one the biggest that I have !!!)

Regards

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello hbouzagl,

I would suggest that we continue the discussion in the other topic as the ticket I made and the comments from the devs would be posted there.

Best,
Stefan

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi, hbouzagl.

Is it possible to enable this without pressing the shift key?

You may use undocumented property(s):
ctrl.SetProperty("Commenting.ExclusiveTools", 1, 0);
// - after this the user cannot be select the existing annotation by mouse when any commenting tool is active and SHIFT key is not pressed
ctrl.SetProperty("Commenting.ExclusiveNonCommTools", 1, 0);
// - optionally, after this the user cannot be select the existing annotation by mouse when any non-commenting tool (hand, text selection, snapshot, zoom in/out tools) is active and SHIFT key is not pressed.

Call it before any document opening..

HTH.

[sunbun]

where shall i "call" these instructions?
somewhere in the viewer before opening a document? starting the viewer in the console and there writing these instructions?
please explain a little bit.

[John - Tracker Supp]

The answer is already in thre previous answer from Vasyl :

Call it before any document opening..

Have you tried ?

[sunbun]

what do you mean with "call it"?
where should i type in this:

ctrl.SetProperty("Commenting.ExclusiveTools", 1, 0);

english is not my mothertongue so i do not understand what you mean just with "call it" in connection with this ctrl...-instruction.
so please explain with a few additional words!

[hbouzagl]

Hi,
for me, I have tried it and it work as I want and solved this problem.
Regards

[sunbun]

And where do you type that in?

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello sunbun,

hbouzagl is a developer using our SDK products - at first I suggested that we merge the two discussion you and him opened at the same time, as if there was a problem, the solution would have most certainly worked for both of you.

The answer Vasyl gave is for the developer only.

You will need to open the Viewer, and go to Edit -> Preferences -> Commenting, and enable the two Exclusive modes options available there.

Best,
Stefan

[sunbun]

Thanks, now it makes sense

Unfortunately the exclusive mode does not work. I tried it about 20 times, in every possible combination.
And as i told in the other topic my problem occurs not when i already have written something and want to continue it.
My problem is that it is not even possible to start writing, as most of the words begin with a vertical line, but the viewer only accepts a beginning with a horizontal line. and as you can imagine it is impossible to write natural and fast that way.

I am very disappointed that it now seems as I have spend the money for nothing. I mean, the whole software is very versatile and has so many features - but I mainly need the handwriting-feature of the viewer. As Paul O'Rorke told in the other topic there is no other solution currently available and therefore I have to buy now the other software that works with my hardware.

Thanx for the answers and please let me know as soon as there is maybe a new solution available, but I am afraid it will be too late...

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi sunbun,

do not give up all hope yet. We are constantly working on improving PDF-XChange Viewer and while the work on the next major version has reached a stage where new features or work items cannot be added for the initial release, we will continue to work on improving the interface for tablet input in subsequent releases.

hth