Topic: Begin command without pressing ENTER or SPACE BAR

[Guest]

Some of the power-users 'round here have been thinking about ways to speed things up and one idea was to automatically start a command WITHOUT having to press ENTER or the SPACE BAR.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm thinking reactors, but I suck with reactors.  Also, the command would be a LSP proggy and the user would be able to customize which key to press using the ACAD.PGP file.

For example: To start the LINE command, you press L then ENTER.  What if you only had to press L and AutoCAD would automatically fire up the line command?

[TimSpangler]

What if you only had to press L and AutoCAD would automatically fire up the line command?

Man that would take some getting used to!! :ugly:

The left side of my spacebar is polished from the thumb taps.

That does sound like a good idea, but like you I know absolutley nil about reactors.

I'll be watching..............

[Guest]

What if you only had to press L and AutoCAD would automatically fire up the line command?

Man that would take some getting used to!! :ugly:

The left side of my spacebar is polished from the thumb taps.

That does sound like a good idea, but like you I know absolutley nil about reactors.

I'll be watching..............

It does take some getting used to.  Visual Lighting and Revit are like that - a few keystrokes and *poof* you're magically whisked away into a command!!

[hardwired]

The trouble i see with that is what if the user types PL for polyline?

Either it will initiate the PAN command and get stuck there or when the user presses the L of PL it initiates the LINE command. I'm thinking that it why we have to press ENTER, as some commands are more than one letter..

Of course, if they can set-up their own shortcuts in the PGP file, then thats cool, but that would be seriously faffy..

I get what you mean, and i don't know much about reactors either so i guess i can be done, but i thought i'd say my peice, lol

[M-dub]

I was going to make the same point as Hardwired.

Does it really take that long to get to the spacebar or Enter key?  How big is their keyboard? 

[Maverick®]

For example: To start the LINE command, you press L then ENTER. 

Softplan is this way.  All keyboard shortcuts are fully customizable as well.  Fer instance on mine.... "e" is erase, ctrl "e" is block erase, shift "e" is block cut, etc. etc.

But then Softplan doesn't have a command line interface at all so .....

[M-dub]

Block Cut... that rings a bell... a school bell.  I haven't used Softplan since I was in high scool.  Kinda wish I had it at home nowadays. 

[TimSpangler]

How big is their keyboard? 

I don't think you're allowed to ask that  

[FengK]

Some of the power-users 'round here have been thinking about ways to speed things up and one idea was to automatically start a command WITHOUT having to press ENTER or the SPACE BAR.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm thinking reactors, but I suck with reactors.  Also, the command would be a LSP proggy and the user would be able to customize which key to press using the ACAD.PGP file.

I'm guessing command reactor won't work because the event is triggered probably only when SPACE or ENTER is pressed. It is going to be tough, and I'm not sure if it is a good idea.

[T.Willey]

From a quick check of the reactors I don't see one.  I don't see how you would do it with the reactors provided, but I could be wrong.  I don't like the idea either, but could be fun to see how to get it to work.

[M-dub]

What about using mouse gestures?

[Guest]

What about using mouse gestures?

 

[quamper]

I don't know about single keystroke entry without space or enter.. but you could do something where you bound your lisp routine to an unused key on the keyboard that then it would accept various other keys...

so something like one of the following?

Shift+M & L
F1 + L

so it wouldn't technically require space or enter

personally I prefer the typing the command and right-click being as I'm a lefty

[M-dub]

What about using mouse gestures?

 

http://www.answers.com/mouse+gestures?cat=technology

To start...

[Guest]

I don't know about single keystroke entry without space or enter.. but you could do something where you bound your lisp routine to an unused key on the keyboard that then it would accept various other keys...

so something like one of the following?

Shift+M & L
F1 + L

so it wouldn't technically require space or enter

personally I prefer the typing the command and right-click being as I'm a lefty

Are you referring to the PGP file?