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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
- 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
- Migrate and Transfer Custom Settings and Files
- Index
A new command (named Command1) is displayed in both the Command
List pane and the Properties pane.
3 In the Properties pane, do the following:
■ In the Name box, enter a name for the command. The name is
displayed as a tooltip or menu name when the command is added to
a user interface element.
■ In the Description box, enter a description for the command. The
description will be displayed on the status bar or in a tooltip. When
the cursor hovers over the command on a menu, the description is
displayed on the status bar while if it is on a toolbar or ribbon panel
it is displayed in a tooltip.
■ In the Extended Help File box, enter the name of the file and ID to
use for the extended help for the command.
■ In the Command Display Name box, enter the name of the command
that you want to display for the command.
■ In the Macro box, enter a macro for the command.
■ In the Tags box, enter the tags you want to use when searching for
commands in the Search field of the application menu.
■ In the Element ID box, enter an element ID for the command.
For information about adding button images to a command, see
Create
Custom Images for Commands
on page 184.
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