Topic: custom tools on custom palettes-help!

[CottageCGirl]

currently we use a custom toolbar with custom buttons to create lines of specified color/thickness/linetype on a drawing template with established layers-and have worked well for our uses
(we use it to designate color/paper on a paint plan for contractors)

they look like this
^C^C-LAYER;S;CP-PT-CH1_7;;^C^CPLINE;\W;3;3;

I have created a custom pallette with these custom tools -and they work great.

However.....
we also have two buttons:
w;0;3;
w;3;0;
and on the toolbar, you click one of these, then immediately the line you want and you basically get a line that you can point at things.

when I put this on the palette, I get the "write block" dialog box
Help
I think I know what is wrong, but don't know how it fix it.....
As Mr. Miagi says -a grape in the middle of the road gets squashed...

[SMadsen]

Don't you get the same result when calling one of the two latter buttons from the toolbar?

They seem to be designed to be issued in the midst of a PLINE command. If clicked in a non-command mode, they'll merely call the WBLOCK command.

[CottageCGirl]

yes you get the same result by clicking the latter buttons- but only if you had previously used the line you wanted. when you want to change -say from a red line to a black dash, you must select the 0-3 then select the black dash or it will revert to red (for example....)

They seem to be designed to be issued in the midst of a PLINE command. If clicked in a non-command mode, they'll merely call the WBLOCK command.

yes, that is the issue --can I use the palette tools like that?

PS: gotta go for the day, so if I don't reply till tomorrow-dont take it personally--thanks SM!