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Part III — Other Customizations Chapter 15. Designing Tool & Other Palettes ......................245 Chapter 16. Designing Simple and Complex Linetypes ..............267 Chapter 17. Patterning Hatches .................................279 Chapter 18. Decoding Shapes and Fonts ..........................291 Chapter 19. Coding Field Text ..................................305 Part IV — Programming BricsCAD Chapter 20. Writing Scripts ....................................333 Chapter 21. Programming with LISP .............................341 Chapter 22. Designing Dialog Boxes with DCL .....................373 Chapter 23. Dabbling in VBA ...................................405 Part V — Appendices Appendix A. Command Summary ...............................439 Appendix B. System Variables and Settings ........................459 Appendix C. Concise DCL Reference .............................477 Appendix D. Concise LISP Reference .............................523
Full Table of Contents Part I — Customizing the BricsCAD Environment 1. Introduction to Customizing BricsCAD ......... 3 The Many Ways to Customizing ....................................4 Which Customization? .............................................. 5 Versions of BricsCAD ............................................... 5 58 Tips for BricsCAD Users ........................................7 For Further Reference ...........................................18 Tutorial Books ................................................... 18 BricsCAD API References ........................................... 18 DWG, DXF, and DWF References .................................... 18 2. Adjusting BricsCAD’s Settings ...............19 Touring the Settings Dialog Box ...................................20 Settings Dialog Box: Toolbar ........................................ 21 Categorized/Alphabetic Sorting. ..................................... 21 Export Settings. .................................................... 21 Exporting Variables. ................................................ 23 Drawing/Dimensions/Program Options. ............................... 24 Finding Variables. .................................................. 25 Accessing and Changing Values ..................................... 26 Variables Specific to Windows. ....................................... 27 Changing Variables at the Command Prompt ........................27
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Page 3: Summary of Contents Part I — Cust
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Page 9 and 10: Customizing Buttons ...............
Page 11 and 12: 10. Customizing Keystroke Shortcuts
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Page 15 and 16: SHX in GD&T .......................
Page 17 and 18: OLE (object linking and embedding)
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Page 23 and 24: PART I Customizing the BricsCAD Env
Page 25 and 26: CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Customizi
Page 27 and 28: WHICH CUSTOMIZATION? That said, you
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Page 33 and 34: tip 18. Using entity snaps, you wil
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Page 39 and 40: tip 58. To get a count of entities
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Page 43 and 44: SETTINGS DIALOG BOX: TOOLBAR The to
Page 45 and 46: Exporting Variables To export the s
Page 47 and 48: Opening one section collapses the o
Page 49 and 50: Variables Specific to Windows Some
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CATALOG OF COMMAND-LINE SWITCHES As
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PL Switch - Batch Plotting The pl s
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In a similar manner, you can make c
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UI Parameters Controlled By the OS
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Most of these options are found nea
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Support File Paths BricsCAD uses a
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c. You can choose a folder on your
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Templates Paths and Files Template
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The .arg file stores settings in th
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CHAPTER 4 Adapting the User Interfa
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Customizing the Look From Control B
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The following table illustrates the
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• Drag the bar’s top border to
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Related System Variables The follow
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The CmdLineFontName variable specif
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To switch between ribbons, you have
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PART II Working with the Customize
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CHAPTER 5 Introduction to the Custo
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When you open the Customize dialog
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ABOUT CUI FILES Default.cui is the
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In Windows, default.cui files are f
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When you choose a tab, the Customiz
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Using Partial Menus to Customize Br
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c. In the File Manager, paste the t
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CHAPTER 6 Customizing the Menu Bar
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MODIFYING THE MENU BAR BricsCAD lis
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UNDERSTANDING MENU TITLE CONVENTION
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Transparent - ' You do not prefix m
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5. To add a the new menu item above
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Did you make a horrible mistake? Th
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Customizing Context Menus Context m
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The structure of the context menu
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e. Add text to the Menu Title, such
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CHAPTER 7 Customizing Toolbars and
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Customizing the Look of Toolbars Th
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Turning Toolbars On and Off When yo
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3. To create the new toolbar, right
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Alternative Method There is a secon
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BricsCAD comes with nearly a dozen
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About Flyouts Flyouts are sub-toolb
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Adding Separators to Toolbars To ad
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Renaming Toolbars and Buttons You c
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Editing the Title Name and the Help
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d. Click Open, and then repeat for
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CHAPTER 8 Writing Macros and Diesel
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QUICK SUMMARY OF DIESEL FUNCTIONS T
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Nothing is needed at the end to ter
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Let’s look again at the macro, th
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Diesel Coding Sometimes you need ad
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Toggling Grayouts To toggle the col
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You’ve made the menu more useful
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Now the check mark is prominent: Le
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(When we count, we count like this:
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2. Then you can access it inside th
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LOGIC FUNCTIONS The logic functions
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CONVERSION FUNCTION The conversion
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UPPER The upper (uppercase) functio
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GETVAR The getvar (Get Variable) fu
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CHAPTER 9 Customizing Ribbon Tabs a
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The Structure of Ribbons Along the
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5. Open the Ribbon Tabs node by cli
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Copying Panels Should you want to h
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3. To add your new tab to the works
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Copying Tabs When you hold down the
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3. The very first thing you do with
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CATALOG OF PANEL ELEMENTS Inserting
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Add Launcher A launcher is a small
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Append Split Button To create a fly
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At time of writing, the Behavior pa
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CHAPTER 10 Customizing Keystroke Sh
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CONTROL KEYS On Mac computers, pres
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Here is a mapping between the keys
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Here is how you locate the command:
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5. BricsCAD asks if you are sure; c
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Customizing Command Aliases As well
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10 Customizing Keystroke Shortcuts,
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viewpoint -viewpoint viewports vl v
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H hatch bh, h -hatch -bh,-h hatched
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TIPS Aliases are stored in the the
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Hand-Coding Aliases If you wish to
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Quotation marks let the operating s
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CHAPTER 11 Customizing Mouse, Doubl
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About Mice and Their Buttons The fi
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Software for defining Logitech mous
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The 3D mice range in size from simp
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Defining Actions for Mouse Buttons
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c. Drag it to the correct button po
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DEFINING ACTIONS FOR TABLET BUTTONS
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The tablet overlay drawing provided
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CHAPTER 12 Customizing Rollover Pro
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TUTORIAL: HOW TO CHANGE PROPERTIES
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In this tutorial, you turn off the
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CHAPTER 13 Customizing Workspaces B
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SWITCHING BETWEEN WORKSPACES You ch
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Scroll bars: toggle the display of
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Workspace properties have the follo
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Adding and Removing Menus You add a
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Property ID Title Meaning Identifie
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The display of a ribbon tab in a wo
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Adding and Removing Quad Reactors Y
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The dialog box provides these optio
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CHAPTER 14 Customizing the Quad The
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ABOUT THE QUAD The Quad interface i
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Dimensioning with Quad The Quad is
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ABOUT QUAD GROUPS The Workspace tab
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PART III Other Customizations
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CHAPTER 15 Designing Tool & Other P
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BricsCAD recognizes form features i
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Paste pastes data from the Clipboar
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View Options — displays the same
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. Right-click a blank area of the p
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. In the Select Image Position File
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CREATING PALETTE GROUPS You can cre
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5. When done, click Close. Notice t
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Customizing the Content Browser Pan
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The format of the panel is customiz
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Click + while a Rule item is select
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CHAPTER 16 Designing Simple and Com
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The BricsCAD package includes many
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Scaling Linetypes Like text, linety
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Customizing Linetypes BricsCAD has
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CREATING LINETYPES WITH TEXT EDITOR
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Here, ASCII characters created smil
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CHAPTER 17 Patterning Hatches Despi
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The result is like the samples illu
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System Variables that Control Hatch
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HATCH COMMAND Creating custom hatch
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Description The text following the
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The x-offset and y-offset parameter
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CHAPTER 18 Decoding Shapes and Font
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Fonts, Complex Linetypes, and Shape
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MacOS: Default font storage locatio
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Like many other customization files
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Hexadecimal Conversion Autodesk use
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Save (Push) - 5/005 Code 5 saves (p
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• radius is a value between 1 and
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CHAPTER 19 Coding Field Text Fields
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2. You select the field you want by
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1. Start the MText command, and the
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4. Select a system variable like th
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3. Now double-click the blue, and n
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These events are controlled with th
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Updating the Field Text With the fi
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Complete Field Code Reference GROUP
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%aun — Angular Units Specifies ho
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DATE & TIME FORMAT CODES Format Fie
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OBJECTS AND PROPERTY NAMES In gener
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Ellipses Property Name Field Code F
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Single-line Text Property Name Fiel
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PART III Programming BricsCAD
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CHAPTER 20 Writing Scripts BricsCAD
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Another limitation is that scripts
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Writing Scripts by Hand While Brics
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RESUME This command resumes a pause
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CHAPTER 21 Programming with LISP Wh
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Additional LISP Functions LISP cont
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5. The parentheses serve a second p
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4. Redo the Circle and Array comman
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The Intersection of Two Lines The i
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This (and some other functions) use
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Command Function Limitation But the
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SELECTION SET FUNCTIONS To work wit
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It would be a useful lesson to use
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Try this out at the ‘:’ prompt:
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Local and Global Variables - / ( /
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8. And to extract the z-coordinate,
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17. Run the routine, and respond to
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Step 3: Close the File Finally, for
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Tip #2: Loading LSP Code into Brics
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Tip #7: Tabs and Quotation Marks Vi
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CHAPTER 22 Designing Dialog Boxes w
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Applications written in LISP, SDS,
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LastAngle — stores the angle defi
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Because dialog boxes can have multi
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Important: Ensure that this DCL fil
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TIP ebook: Text tiles can have the
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CLUSTERING TEXT Hmmm... the two pie
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Add the code to the xx.lsp, and the
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lastInput: dialog { label = "Last I
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To indicate that the button opens a
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In Linux, remember to remove the
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TIP The $value retrieved by get_til
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;; See which radio button the user
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But these eight can be reduced to t
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Special Tiles for Radio Buttons You
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Additional Resources There is more
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CHAPTER 23 Dabbling in VBA The Pro
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Introduction to VBA VBA is the seco
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later in this chapter, but for now
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5. You now have enough code to exec
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Adjacent to the form is the Toolbox
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We will look at the code-dialog box
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• Is is read-only, which means pr
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Dialog Box with Code In an earlier
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6. To add the prompt, use the Label
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. From the shortcut menu, choose Ri
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4. Well, that’s not quite all. Yo
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Option Explicit Private Sub txtLast
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QUICK SUMMARY OF VBA DATA TYPES Dat
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As declares the data type of the ar
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sPt = sPt & StringFromValueFixedDec
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1. Start BricsCAD. 2. From the Tool
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PART IV Appendices
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APPENDIX A Command Summary This app
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AttRedef redefines blocks and updat
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Color and -Color specifies the colo
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DimRadius dimensions the radii of a
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Extend extends entities to bounding
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J Join joins lines, lwpolylines, 2D
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Offset offsets linear entities in p
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Region converts an entity enclosing
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SvgOptions controls the output as S
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ViewRes sets the view resolution an
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APPENDIX B System Variables and Set
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System Variable Name Saved As Ready
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APPENDIX C Concise DCL Reference DC
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QUICK REFERENCE OF DCL ATTRIBUTES a
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Summary of Tile Reference This appe
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TIP You can change the dialog box
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MNEMONIC The mnemonic attribute und
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In the table below, the black areas
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RADIO_BUTTON The radio_button tile
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By default, BricsCAD stacks radio b
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tribute — but not both. Similarly
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PASSWORD_CHAR When the edit box is
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To specify tabs in the text of the
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POPUP_LIST The popup_list tile disp
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} height = number; width = number;
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HEIGHT The height attribute specifi
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FIXED_HEIGHT & FIXED WIDTH The fixe
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SPACER_1 The spacer_1 tile defines
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COLUMN The column tile defines a ve
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ROW & BOXED_ROW The row and boxed_r
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LOAD_DIALOG The load_dialog functio
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SET_TILE The set_tile function sets
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This function returns the name of t
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Number Meaning -2 Current backgroun
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DIALOG BOXES DISPLAYED BY LISP FUNC
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APPENDIX D Concise LISP Reference T
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(ascii) Converts the first characte
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(end_list) Ends the processing of a
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(getint) Prompts the user to enter
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(member) Identifies the first occur
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(reverse) Returns a copy of a list
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(tan) Returns the tangent of x - x
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(/=) Compares arguments for inequal
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