Pick drag

Tom Foster

In Settings>Entity selection>Pick drag, it keeps on re-setting from [0] Draw selection window using two points, to [1] Draw selection window using dragging. This is annoying. Is there some key combination I'm inadvertently doing? Is there some way to set this without going to Settings?

Anthony Apostolaros

I don't know of any key combination that would do that, though there might be one that I don't know of.

You might possibly have a custom command that changes the PICKDRAG variable without telling you.
Did you install any new custom commands at about the time this problem started?

To avoid opening the Settings dialog, you can use the following custom command to toggle PICKDRAG on or off:
[code](defun c:PD ()
(if (equal (getvar "PICKDRAG") 0)
(setvar "PICKDRAG" 1)
(setvar "PICKDRAG" 0)
)
)[/code]

...or, to set it to 0 no matter what it was before:
[code](defun c:PD () (setvar "PICKDRAG" 0) )[/code]

You can change PD in that code to whatever you want to use to invoke the command.

Tom Foster

Thanks - nothing Custom - this is Trial version.

It keeps on resetting itself av once an hour - very irritating. Any comment, Brics?

Jason Bourhill

Seems a bit strange. installation default for PICKDRAG is set to 0. PICKDRAG is saved to registry with your profile settings. Two things you could try:

1. Set PICKDRAG = 0. Having done this close BricsCAD down, then restart. BricsCAD doesn't commit changes to registry until you close it down. If you crash, or run an operation like U/UNDO, then your changes would be lost.
2. Create a new profile, and see whether the problem persists.
   

Regards, Jason Bourhill CAD Concepts 

Tom Foster

Thanks Jason - and I see your website - looks like a gd resource.

Bit puzzled - you say U-Undo loses changes I've made to Registry? That means all the time - I use Ctrl+Z a lot which according to Help is identical.

In Create a new profile, what do I have to do to configure that profile, once it's created? I thought a new Profile captures BricsCAD's current Settings - but you're creating the profile without BricsCAD being open?

In my OP I said 'Is there some key combination I'm inadvertently doing? Is there some way to set this without going to Settings?'. I see the 'key combination' is PICKD>Enter>1. I couldn't have done that inadveterntly - but PICKD>Enter>0 resets it without going to Settings.