Topic: Tool Palette view options

[hudster]

Does anyone know how to set the view options for a tool palette without setting it via the right click option?

i have set up standard tool palettes, with each service having a separate folder, but when i switch palettes the view options always revert to the defaults.
 
It's a bit of a pain.

[BAshworth]

Have you applied the view settings to all tabs? (it's an option under the view dialog)

Are these palettes located in a read-only folder?  If it is, when you change the view setting, it won't be able to resave the palette definition.  When you change the workspace, or change the tab, it may be reloading the palette definition that isn't reflecting your chagnes.

[hudster]

Yeah i did the view options on every palette, and changed them all to read only, but i've created a menu driven palette system that autoloads palettes depending on what service you require, only problem is that the view options revert back to the default options every time you load a different set of palettes.

[BAshworth]

Did you set them to read only after or before you changed your view settings?  Are you sure that your loader is pulling the palettes from the same location that it's saving them?

ex..  our palettes load in from c:\Program Files\TCS2006\Standards\Palettes

However, any changes or custom made palettes wind up in MyDocuments\AutoCAD

If your loader isn't looking for them there, then it's loading old definitions.

[hudster]

the menu I created changes the tool palette path depending n what service you require, using this command

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^C^CToolPalettesClose;*_toolpalettepath;"R:/DWG/AIDS/BLOCKS/Palettes/elec";ToolPalettes
i tried making it read only before and after calling it, with no change.

Surely there must be a variable or command to set the palette view?

[BAshworth]

the menu I created changes the tool palette path depending n what service you require, using this command

Code: [Select]

^C^CToolPalettesClose;*_toolpalettepath;"R:/DWG/AIDS/BLOCKS/Palettes/elec";ToolPalettes
i tried making it read only before and after calling it, with no change.

Surely there must be a variable or command to set the palette view?

Not unless you're working with 2008.

Tool palettes were given no further options from the command line than on or off prior to 2008.

That will set the current path to load them from, however, make a new palette, or change one of your current palettes.  Now go to your MyDocuments\Autocad directory and see if anything is in there.

[hudster]

mydocuments\autocad doesn't exist as a folder. (even checked in case it was hidden).