Toolpalettes issues
2 Questions
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Is there a way to link what toolpalette group is active depending on the Profile or even the Workspace ?
Because if there is, I'm not finding it.
The reason I ask is that I'm trying to set up a profile or workspace so that it becomes a no-brainer for certain colleagues about what's all available (toolbars and such). It would be great if that also included it switching to a different toolpalette group.
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In worst case I was thinking about making a macro that would switch to the wanted toolpalette group. I would think that TPNAVIGATE should be able to do that but I can't even make it work on the commandline.
All I get is
Specify tool palette to display or [palette Group]:
and no matter what I type in the result is
Unable to find a palette or group by that name
Perhaps it's because it's friday but if I have a palette called 'Test' and a palette group called 'Test_1' then how can I use the TPNAVIGATE command to make it switch to the palette group ?
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(COMMAND "._TPNAVIGATE" "test") works for me here.
However I cannot get it to accept a group name.
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#1
Look at the 'On Switch' nodes on the 'Wokspaces' tab of the _Customize dialog.#2
To enter a group name first enter "g" (but not "group"). The square brackets are there for a reason...BTW:
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I use toolpalettes regularly and have groups set up, I swap between them using macro's on the toolpalette to swap groups you need to use the letter "g" for group.^C^C._tpnavigate;g;test;0 -
: TPNAVIGATE Specify tool palette to display or [palette Group]: G Specify palette group to display: Test Unable to find a palette or group by that name
After further review, it does actually change to this group, despite the error message displayed.
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Thank you @Roy Klein Gebbinck and @Steven_g to point that one has to use 'g' to be able to specify group.
And yes that works.
@rkmcswain
That's my experience as well. It works but there's no clean exit. Instead one is left with "Unable to find a palette or group by that name" even although it did change to the desired Toolpalette group.I then tried not only to specify the group but also a palette in the group but even then I still got 'Unable to find a palette or group by that name'
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IMO the prompt "Unable to find a palette or group by that name" is confusing. It suggests you do not need to first enter "g" for a group. I also wonder what would happen if there is a toolpalette name "g"...
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Neither ";" nor "^C^C" seems to work.
That can't be right.If one uses TPNAVIGATE in a macro there should be a way to exit it without additional keyboard input by the users.
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And does this work, usually if a dialogue hangs it needs an extra ";" to close it down
^C^C._tpnavigate;g;test;;0
