accelerator keys

R. Robert Bell

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Jun 12, 2001, 5:36:00 PM6/12/01

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What version of AutoCAD?

"tcom" <tc...@tds.net> wrote in message news:f058f...@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
| Where do you go to asign accelerator keys (F3, F4, ...)
| RICK
|

Dean D.

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Jun 12, 2001, 3:26:49 PM6/12/01

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Hit one of these groups up and I bet they will know. I've never worked
with them myself.
autodesk.autocad.customization
autodesk.autocad.2000general
Dean D.

Anthony Dawe

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Jun 13, 2001, 10:22:17 AM6/13/01

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Try adding the following to your menu:

***ACCELERATORS
["F3"]NEA
["F4"]PER,QUA
["F5"]INT,TAN
["F6"]MID,ENDP
["F7"]CEN,NOD
["F9"]INSERT
// *** DO NOT *** define the F10 key...........It is reserved for Windows!!
// *** DO NOT *** define the F11 or F12 keys...All bug watches say problems
will occur!!
//["F11"]'ZOOM E
//["F12"]'ZOOM P

Tony

Anthony Dawe

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Jun 13, 2001, 10:24:25 AM6/13/01

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OOPS....

please disregard the lines following ["F9"]INSERT

Tony

R. Robert Bell

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Jun 13, 2001, 11:46:31 AM6/13/01

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Then you will need to put them in a .mns & .mnu file directly. Tony's post
shows you a sample, but I have a few notes also.

If you want to redefine AutoCAD's standard accelerators, I would advise
commenting them out in ACAD.mns & ACAD.mnu, and placing them in a separate
menu file so your changes won't be wiped out during the next upgrade.

You would then use the MenuLoad command to load your partial menu.

Be sure to specify a MenuGroup in your separate menu.

//
// AutoCAD menu file - C:\My Documents\MyMenu.mns
//

***MENUGROUP=MyMenu

***ACCELERATORS
ID_Copyclip [CONTROL+"C"]
ID_Hyperlink [CONTROL+"K"]
ID_New [CONTROL+"N"]
ID_Open [CONTROL+"O"]
ID_Print [CONTROL+"P"]
[CONTROL+"Q"]^O
[CONTROL+"R"]^V
ID_Save [CONTROL+"S"]
ID_Pasteclip [CONTROL+"V"]
[CONTROL+"W"]'_zoom;_a
ID_Cutclip [CONTROL+"X"]
ID_Redo [CONTROL+"Y"]
ID_U [CONTROL+"Z"]
ID_Modify [CONTROL+"1"]
ID_Content [CONTROL+"2"]
ID_dbConnect [CONTROL+"6"]
[CONTROL+"F1"]'_rtpan
[CONTROL+"F2"]'_rtzoom
["F4"]_nea
["F5"]_endp,_int,_qua
["F6"]_mid,_cen
["F7"]_node,_ins
ID_VBARun [ALT+"F8"]
ID_VBAIDE [ALT+"F11"]
["F12"]qsave

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| R2000 and prior,
| thanks,
|

Dan Allen

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Jun 15, 2001, 2:11:30 PM6/15/01

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In R14, we load our accelerators from a partial menu and they work fine
without commenting out acad.mns. Note that we force acad to unload and
reload the partial menu with every drawing load. To make this fast, the
partial menu only has the accelerators.

Dan

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> This brings up a question I have. Our company has a policy that we are NOT
to alter out-of-the box files. We can customize all we want, but it must be
in our own menu's. Fair enough. But how to reassign accelerator keys, aux
menus, etc. WITHOUT commenting them out of the acad.mns files. THAT is what
I'm trying to figure out. Any Ideas?
> Thanks
> Kurt Merritt
>
>

R. Robert Bell

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Jun 15, 2001, 2:58:40 PM6/15/01

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Then stay away from _redefining_ standard keys. Sorry, but that's the only
way to maintain the policy. However, AUX menus are no problem:

(menucmd "GacadA3=mw.AUX3") ; replace <ctrl><rclick>
(menucmd "GacadA4=mw.AUX4") ; replace <shift><ctrl><rclick>

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Dean Saadallah

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Jun 17, 2001, 10:27:10 AM6/17/01

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You got good answers already, but I just wanted to add my two cents worth
about the policy. In my offices, the user can alter and set up the screen
files, menus and accelerators in the MNS file any way they want, the MNU/MNL
files are the ones off limits. If I ever need to restore factory/office
settings, reloading the MNU file takes care of the problem for me. I like to
give my users a little freedom within our very tight office standards and
settings.

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