Thanks Glenn. I was thinking more of the people who might read this thread and think "What the heck is a HotKeys?"
What the heck is a HotKey Chuck?
AsdkHotKeys.arx is (and HotKeys.dll hopefully eventually will be) an ObjectARX application that allows users to assign actions to keystroke combinations in AutoCAD. The main thing that sets it apart from standard AutoCAD keyboard accelerators is that it allows you to use the ALT key in your key combinations. It has a couple of other unusual features that were actually requested by users (otherwise I would never have believed anyone would have wanted those features).
I wrote it for my own use, but then decided to give it away as a way of saying thanks to all the people in forums like this that had helped me learn what I needed to know to write it.
The original application was written in C++, which made it impractical for me to update it for new versions of AutoCAD, since I have not upgraded since 2000i. Fortunately, when Autodesk forced developers to upgrade to Visual Studio 2002 Glenn R. generously offered to update the program for AutoCAD 2004. That version continued to be usable through AutoCAD 2006 (or so I am told), but then Autodesk decided that it was again time to force developers to upgrade to Microsoft's latest development environment. The managed API (and the free tools available to code for it) presented an opportunity for me to
try to update the program myself without having to purchase any expensive development tools. Unfortunately, I still can't test the application myself (AutoCAD 2000i).
Aren't you glad you asked?
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