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ID'ing fill patterns in the program
Is there a way to identify the fill patterns from within FM8? I can look at the patterns with File Explorer and see that a given pattern is Jungle_01_V, but don't see a way to ID them when selecting a pattern from the Fill Style selector.
Thanks in advance
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I'm glad that you brought this up. It's something that I had intended to suggest to Ed Diana for FM9 and forgot. Being able to see the file name of a fill and also of a symbol at selection time would save a lot of time in some cases.
As to your question, I'm willing to be surprised, but I'm rather certain that the answer is no.
Mark, FM9 will show the symbol name if you hover over it in the palette. Its supposed to be doing that in FM8, but it wasn't working. I'll see what I can do for fill patterns as well. But no, right now there isn't a way of identifying it.
I guess one work around is to put the relevant files in folders labeled: Desert, Mountains, Hills, etc.
As far as I can tell, hovering over fill patterns in FM9 does not bring the file name up. Hovering over map symbols does.
I'll add this to the next update, should be over the next week or so.