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Select Branch to Redo Dialog
This dialog appears when you Edit/Redo a multi-way branch item, or right-click the Undo button exactly back to a multiway branch. It presents you with several alternative Redo branches to perform.
In this example of a 4-way branch, there are three earlier branches ("Slow but sure", "Set Constraints/Alignments", and "Set solve-independently + 2 more"); the current branch is "Set solve-independently"). This is the result of clicking the Slow but sure checkbox, Undo, Constrain, Undo, Independent, then right-clicking Undo and selecting the 3-way branch item.
The first three choices would restore the respective state, ie Slow but sure for the first, or Constrain for the second. The third choice starts out with solve-independently but contains two additional undo items, ie settings that you've changed earlier.
Tip 1 : You can double-click an entry to give it a better name, especially if the first undo entry (as used for the name) isn't sufficiently indicative of what that branch is all about.
Tip 2 : If you hover the mouse over one of the choices, you'll see a tooltip listing the undo items it contains (up to a limit set by some preferences). Be careful to move from outside the listbox directly to the item of interest: once the tooltip appears, moving the mouse further won't list another entry.
Tip 3 : You can select a branch and hit the Delete key to delete that branch and all the undo records associated with it. You can't undo that, and you can't delete the current branch.
The fourth list item would restore the Independently branch—here we would be undoing it, then redoing it, accomplishing nothing in total in this example.
The fifth item would keep us on the same branch, but undo everything back to the branch. Typically we'd use this right before we did something else, ie to create a fourth branch!
When selecting any branch, all the associated items are redone (in order), which includes any additional branch points. So after you select a branch, you may be presented with additional copies of the dialog, to select which of the subsequent branches to follow. (That's how you get entire trees of branches.)
The "To leaf without questions" checkbox suppresses those additional questions; if there would be additional dialogs, the "Redo current" option is automatically selected.
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