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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
2 Do one of the following:
■ Click Tabs, and click the ribbon tab to display or hide.
■ Click Panels, and click the ribbon panel to display or hide.
To display palettes from the user interface
Do one of the following:
■ On the ribbon, View tab ➤ Palettes panel, and click the buttons to display
the desired palette.
■ On the menu bar, click Tools menu ➤ Palettes, and click the desired
palette.
■ At the Command prompt, enter the command to display the desired
palette and press Enter.
Quick Reference
Commands
CUI
Manages the customized user interface elements in the product.
System Variables
MENUBAR
Controls the display of the menu bar.
Control User Interface Elements in the CUI Editor
The Customize User Interface (CUI) Editor provides a wide range of options
to create and modify all the content that can be displayed with a workspaces.
With the CUI Editor, you can customize the following user interface elements
with a workspace:
■ Application and drawing windows
■ Quick Access toolbar
■ Ribbon tabs
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