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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basic Customization
- Overview of Customization
- Organize Program and Support Files
- Customize a Publish to Web Template
- Define Custom Commands
- Record and Modify Action Macros
- Custom Linetypes
- Custom Hatch Patterns
- User Interface Customization
- Understand User Interface Customization
- Work with the Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor
- Create and Manage Customization Files
- Customize Commands
- Overview of Commands
- Create, Edit, and Reuse Commands
- Create Macros
- Overview of Macros
- Use Special Control Characters in Macros
- Pause for User Input in Macros
- Provide International Support in Macros
- Use Built-in Commands in Macros
- Repeat Commands in Macros
- Use Single Object Selection Mode in Macros
- Use Macros to Swap User Interface Elements
- Use Conditional Expressions in Macros
- Use AutoLISP in Macros
- Control the Display of Command Items
- Assign Search Tags
- Create Tooltips and Extended Help for Commands
- Create Status Line Help Messages
- Assign, Create, and Manage Images for Commands
- Customize User Interface Elements
- Load an AutoLISP File
- Customize Workspaces
- Transfer and Migrate Customization
- Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor FAQs
- DIESEL
- Slides and Command Scripts
- Introduction to Programming Interfaces
- Shapes and Shape Fonts
- Overview of Shape Files
- Create Shape Definition Files
- Shape Descriptions
- Vector Length and Direction Code
- Special Codes
- Use Special Codes
- Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
- Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
- Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
- Code 7: Subshape
- Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
- Code 00A: Octant Arc
- Code 00B: Fractional Arc
- Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs
- Code 00E: Flag Vertical Text Command
- Text Font Descriptions
- Sample Files
- Big Font Descriptions
- Unicode Font Descriptions
- Superscripts and Subscripts in SHX Files
- Index
Edit Screen Menu Properties
You can modify screen menu properties, as shown in the following table.
Properties for screen menus
ExampleDescriptionProperties
pane item
SCREENSets the name of the menu.Name
Text that describes the element; does
not appear in the user interface.
Description
1Sets the start line of the screen menu
submenu.
Start line
26Sets the number of lines in a screen
submenu.
Number of lines
SCREEN, SSpecifies the alias for the screen
menu. “Collection” is displayed if
Aliases
multiple definitions are assigned to
this alias. Click the [ ] button to open
the Aliases dialog box.
For the AutoCAD screen menu, which is the root menu, the aliases in the
Aliases box are Screen (which represents the beginning of the screen menu)
and S (which represents the submenu section label). Line assignments for
other menus define the order of the options on the menu. For example, the
File menu on Line 3 in the tree view of the AutoCAD screen menu is in the
third position on the AutoCAD screen menu.
The submenu names in the tree view correspond to the name of the first
submenu item. For example, the New submenu contains commands such as
OPEN, QSAVE, and SAVEAS—in addition to NEW. The Aliases box for these
submenus defines which menu contains them and the Start Line box specifies
their position on that menu. The New submenu is displayed in position 3 on
the File screen menu. Therefore, in the Properties pane, its start line is 3. When
you double-click Aliases to display the Aliases dialog box, you can see that its
menu assignment is 01_FILE.
You can designate which menu items are always displayed by controlling the
start line settings. For example, since the New submenu is set to start on line
3, the menu items on lines 1 and 2 of the AutoCAD screen menu (the AutoCAD
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