Topic: Changed Setting...

[hudster]

This is doing my nut in.

My settings have been altered and I can't get them back.

I used to click on items and the grips would show, I could then click on erase and the selected items would be erased.

Now when i do this it cancels my selection and I have to pick the items again.

anyone know how to change this back to my preferred setting?

[hendie]

pickfirst ?

[hudster]

nope, tried that one first.

also tried pickauto, pickadd, and pickstyle.

[hendie]

verb/noun selection ?

[CADaver]

Setver GRIPS=1?

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Noun/Verb changes the PICKFIRST Setvar, and that should be set to 1, and that "should" solve the problem but you say you've checked that.

[hudster]

Nope that aint it either.

[M-dub]

I doubt it, but is it HIGHLIGHT?

[CADaver]

Ifn' it ain't PICKFIRST=1, sumthen's broke.

[M-dub]

I think you're right, but....WHAT?

[CADaver]

dunno, maybe a reactor setting it back???

[hudster]

it only does this with the macro button commands.

when i select an object and type e on the keyboard it erases it.

This is getting weird.

[M-dub]

Just a question, but would the ^C^C at the beginning have anything to do with it?

....IF it exists in your macro, that is...

[CADaver]

Post the macro

[hudster]

here is the copy macro.

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$M=$(if,$(eq,$(substr,$(getvar,cmdnames),1,4),grip),_copy,^C^C_copy)

Thing is it worked before, just not now.

I'm hoping I won't have to re-install autocad

[M-dub]

Well, it seemed to work for me.  What exactly do you do when you experience the problem?

Select a line (or other object)
THEN select the button?

It worked for me...well, it made a single copy, anyway.

[hudster]

yip, I select the line so the grips are showing, then click button.

the I get a cancel message on the command  line and i have to reselect the line to erase.

It's a real pain, cause i'm used to working the other way and when i'm concentracting i forget to click the button before the objects.

It does this with everything, copy, erase, layiso, etc.
But not if I enter the command from the keyboard, then it works fine.

[M-dub]

That's really weird.  I don't know what it could be.
Could you try adding a new custom button and just add _ERASE as the macro instead of ^C^C_Erase.  I don't know if it will make a difference, but it might be worth a try, anyway.

[CADaver]

Works fine here, unless PICKFIRST=0.

[hudster]

tried the new macro button with _erase;

no joy, cancel came up first.  Looks like an unistall is required.

[M-dub]

Hey, Hud...
Can you check AND CHANGE the Pickfirst variable?  I'm wondering if it's somehow read-only or....something...

[rktect3j]

Maybe this sounds too simple but have you tried restarting your computer.  Sometimes, I get commands that don't sem to work right so I turn the puter off and on again and all is right in the world.

[CADaver]

tried the new macro button with _erase;

no joy, cancel came up first.  Looks like an unistall is required.

First be SURE you don't have some odd-ball reactor running or something, or a redefined copy command.

[ronjonp]

Off subject, but....What does the _ before the command do?

[hudster]

have you tried restarting your computer.

That is exactly what our IT support always say.  I think it gives them time to think of something.
Even I say that now when someones asks me a question.

how can I check what reactors are running?

I have a feeling it was a trial hatch creation program I ran yesterday.
Everything worked fine until I tried that program, now this.

I also restored a previous profile, but I still get the same issue.

[MikePerry]

Off subject, but....What does the _ before the command do?

Hi

Below comes from Stig Madsen (posted today) via the AUGI LISP Forum -

Quote:
Originally Posted by todd.mackay
Sorry to intervene, but what is the difference between "._Circle" and "_Circle" - Also, what does "_Non" do in that same example?


Ever worked with a German localized version of AutoCAD?

Befehl: KREIS
3P/2P/TTR/<Mittelpunkt>: Keiner von ... etc.

"KREIS" is the German CIRCLE command and "Keiner" is the None object snap. Because there are numerous localized versions out there, AutoCAD provides a way to override localized names. This is done by prefixing the native command name with an underscore. By using, say, "_CIRCLE" in an AutoLISP routine (or menumacro or VBA macro) you ensure that it will invoke the CIRCLE command no matter which localized version is being used (same thing with subcommands and object snaps such as "_none").

The dot prefix - or period - is for accessing the original command in case a command has been redefined.

A hyphen will invoke the command line version of an otherwise dialog-based command (if a command line version exists).

So, to invoke the original command line version of a LAYER command - independent of localized versions - you could use the form "._-LAYER"

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Have a good one, Mike