Hi everyone,
We just upgraded to Wildfire from 2001 and I am in the process of upgrading our mapkeys ... what fun!
The major trouble I am having is anywhere there is a dialog box with a pull down menu. The pick from the menu shows up in the mapkey as the sequence number of the pick. This cause problems when different users have a different number or order of items in the pull down menu.
In other words if "Current Session" is picked from the "Tools / Options" dialog box when there is only one config.pro loaded then the pick is mapped as item "5" (see F1 below). Since "Current Session" is always the last item in the list, if a config.sup is also loaded then the pick number becomes "6" (see F2 below).
mapkey $F1 ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `Utilities`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `Utilities.psh_util_pref`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `preferences` `InputOpt`;~ Open `preferences` `DisplayOpt`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `preferences` `DisplayOpt`;~ Select `preferences` `DisplayOpt`1 `5`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `preferences` `InputOpt`;
mapkey $F2 ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `Utilities`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `Utilities.psh_util_pref`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `preferences` `InputOpt`;~ Open `preferences` `DisplayOpt`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `preferences` `DisplayOpt`;~ Select `preferences` `DisplayOpt`1 `6`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ FocusOut `preferences` `InputOpt`;
I have the exact same problem with the "File / Page Setup / Format / Browse" selection. The "Browse" selection (number 12 in F3 below) is dependant on how many custom formats are in session.
mapkey $F3 ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `File`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `File.psh_page_setup`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `pagesetup` `TblFormats`2 `1` `fmt`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Open `pagesetup` `TblFormats_INPUT`;~ Close `pagesetup` `TblFormats_INPUT`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `pagesetup` `TblFormats_INPUT`1 `12`;~ Activate `file_open` `Open`;\
I have noticed that the format problem has been solved in WF2 (they actually map to the text name but this does not work WF1 .. the config file is still a problem).
Does anyone have any solutions?
With all this loss in advanced functionality they will have to call the next release "Pro/Solidworks" (I am not making a derogatory comment on SW here. I have used both. For the work I do the only reason I do not do everything is SW is the loss of automation I have [or used to have] in Pro/E).
Thanks
Kevin Brault
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